NY Times columnist Maureen Dowd sticks it to the male hierarchies in her Father Knows Worst column today.
A monsoon of sickening stories lately illustrates how twisted societies become when women are either never seen, dismissed as second-class citizens or occluded by testosterone: the church subsidizing pedophilia; the Afghan warlords’ resumption of pedophilia; the Taliban obliteration of women; the brotherhood of Al Qaeda and Mohamed Atta’s mysogynistic funeral instructions; the implosion of the macho Enron Ponzi scheme; the repression of women, even American servicewomen, by our allies the Saudis.
I don’t disagree with any of this. But it made me wonder if there are similar examples of all-women societies built on special privileges that mess things up, especially after reading the Girls Just Want to Be Mean piece from two weeks ago. I’d feel a little better about Dowd’s indictment if she acknowledged that all-female power likely corrupts just as absolutely as all-male.