She’s just saying that because she doesn’t get laid.
Maureen Dowd wonders (yet again) What’s a modern girl to do?
MoDo has bloviated in the past about how so many of her successful friends are in their forties and still single. Of course, she notes that men would rather marry their personal assistants — and of course determines it is because men fear powerful, successful, intelligent women.
She’s wrong, of course. One of the traits of the business world is competition. Men are inherently competitive, but we know when to turn it off. Women in the business world, in a misinterpretation of how to be sucessful, try to emulate men. It doesn’t get them far professionally, and furthermore they forget to turn it off when they leave the office.
Contrary to popular belief, men aren’t afraid of intelligent women. Personal assistants are often quite intelligent, given that they are essentially the support crew for a business executive. It can’t be fear of power either, since a personal assistant wields considerable power over the person she assists. And if she wasn’t successful at what she did, she’d be unemployed.
No, what we don’t want is women who are bitter shrews who view every interaction with a man as a power transaction. We don’t want competition, we want companionship. When you turn dating into combat, we walk away.
Maureen Dowd, who is by no means unattractive, is her own worst enemy. She is the epitome of the high-maintenance woman. She’s not independent, she’s needy. Why the hell would a sane man want a woman who isn’t capable of standing on her own two feet?
(N.B. the title is the kind of commentary that men often get when we criticize the sisterhood as being insufficiently womanly. We are assumed to be embittered cads suffering from an extended bout of blue balls. Turnabout’s fair play, eh?)