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Conversation about this decision, specifically for girls graduating from top universities, has occupied much media attention—most notably New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd??as female Ivy League alums are accused of “opting out” of high-powered career jobs in favor of housewifery. These women are lambasted by many for selfishly casting aside the hard-earned rewards of the feminist movement—namely, unprecedented educational and job opportunities...
...recent rebirth of girls’ clubs by making chats over pancakes and stories on the sidewalk suddenly cool. Each woman faced her own problems—mostly men, marriage, and Manolos—but throughout the series the foursome managed to solve them together, testosterone free. Maybe Maureen Dowd??s latest book proposes a question more credible than critics believe: are men really necessary? I mean, now that we have our own social space and can already artificially inseminate, why don’t we just bag the boys and tote around hormones with our house keys...
Some parts of Dowd??s book might make University President Lawrence H. Summers proud: she accepts that there are innate differences between men and women. Dowd elaborates on the idea that men may not be best-suited for positions of high authority, pointing to “Rummy’s hot flashes” and other Bush administration pettiness as evidence of Y-chromosomal moodiness...
...course, she is most comfortable when talking politics, but it is her writing on dating and the perplexing rules of attraction that feels the most like a glimpse—or a long stare—at Dowd herself, in all her vulnerability. According to Dowd??and her friends—“disturbing the dating ritual leads to chaos.” Men prefer “malleable” women: “If there’s one thing men fear, it’s a woman who uses her critical faculties...
...remains to be seen, though, what a man would do if he saw Dowd??s book laid confidently on a woman’s nightstand...