MrsSpringsteen
Blue Crack Addict
I guess this book is causing a bit of a firestorm, she will be on Anderson Cooper tonight.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9972517/site/newsweek/
"The Pulitzer prize-winning New York Times Op-Ed columnist freely admits she has no answers when it comes to the gender wars and insists that she is just trying to have some fun. Indeed, when she notes that evolution-wise "men could disappear, taking Maxim magazine, March Madness and cold pizza in the morning with them," it's funny—as is much of the book.
Newsweek -I have to ask, are men necessary?
Maureen Dowd: "Men used to be necessary in terms of reproduction and refinance. But we don't need them for that any more. They'll be necessary like ice cream is necessary. If they're necessary as ornaments, the way women used to be, then they're going to have to be a lot more adoring and look at us raptly."
this is my favorite..
NEWSWEEK: Why did you decide it was time to write about the battle of the sexes?
Maureen Dowd: We haven't really had this conversation about men and women. You don't get to write about sex a lot with the Bush family, and I've covered two generations. I think once I was interviewing Bar, [Barbara Bush] and she said that George senior had been reading a magazine and said: 'Bar what's a bikini wax?' That's the only time sex came up in the first Bush White House.
an excerpt from the book
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9959347/
"Only another hundred thousand years — or ten million, if you believe the Y optimists — and the male chromosome could go the way of the dial-up connection.
So, dear readers of the soon-to-be-extinct male persuasion, you're on notice.
In the year 102,005, or 10,002,005 at the latest, we'll finally have our fair share of female network anchors, female priests, female columnists, female Supreme Court justices, corrupt female CEOs and philandering female presidents.
And we'll run the world. In a manly way, of course."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9972517/site/newsweek/
"The Pulitzer prize-winning New York Times Op-Ed columnist freely admits she has no answers when it comes to the gender wars and insists that she is just trying to have some fun. Indeed, when she notes that evolution-wise "men could disappear, taking Maxim magazine, March Madness and cold pizza in the morning with them," it's funny—as is much of the book.
Newsweek -I have to ask, are men necessary?
Maureen Dowd: "Men used to be necessary in terms of reproduction and refinance. But we don't need them for that any more. They'll be necessary like ice cream is necessary. If they're necessary as ornaments, the way women used to be, then they're going to have to be a lot more adoring and look at us raptly."
this is my favorite..
NEWSWEEK: Why did you decide it was time to write about the battle of the sexes?
Maureen Dowd: We haven't really had this conversation about men and women. You don't get to write about sex a lot with the Bush family, and I've covered two generations. I think once I was interviewing Bar, [Barbara Bush] and she said that George senior had been reading a magazine and said: 'Bar what's a bikini wax?' That's the only time sex came up in the first Bush White House.
an excerpt from the book
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9959347/
"Only another hundred thousand years — or ten million, if you believe the Y optimists — and the male chromosome could go the way of the dial-up connection.
So, dear readers of the soon-to-be-extinct male persuasion, you're on notice.
In the year 102,005, or 10,002,005 at the latest, we'll finally have our fair share of female network anchors, female priests, female columnists, female Supreme Court justices, corrupt female CEOs and philandering female presidents.
And we'll run the world. In a manly way, of course."