Seriously? No, SERIOUSLY?!?

Back to ranting.

I was watching This Week with Stephanopoulis and they aired snippets of interviews with Harvey Mansfield and Naomi Wolf. While they could have probably interviewed any woman not from the conservative right wing, Mansfield is really the heart and soul of this story. A Harvard prof (tenured and everythin'), he has written the book Manliness (a review of which appeared in the NYT book review last Sunday), which is about as archaic as the title suggests.

My favorite from the interviews this week:

Mansfield: "Politics is a field of competition, and women are less interested in competition, just as they're less interested in sports. And, indeed, I think their interest in sports goes together with their interest in men more than in sports or in politics directly."

Uh, that's because the sports guys play on t.v. are mostly boring--no one cries, no one threatens suicide; walk down any junior high's halls as a thirteen year old girl with the wrong pair of jeans, and you'll understand the term "blood sport."