Mickey Meece had a startling discovery in Saturday’s New York Times Business section: Women are never going to break the glass ceiling if they don't stop their cat fighting!
Remember Roy Den Hollander, the righteously antifeminst New York lawyer whose greatest hits of frivolous litigation include, “Ladies’ Nights Are Unfair to Men,” “The Violence Against Women Act is Unconstitutional to ME!,” and “My Mail-Order Bride Left Me to Become a Stripper, I’m Gonna Sue the Club Where She Works”? Well, you’ll be relieved to know that his most recent waste of a court's time and money — a lawsuit against Columbia University contending that their Women’s Studies curriculum violated Title IX and was unconstituional — was given a big thumbs-down last week.
Sure, this New York Times story about gender discrepancy in men's and women's dry cleaning prices may seem a little frivolous (especially considering that most of us can't pay $8.75 to get our shirts cleaned), but props are still in order. Another blow struck in the name of gender equality! More after the jump.
The New York Times Book Review has never exactly embraced passionate advocacy—unless it was promoting Pynchon’s and DeLillo’s place in the postmodernist canon. Even worse, it has become the place where serious feminist books come to die— or more accurately, to be dismissed with the flick of a well-manicured postfeminist wrist.