![]() ![]() But maybe it doesn't matter as she is not a man so is safe to criticize? Times editorial page editor, trying to force him to run her humdrum syndicated column. The kerfuffle over female columnists started when Susan Estrich launched a crazed and nasty smear campaign against Michael Kinsley, the L.A. She just uses them as if they were the Truth. These are stereotypes, and Maureen doesn't actually ask if there is any truth in them. Take these ideas in the quote I gave from her: that women want to be liked and that men don't want to be criticized by a woman. I have even wondered if she could possibly be a woman, given how little she seems to know of the Life of the Female. I sometimes think that she writes these columns in a cab and asks the cabdriver for some expert opinions on why women do the things they do. I'm often asked how I can be so "mean" - a question that Tom Friedman, who writes plenty of tough columns, doesn't get.įor a good writer Dowd is astonishingly thick on psychology and women's issues. If a man writes a scathing piece about men in power, it's seen as his job a woman can be cast as an emasculating man-hater. While a man writing a column taking on the powerful may be seen as authoritative, a woman doing the same thing may be seen as castrating. When I wrote columns about the Clinton impeachment opéra bouffe, Chris Matthews said that for poor Bill, it must feel as though he had another wife hectoring him. Men take professional criticism more personally when it comes from a woman. The word "harridan" derives from the French word "haridelle" - a worn-out horse or nag. It taps into myths of carping Harpies and hounding Furies, and distaste for nagging by wives and mothers. ![]() Guys don't appreciate being lectured by a woman. Bill Safire told me I needed Punzac, Prozac for pundits. He said I could go back to The Metro Section I decided to give it another try. As a woman, I told Howell, I wanted to be liked - not attacked. I felt as though I were in a "Godfather" movie, shooting and getting shot at. In 1996, after six months on the job, I went to Howell Raines, the editorial page editor, to try to get out of the column. Maureen Dowd wrote a column on the lack of women who write opinion columns and then gave her own diagnosis of the problem: This is a few days old, but I have been stewing it slowly in my head. ![]()
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