Chills Down My Spine
The beginning of this Mark Steyn essay had me laughing:
How else to explain why their gal [Hillary Clinton] got clobbered by a pretty boy [Barack Obama] with a resume you could print on the back of his driver’s license, a Rolodex apparently limited to neo-segregationist racebaiters, campus Marxist terrorists and indicted fraudsters, and a rhetorical surefootedness that makes Dan Quayle look like Socrates.
Then I got to the main point and I wasn’t laughing anymore:
Smaller families may mean just a boy or a girl for liberal Democrats, but in other societies it means just a boy. The Indian writer Gita Aravamudan calls this the “female feticide.” Colleen Carroll Campbell writes that abortion, “touted as the key to liberating future generations of women,” has become instead “the preferred means of eradicating them”. And, while it won’t eradicate all of them, Philip Longman, a demographer of impeccably liberal credentials, put the future in a nutshell in the title of his essay: “The Return Of Patriarchy.”
A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle, the feminists used to say. I look for a lot of salmon to be cycling upstream in the not too distant future.
It is a maxim worth learning that any law passed to protect a certain members of society is almost invariably used to oppress them.