Saturday Morning Yuck

I’m going along, enjoying my Saturday morning newspaper reading catch-up, when I stumble on this (via zuzu):

You know how ladies, when they don’t get what they want, can go a little crazy? Am I right, fellas? Right now, they’re pretty upset about losing their first chance at a female president. This would have empowered little girls, shattered sexist beliefs about female incompetence and forced men around the world to view a woman as an agent of power instead of a sex object — all of which, it turns out, are important to women even though they buy Star magazine. Ladies are complicated.

Because women do most of the voting, and the shopping and the TV watching and the book reading — porn really must take up a lot of men’s time — they need to be placated. Which shouldn’t be hard. You know how when your dog dies, your wife wants to get a puppy right away? That’s what America has to do. We need a replacement Hillary.

This drivel is courtesy of the LA Times’s Joel Stein. And it gets worse from there.

Will a female vice president really satisfy women? Of course not. But what does? The point is that we’ll be showing them we understand that their frustration is legitimate, and that we’re hearing them, and that we’re ready to listen. That stuff will totally buy us until November.

Oh Joel, you’re so funny. You figure out how to turn a valid point — that both John McCain and Obama (if he is the nominee) might do well to consider a woman veep candidate — into a pile of misogynistic, patronizing bunk. Kudos to you.