Seriously, WTF!?

We Scream, We Swoon. How Dumb Can We Get?

"Women 'Falling for Obama,' " the story's headline read. Elsewhere around the country, women were falling for the presidential candidate literally. Connecticut radio talk show host Jim Vicevich has counted five separate instances in which women fainted at Obama rallies since last September. And I thought such fainting was supposed to be a relic of the sexist past, when patriarchs forced their wives and daughters to lace themselves into corsets that cut off their oxygen.

I can't help it, but reading about such episodes of screaming, gushing and swooning makes me wonder whether women -- I should say, "we women," of course -- aren't the weaker sex after all. Or even the stupid sex, our brains permanently occluded by random emotions, psychosomatic flailings and distraction by the superficial. Women "are only children of a larger growth," wrote the 18th-century Earl of Chesterfield. Could he have been right?

I am beyond insulted. I am the first to admit that I am a highly emotional creature, but to relate that to being dumb? This is exactly the same stereotype that continues to keep women out of male dominated interest and careers. I read "Eat, Pray, Love" and really enjoyed it, but I also love organic chemistry and generally dislike small children. All I can say is Fuck You Charlotte Allen!

So I don't understand why more women don't relax, enjoy the innate abilities most of us possess (as well as the ones fewer of us possess) and revel in the things most important to life at which nearly all of us excel: tenderness toward children and men and the weak and the ability to make a house a home. (Even I, who inherited my interior-decorating skills from my Bronx Irish paternal grandmother, whose idea of upgrading the living-room sofa was to throw a blanket over it, can make a house a home.) Then we could shriek and swoon and gossip and read chick lit to our hearts' content and not mind the fact that way down deep, we are . . . kind of dim.

A couple weeks ago, a guy approched me in a bar. He started talking to me, and being the friendly person I am, I answered his questions. While talking, I noticed what was on the TV, the news was talking about how astronomers had found a solar system similar to ours. I mentioned to the guy I had read an article on that, and how neat I thought it was. I turned my head to involve a friend of mine in the conversation, and when I turned back, maybe seconds later, the dude was gone. In my reading, I have learned that some girls try to seem "dumber" than they really are to get a man. In my case, I felt pretty kick ass. Besides, if you find a girl talking science lame, you are definitely not the guy for me.

What has happened to our media, that this type of bullshit is allowed to be published? We may have come a long way, but we still have a long way to go.

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