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...Peninsula have not a clue what being a real woman in the '90s means. (And yet, like Boyle, Mayo seems to suggest that he does know.) Only two of our winners "have actually done something new since the Eisenhower administration," says Mayo. The four highlighted women--"a columnist, a future saint, a dead white woman, and group of women who revere a dead white cause"--represent nothing but the "humble, selfless, obedient woman." Mayo seems to prefer the woman whom feminists these days dress up in the flashier attire of pride, control and power...
Maggie Gallagher, a conservative columnist for New York Newsday and National Review, is the next subject of Mayo's derision. Since Gallagher holds something of the positions of power that feminists subscribe for women, Mayo doesn't have much to say here--so he makes something up. Quoting from my summary of Gallagher, Mayo writes, "Maggie Gallagher, a conservative columnist, believes that `women need the support of men...and it is only within the commitment of marriage that this support is guaranteed.'" Unfortunately, the sentence actually read, "Because of their desires, women need the support of men (as men need...
...article in New York magazine, street-smart liberal columnist Pete Hamill asserts that homelessness is a public-health problem spawned by "drunks, crackheads or crazies," not a housing problem. "In a health crisis," Hamill contends, "the rights of the community must take precedence over the rights of an individual: your freedom ends at my lung." (Hamill did not mention in the story that he battled tuberculosis a few years ago and may have contracted it from a homeless person, though he has spoken publicly of his TB in the past.) Calling for "tough-love" solutions, Hamill offers a startling proposal...
Peninsula, Harvard's bastion of Truth, Justice and Femininity has just named this season's Women of the Year. And what women they are--a conservative columnist, a future saint, a dead white woman and a whole group of women who revere a dead white cause...
...other two winners have actually done something new since the Eisenhower administration. Maggie Gallagher, a conservative columnist, believes that "women need the support of men...and it is only within the committment of marriage that this support is guaranteed...