Holding feminists to their own objectionable standards is a worthy pursuit. Disingenuously embracing those standards is not.

Sen. Cory Booker’s, D-N.J., pompous, self-satisfied rant at Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen during her testimony on Capitol Hill this week was rightfully held up as an example of behavior progressive feminists would refer to as “mansplaining” – obnoxiously and arrogantly condescending to a qualified woman. The point of doing so, of course, is to illustrate how feminists (some of whom celebrated Booker’s exchange with Nielsen) administer charges of mansplaining selectively, only when the beneficiaries of those complaints are their ideological comrades.