On being against the soft bigotry of affirmative action for women

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Much brouhaha has been made about Helen Andrews’s Compact essay on “the Great Feminization” of the upper echelons of American society. Arguably, too much brouhaha, and most of it backlash. Andrews’s thesis — that critical masses of female dominance in industries from academia to journalism have resulted in a rigging of the rules away from meritocratic principles and toward pure pathos — does not actually criticize gender parity in the workplace or individual women.