ARE MEN NECESSARY?
When Sexes Collide
GP Putnam - Penguin Books
C 2005 Maureen Dowd (author)
On women, intelligent women, and the expression of opinion. Page 122
"There's a lot of evidence that Papa likes to preach more: Male shouters predominate on TV political shows, as do male bloggers. Teenage boys trash talk much more on the basketball court than teenage girls. men I know and men who read The New York Times write me constantly, asking me to read the opinion pieces they've written. Sometimes they'll e-mail me or fax me their thoughts to read right before I have lunch with them. Women hardly ever send their own rants.'
"My friend Zofia Smardz, a Washington Post Outlook editor whose job it is to find contributors for the Post's opinion pages, wrote an intriguing piece for the Post on "Opiniongate."
"I know who's constantly beating on my door to be heart and who's a little more inclined to hang back, she said. "I took an informal count while writing this, and over a recent span of seven days, unsolicited manuscripts to our section were running seven to one in favor of, yes, those pesky, ubiquitous men."
