Maureen Dowd Leaps At Opportunity To Babble About Latest Made-Up Gender Role Narrative

No one was more excited about the Controversial Major News Story earlier this week, involving Barack Obama and his sexist athletic proclivities, than Maureen Dowd, the popular newspaper sex columnist from 1998. The story provided her with at least three columns worth of unclear wordplay about gender and politics and homos. Check out this peculiar bit: "Besides, if Obama starts using a quota system for recreation, it will give fuel to the Republican campaign to paint him as a hand-wringing, Mom-jeans-wearing girly-boy." Note the way she fully outsources this superficial "campaign" to the Republicans, but doesn't acknowledge the weekly leadership role a liberal femaleNew York Timescolumnist has been playing in it for the last decade. [ NYT via Gawker ]