Barack Obama Runs the Country Like a Girl

“While men seek ways to measure themselves against others, for reasons requiring no elaboration, women form circles and talk it out.”

So writes Kathleen Parker, 2010 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary, in today’s Washington Post, on why Barack Obama is America’s first woman president.

We’ll resist our testosterone-fueled urge to measure Parker’s understanding of gender against our own. Instead, for reasons requiring no elaboration, we’ll form a circle, out of our body, by curling up into a ball and weeping softly, drying our tears with crumpled Washington Post op-ed pages.

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