Where is the outrage?
I’ve been reading, in stories and letters to the editor, that “we need a woman in Congress,” and that’s why Niki Tsongas should get your vote on Tuesday to replace Marty Meehan in the Fifth District.
And why do we need a woman? It can’t be because of a need for any real diversity. This is a woman who is going to think and vote pretty much like the man who held the office previously, and pretty much like all the other male Democratic congressmen and senators from Massachusetts.
So, according to her gender-focused supporters, it is because the male-dominated government has messed up No Child Left Behind and the health care system and given us an “endless” war. And because if women ran the show, they would do so much better in these areas than men.
Maybe so. But, wait a minute. Didn’t former Harvard University president Larry Summers get fired for suggesting – just suggesting – that the reason there were more men in at the top of the hard sciences might – just might – have something to do with gender? The mere suggestion, loaded with caveats, that men might do one thing better than women was enough to give one female professor in the audience such a strong case of the vapors that she had to leave. And, Summers was doomed for violating one of the core commandments of political correctness: Thou shalt never say a man is better than a woman at ANYTHING.
But, here we are in the final days of a political campaign, featuring outright declarations that women are better than men at multiple things.
Where is the outrage?
