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Different But Equal

Jim Pinkerton looks at Maureen Dowd's lastest book, Are Men Necessary? and while he starts out good, he goes astray. I think one area that Feminism went astray was the outlook that equality meant sameness, and so the way to be equal to men was to be the same. I'm all for equality, but that doesn't mean sameness. Different but equal makes perfect sense to me. And so it seems to me that when women try to compete sexually as if they were men, macho men, disaster strikes. That's the direction mainstream Feminism took and got the pants beat off them, and I do mean that literally. I know men tend to be protrayed as idiots by the media, but it is the height of folly to think that women can try to out masculine the most masculine of men.

And so Jim's right that Hef is laughing and Maureen is crying, but it isn't because Men hold all the cards and always have; it's because Maureen tried to beat Hef at his own game.