[Fido969]

We've seen this pattern time and time again, and we should understand it by now - it is a NOW power play, they want to see if they can use raw political power to influence an event - flexing their muscles so that others heed and fear them.

That's all there is to it - it has nothing to do, really, with Summers, what he said, or advancement of women's issues.

Sometimes this strategy backfires, like it did in the California recall election, and like it did in the November presidential election. As such, it is a risky maneuver - it is a significant force multiplier if it succeeds, but in the event it fails, then folks tend to start to think about how little support NOW really has from the general population.

I have observed so many times that politicians shy away from anything that might offend the fems - not that they agree and support the fem issues, but because they don't want to have the harpies organizing demonstrations (and expressing the predicable and tiresome "outrage") against them.

Most pols, whether dem or rep, lib or con, have decided that this is not the hill they want to die on.

[cyborg]

Why should he? He apologized. When they call for the resignation of Ted Rall, Sly Sylvester,etc. I'll consider their opinions worthy of my attention.

[Polyxene]

Kim Gandy = Number One NAG HAG.

[nikos1121]

what about the theory that people who have descended from the Incas are better at math...? or that black people have a better aptitude at computers... ?

I mean, debate the issue... but don't call for a man's resignation over this.

interesting to see that NOW has finally gone after someone from the clinton years.

nick

[JillValentine]

The NOW nags are probably one of the biggest reasons for the existence of misogynist ideology. People hear them whining and mistakenly think that all or most women are like that.

I would guess that at least 80% of women think the NOW nags are idiots.

[samtheman]

How about the innate differences between the life of freedom for women in the non-Moslem world and the life of slavery for women in the Moslem world?

Does NOW have any opinion about that?

[Danae]

Hey Kim, go get pregnant.

Then again, never mind, please don't breed.

[Plutarch]

Summers...has offered a series of increasingly contrite apologies.

As if that will do him any good. He should have just stuck to his guns and defended himself on scientific grounds.

[VOA]

NOW Says Harvard President Lawrence Summers Should Resign

Nice to see the liberal nutburgers consume "one of their own" for a change.

[stinkerpot65]

Feminists are not amused.

[DianeDePoitiers]

Why aren't scholars with conservative views better represented in top positions (or any positions) in universities? Is there some deficiency in the conservative brain that makes them less capable in academic work?

[PhilipFreneau]

>> The National Organization for Women has called for the resignation of Harvard University President Lawrence Summers.

Summers should have raped a woman, like Bill Clinton did, and NOW would have proclaimed him a hero.

[television is just wrong]

Geez, get over it.