Poor Maureen

In typical Maureen Dowd fashion, her column in today's New York Times once again bemoans the pitiful plight of women in today's world.

Ah, yes. There is no doubt but that American womanhood is the most aggrieved, persecuted, down-trodden demographic in Western history, and never mind that they form a majority in this country and can dominate national elections, that they have much greater longevity than males and end up inheriting a majority of the country's wealth, that they attend college in greater numbers than males, that they wish to interpret fertility as a disease for insurance purposes, that they are given affirmative action benefits in some of the most incongruous places, and that they have shown themselves willing to produce large numbers of children while lacking husbands.

There is one benefit however that I want to extend, not to women in general (my favorite people), but to feminists, which is to say the right to serve on the front lines in military combat. Think of the joy that would accrue to women like this columnist, empowered to slaughter as many males as might arrive within mortar shot..

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/opinion/sunday/dowd-what-would-jesus-do-at-the-masters.html?_r=1&hp