Posted on 04/10/2008 5:58:56 AM PDT by FreeManDC
Dee Dee Myers has just come out with her amusing tale, Why Women Should Rule the World. You may recall Mrs. Myers was the first female White House press secretary, appointed during the first two tumultuous years of the Clinton administration.
Simply put, Myers is a female supremacist. "Women tend to be better communicators, better listeners, better at forming consensus," she argues. That entitles women to run the world because they do everything better than those power-hungry men, Myers believes.
As the unsmiling Myers goes about promoting her book, one wonders what led her to pen a tome filled with crude gender stereotypes and doubtful claims.
After Myers left the hurly-burly of the White House in 1994, Myers married a handsome (and well-paid) magazine executive. They moved into a tony Washington DC home and had two children together.
But 14 years after leaving her heady White House post, Myers' career has stalled out. She has only managed to land a few part-time consulting jobs, like advising the now-defunct NBC series, The West Wing.
Hardly an inspiring role model for the female global domination wannabes.
If you go out and get Myers' book, don't expect to find a watertight argument.
According to Myers, women create a nurturing, idyllic work environment — well, with a few exceptions. In a 2000 Frontline interview, Myers made these remarks about her White House encounters with a devious Hillary Clinton:
"Hillary tended to kind of campaign against people behind their back, and that was certainly my experience."
Women are the peaceful gender, as well. To prove the point, Myers highlights on page 125 how Queen Elizabeth I arranged to have Mary Queen of Scots beheaded, Indira Gandhi pushed for a sharp increase in nuclear arms, and Margaret Thatcher went to war in the Falklands.
Women never abuse their power, either. That's true for every woman in the world except Indira Gandhi who "used emergency provisions to grant herself extraordinary powers and quash dissent," Myers admits.
Women are gentle consensus-builders, as well. Myers recounts the story of Alexis Herman, former Secretary of Labor, who tried her hand at resolving a labor strike. Frustrated by the lack of progress, Herman grabbed one of the negotiators by the lapels and issued this threat: "Don't f_ck with me."
Perhaps we should be grateful that Mrs. Meyers does not make the claim that women are the logical sex. And some of her factual statements raise eyebrows, as well.
Myers says back in 1998 the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition brokered the historic Good Friday Agreement, a claim that presidential candidate Hillary Clinton also stands by.
Unfortunately, no one else saw it that way. As Irish historian Tim Pat Coogan noted, "It was a nice thing to see [Hillary Clinton] there, with the women's groups. It helped, I suppose, but it was ancillary to the main thing." The Women's Coalition disbanded in 2006 after its candidates lost in two straight elections, an inconvenient truth that escapes Meyer's notice.
There's this chestnut on page 56: "until recently, all the research into [heart] disease was conducted on men." But somehow that doesn't square with the FDA analysis that found, "women have been included in drug development studies at least since the early 1980s in approximate proportion to the prevalence of disease in them." [www.ifeminists.net/introduction/editorials/2006/0412roberts.html]
And as we all know, women are victims of the gender wage gap. Want proof? When the 31-year-old Myers worked at the White House, she was paid a measly $100,000. But there was another deputy assistant, he was paid $10,000 more.
True, he was far more experienced and qualified. He took a big pay cut to come work for President Clinton. But that didn't matter — Dee Dee was entitled to that extra 800 bucks in her paycheck.
Go call the lawyers!
Lest you suspect that Myers is totally unsympathetic to men, she proffers this reassurance on page 128: "That's not to say women should replace men altogether." And yes, she does thank her husband in the Acknowledgements.
See, not all men are that bad.
Dee Dee Myers comes across as a woman who hasn't figured out whether she wants to be a stay-at-home mom or go back to being a 60-hour-a-week workaholic. So every road bump in life is blamed on the heartless patriarchy. She publishes a book filled with odious stereotypes and half-truths, and then wonders why her colleagues don't take her seriously.
In the end, Myers' book becomes a feminist fairy tale that provokes sadness, not outrage. In its over-wrought quest to promote female empowerment, her work becomes a parody of the very movement she has chosen to embrace.
“In 1995, while co-host of the CNBC cable show “Equal Time,” she was arrested on a DUI charge and said to have been driving on the wrong side of the road, though charges were eventually dropped.”
We know who wears the pants in that family!
Dee Dee Myers : Women are gentle consensus-builders.
Har har. thats a laugh.
DeeDee, I invite you to spend a day at my workplace which is 80% women.
Thanks, that’s more info than I wanted or needed.
She needs a stiff drink.
Another Clintonoid.
I bet you’re correct.
Dumbocrat chicks don’t age well, even if they started out OK.
Dee Dee Meyers is a casualty of feminism.
She was unqualified for her job, always appeared in over her head, and yet used reproductive role as an excuse for her failings.
It seems clear the Hilaryista faction of the clintonistas has written Dee Dee off and Dee Dee is bitter as heck. Of course she can’t blame Hillary because she is a woman....
(sounds like she wrote the book under the influence of a mind altering substance left over from her WH daze)
A picture of her brother, the disco Rod Stewart, would be in order.
Waddayou expect? she's a democrap, ain't she???
Indeed.
And there's video all over the internet of a peaceful meeting in Lakeland, FL between a cheerleader and some of her rivals to prove it.
Looks like Dee Dee’s been to the gym.
I think you may have something there...back in the Clinton corrupt and fraudulent administration days there were whispers about Dee Dee being a lesbion.....she fit right in with the others that were desecrating the people’s house.
Call me a misogynist, but I would argue that MOST women should stay our of politics (at least in America) because most women I have seen will always trade freedom for security.
Oh, please! you ARE cruel, live alone do ya?
As a man I can hardly state that men are all great workers. However every place I’ve worked, including the present one, had different factions of women who were at extreme odds with each other. I know two ex close female friends who had their workplace friendship ended because one of them got somewhat better working hours. The bitterness I’ve witnessed between different female groups makes me conclude that the idea that females are more cooperative than males is bunk.
I just laugh at people like Di Di meyers. thinking they are speaking for all women.
First of all Di Di...NO ONE SHOULD RULE THE WORLD. Don’t know where you came up with that title but is is an assinine title. Got it?
And...who says women would be better than men? Look at hilllelreee and her ilk. No thanks.
Human beings are human beings...men or women. They are either honorable and good or they are dishonorable and bad. This nonsense of women ruling the world is pure feminist garbage. She has been reduced to being an analyst on TV. Big career. She’s boring. By the way Di Di if a woman DID rule the world it sure as heck wouldn’t be you or hilllereee.
don’t know. I wouldn’t take it if it was given to me as a gift. Well, I COULD use it for the bird cages.
Dang - that is funny! And I was digging her pic until you engraved Mr. Do Ya Think I’m Sexy into my head...
It has now become obvious how Duh Duh Myers was connected to the Clintons.
They were connected at the mind.
You got it. Don’t anyone tell me women all get along. Not when someone is nipping at their heels to move up the ladder. Then it is every WOMAN for themselves. She must be living in a dream world or maybe she never had a REAL JOB. Who knows?
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