When right-wing assholes turn on you

My wife, Barbara, is very upset and confused tonight.

You see, when Barbara heard that Harvard University's Larry Summers was of the opinion that women are innately disposed to inadequacy in science and math, she took it to be the "liberal left-wing's" view that women were inferior. It's Harvard, after all, a bastion of left-wing elitist education. She was delighted in a way, because Barbara was, before the kids came along, a very successful electrical engineer, and now she thinks of herself as some strong, right wing female advocate. Summer's opinion galvanized her belief that everything on the left was, well, very bad indeed.

But then she found out that right wing pundits, like Jonah Goldberg were of the same opinion -- basically touting the Harvard University view that women were inferior.

Here's what Goldberg had to say about it:

Doing remarkably little to combat the stereotype that women are emotionally frail and constitutionally incapable of dealing with stress, Professor Nancy Hopkins of MIT told the Boston Globe that she had to leave a lecture delivered by Harvard president Larry Summers because if she didn't she would have "either blacked out or thrown up."
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When he started talking about innate differences in aptitude between men and women, I just couldn't breathe because this kind of bias makes me physically ill," Hopkins told the New York Times. "Let's not forget that people used to say that women couldn't drive an automobile."
That's true. "People" also used to say that women aren't as tall as men, that men are more aggressive than women, that women are the ones who make babies, that men are physically stronger than women, and all sorts of other things that happen to be true. The mere fact that "people" used to say some things that weren't true doesn't mean that everything people used to say is untrue — even if some of those comments offend Hopkins's delicate sensibilities.

Now Barbara's pissed. And perplexed. Her ideological sources have turned against her, acknowledging that women are too "sensitive" and lame because they lack a penis, and she doesn't know what to do.

I told her that she might look to people other than right-wing assholes to find a point of view. But she doesn't listen to me. So I guess all I can do is continue to sit on the La-Z-Boy, watch the news, and weep.