to suggest to women that they deserve dominance instead of equality is at best a cheap applause line

It's more than that. It's a bone being thrown to the usual NAGs who insist on a little payback for all the centuries of oppression women lived under.

It's also Teh Won's re-election strategy: divide up the voters into blocks, then throw enough bones to get enough blocks to vote for him. It isn't like he wants to run on his record of accomplishments.

You see this everywhere. Men just can't deal without condescending. I think it's just part of their/our genetic makeup so I try to ignore it.

What's funny is to see someone make "sexist" comment on a special interest forum, see some of the other guys take great offense, while the women totally stay out of it. I'm not offended and it's a useless exercise anyway.

Similarly I don't need that "women are smarter" bs either.

He's not the only one who is paternalistic to women. I've thought for awhile that many women's rights groups do the same thing.

"Men just can't deal without condescending."

Heh. Irony!

Fine, but I thought the comments at the NY Times were pretty thoughtful too - such as one or two that pointed out that when you're poor, getting a job isn't the only thing you're likely to be seriously worried about, so a politician who isn't friendly to Planned Parenthood IS cause for concern. Quote from commentator (maybe not verbatim): "I'll take condescension over oppression any day."

I have a feeling the Obama campaign is feeling the strain to get him re-elected:

From the Blaze:

Two weeks ago, a federal inmate in Texas — Keith Judd — earned 41 percent of the vote in West Virginia’s Democratic primary.

In Kentucky’s closed primary, about 42 percent of registered Democrats who voted selected “uncommitted.” (on 5/23/12)

In Arkansas’ open primary, voters could select a ballot for either party. Early returns showed a Tennessee attorney, John Wolfe, drawing about 40 percent on the Democratic side. (on 5/23/12)

Yes, I know that you are saying it is Glenn Beck propaganda. But somehow I didn't hear a single word on the Today show about the any of the primary election results from last night. Granted that Romney now has a "lock" on the the Republican side. When there is no (none, nada, zilch, zero) reporting of either side's results of primary elections results tells me someone is trying to not say anything or hide something.

When the incumbent president is getting 60% or less of the party's vote I question the party's confidence in him.

> Men just can't deal without condescending. I
> think it's just part of their/our genetic
> makeup so I try to ignore it.

You should have some fun, and shoot guys down when they do that. It would be entertaining.

Seriously. I don't think you're wrong, or exaggerating, or being oversensitive. Quite the reverse. A lot of things in genetic makeup deserve to be overpowered by civilization.

Feminism is a work in progress; we aren't done. I actually think the larger part of the effort still ahead of us is in making women understand the hazards of feminine nature... But that doesn't mean masculinity is perfectly-tuned, either.

There are a lot of problems with this article... But I believe this kind of thing is still being printed in 2012 for some good reason.

(Not just that Auletta is trying to be hip in the way that was so impressive to women when he was a younger man.)

Neither masculinity nor femininity is the default human condition, and every man and every woman ought to be humble enough to understand that.

Moar

Beyond the obvious fact that Obama is a narcissist who will say anything to remain in the spotlight, I suspect that in this case, he's also playing to the home crowd, so to speak.

One of the weirdest things that came out last election is how detached Obama is from his family and how nasty Michelle was in her comments about her husband; I got the distinct feeling that she doesn't like him much, but he was gaining power and wealth and so she put up with him. I predict divorce post presidency.