I'd love to circulate the following bit of plagiarism to see the kind of reaction I'd get from the feminazi's, and then send their comments to Ms Shapiro as well as her editors. I have a feeling I'd get in trouble though.
ABOUT MEN
Oppression of girls totally fair
By Trevor Schyitpyahl
Independent Columnist
I never thought I'd say that there's a downside to being the privileged gender.
No, I don't really want to strip women of their jobs, their salaries, their degrees, their right to vote or any freedoms they enjoy.
I do want to be able to explain to a 9-year-old girl in terms she will understand why I think it's OK for boys to wear shirts that revel in their privilege over girls.
The T-shirts became an issue when my daughter Corina begged me to buy her mom an "I beat your dad at Mario Kart" shirt as a testament to my poor video game skills.
Ha, ha, ha.
I struck back and suggested we buy her little brother another shirt we saw that said "How do you know when a girl is going to say something smart?" in large, bright letters followed underneath by the punchline "When you hear her say: a boy once told me..."
"That's so offensive," Corina complained. "Why are they so mean? You have to write about it."
In general, I support a boy's right to offend any member of the opposite sex who happens to cross his path. In fact, I'd much rather see a little boy wearing a shirt that mocks girls than one that boasts of his own superiority.
That's not a conversation I'm willing to have with a 9-year-old, though, so I used the equal but different argument instead.
The problem is that even smart girls like Corina sometimes have a hard time seeing the big picture.
Women have made big strides in the past few decades, but women have flooded the job market and have even become a significant presence in high-level and highly-paid positions, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Hopefully tomorrow's men will be propelled further faster if they reinforce the inferiority complex that apparently no longer exists in some women, especially when it comes to areas like the big business and politics. This "girls are stupid" thinking could lead to the obvious conclusion: Women should return to where they were meant to be so that men can return to where they belong.
Unfortunately, there was no way for me to bring this home to a girl who lives in a world full of bright and successful women, including her teacher, principal, doctors and even the governor.
Her parents both have female supervisors and so does she. That would be her mom.
In Corina's eyes, mom is the primary authority figure. She could be sitting six feet away from me and she'll still get up to find mom in another room to open a container, help her with her homework or answer a question, even, of course, if it deals with video games.
Her second-in-command is her bossy older sister, whose powerful personality forces both Corina and her little brother to bend to her whims and wiles.
It's not fair, she says, because everyone knows that girls are smarter than boys.
Uh-huh ... And she wonders why I support a boy's right to put girls in their place.