Posted on 08/03/08
Learning to love the gender gap
THE SEXUAL PARADOXExtreme Men, Gifted Women, and the Real Gender GapBy Susan PinkerRandom House Canada,346 pages, $34.95Last weekend, the Washington Post ran a column headlined "We Scream, We Swoon. How Dumb Can We Get?" by Charlotte Allen, which argued that women are the stupid sex. Obamamania, Oprahphilia and Hillary's campaign gaffes were proof that dames are dizzy. The paper was promptly castigated in furious letters and scads of angry blog posts. The hullabaloo got so loud that an editor even offered a lame defence, saying the piece was "tongue-in-cheek." Can't you twitterpated gals take a joke?
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