We’ve read some dumb and substandard political pieces in our day—we may even have generated some—but a June 10 piece in the Washington Post is a strong contender for Dumbest Op-Ed Ever Written. The article, by Suzanna Danuta Walters—according to her byline a “professor of sociology and director of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Northeastern University” and “editor of the gender studies journal Signs”—is headlined “Why Can’t We Hate Men?”
The question is rhetorical. She can and does hate men, judging from her contribution to the Post. Walters’s reasoning goes something like this: Although it’s true that not every male on earth is a bad person, she doesn’t like to hear feminists qualify their arguments with the statement that all men aren’t bad. Why? Because most men are really really terrible.
Or something like that. Anyway, we’ll spare readers the trouble and skip to the end:
You may wonder how the professor’s demand that men step aside and let women win—a demand premised, isn’t it, on the surely anathema supposition that men are stronger?—is supposed to further the cause of feminism. If so, that’s because you’re not a tenured academic and director of a Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program.
