The
other day I was discussing the women's suffrage movement with my
daughter. When she asked why women couldn't vote in the past, I cited a
number of reasons, including the fact that many people thought women
were too emotional and less intelligent than men, and therefore
couldn't be entrusted to make good decisions. She looked dumbfounded,
and asked, "Well, since the women knew that wasn't true, why didn't
they just take over?" That led to another involved discussion, and it
came up that some women also bought the stereotypes about themselves.
Hey, and then the next day the Washington Post printed this idiotic thing on how women are dumber than men.
You may have heard that the Outlook editor John Pomfret says the piece of crap was intended to be "tongue-in-cheek."
I dunno...
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