As to:

“What struck me most about this interview is that not one specific instance of sexism was ever cited.”

Facts are unimportant when spewing hatred.

This same friend has complained in every phone call of late about the Hillary shriek. There is a tone in that woman’s voice that is the essence of the overbearing nag and shrew and it drives most men nuts. Michelle Obama has a variant of that nag persona and the NRO cover of her wagging her finger at us captured her essence.

In the late 1950′s, early 60′s , when condescended to by men who thought a 36 C bra size meant a -100 IQ, I would use the vocabulary I’d learned from reading and listening to Bill Buckley. . If they persisted, I would ratchett up the vocabulary till eventually they might understand one word in four. It’s hard to condescend to a woman with a superior vocabulary. That was my weapon against sexism and it was a good one.

Years later, Buckley debated Germaine Greer at the Cambridge Debating Society. There was no clash of propositions. Greer gave an eloquent plea for women’s rights and won. Buckley made the excellent point that in the United States, feminism was a stalking horse for Marxism, which was of course true. Steinem was and remains a Marxist. Friedan was not a housewife, she’d been a communist party operative. Look it up.

Men generally want to please women and in the 70′s women told men they wanted them to be “sensitive” like Phil Donahue and Alan Alda. Men tried and then a handsome, macho hunk, Tom Selleck, came along and without missing a beat women made an extreme sharp turn. Men were rightly pissed off.

Eventually, men began hanging out with the guys and a new separation of the sexes took place in America.

My mother was an immigrant who noticed and liked the American way of marriage in which man and woman were partners and each other’s best friend. She warned me about marrying a South American who would get me pregnant and then go out and get a mistress. (an alarming idea as I wanted to be Rita Hayworth in GILDA and practiced her rumba moves and her smile through a mouth full of braces) My folks did have a very American marriage. They were partners and each other’s best friend who did everything together. When I married, that was the model I copied. My husband’s business associates had never met a woman like me, but eventually they grew to enjoy my evisceration of the newest Galbraith educated pup from Harvard. They delighted in bringing me new sacrificial victims to debate. (I emulated more than Buckley’s vocabulary).

Yes, I have seen sexism in the workplace. I always thought women were better off starting their own companies than trying to conform to men’s corporate rules (the same is true of other minority groups).

By the time I was in my mid-20′s (feminism was a decade away) men treated me as a person, not a woman because that was how I presented myself. Only the very few men I was attracted to got the full seduction treatment I had learned from studying Garbo, Hayworth, Bacall al the movies. (I played hookey for a whole year of high school and studied philosophy in the morning and classic films at our local film festival neighborhood movie house in the afternoon. I wanted to grow up to be a femme fatale. So did most of rich Hispanic heiresses at my convent boarding school. Bite me.

In the 1970′s I had returned to university and remember a gorgeous young woman with long blonde hair who wore gauzy Indian shirts (with no bra) and short shorts as she biked to class, whining about the sexist comments men made. Comments? She’s lucky she didn’t get raped. Today, young women act like sluts (girls gone wild) and if pounced on whine that they’re victims. Will these GGW videos someday hurt their chances at a good marriage? American men are very sexually conservative at their core. Will they marry the GGW’s? We’ll have to see.

By the mid-70′s, men didn’t know if opening a door for a woman would get them a thank you or a slap in the face. They developed an emotional stutter. I explained to the men in my life (including the gay ones) that I greatly appreciated the old courtesies. No problem. Men and some women love that kind of thing.

The vulgarity of the hip hop rap generation permeated our culture. White kids were acting like Black ghetto kids. Women were called b*tch*es and “ho’s”. Then, we went to war and the military shaped up these wannabe thugs into young gentlemen who say “Yes, M’am” “No, M”am.” Brings out the long dormant “You Tarzan, Me Jane” in me.

Overall, I see it as the shackling mindset of affirmative action which has Democrats in a tizzy. Ya gots yerselfs a womyn, ya gots yerselfs a African-ameriKKKan….gee, WHAT ‘CHA GONNA DO?!?

In such a quandry, this mindset tends to shortcircuit any last-remaining logic in the mind of a liberal/Leftist to the point of frenzy, twisted justifications-after-the-fact, and laughable attemptes at – ahem – “journalism”.

On a separate note: “That’s like me, exactly like me….” Good Lord, Bwill Bwadley, it’s not always about you. Ex-military or not, you have chosen to be a cheerleader for The Obamboozler and you can rightly be criticized on that basis.

That’s like me, exactly like me, saying Steve Schmidt pointed out, Mark Salter pointed out, John McCain pointed out, Laura Ingraham pointed out.

Speaking of the point.

>In the unfolding tale of Reverend Wright, Karl Rove pointed out, “In just 62 days, Americans were treated to eight different explanations.”