Does Kathryn Lopez Understand Sarcastic Questions?
Fumes Kathryn Lopez at National Review,
Are Men Necessary? Maureen Dowd asked that ridiculous question in her book, as you’ll recall. What is up with a culture that not only amuses the question, but in which our fundamental cultural institutions works to deride and undermine men, as if to say: “No, of course they are not necessary!”?
But it doesn’t stop there! Lord Peter Wimsey creator and noted woman-hater Dorothy L. Sayers once wrote a book titled Are Women Human? And law professor Catharine MacKinnon later used the same title. Clearly, then, they both believed that women are not human.
What is up with this culture, where such questions can be asked — sorry, amused — with impunity? Well, I’m off to work on my new book, Does Civilization Exist in Cities Other Than Ann Arbor?