I write in Politico today about the latest iteration of the war on women, which is even sillier than the last war on women:

Such is the state of the debate in the North Carolina Senate race that POLITICO’s website had to run a report headlined, “Thom Tillis dismisses ‘mansplaining’ charges.” Next week, it will be “Tillis rebuts accusations of microaggression.”
The DSCC has an online petition declaring, “The Republican War on Women is back, and it’s even more appalling than ever.” (Notice the capitalization — like the War of the Spanish Succession, or World War I.) It cited the GOP’s “incredibly demeaning views.”
It’s as if the editors of Salon, or the faculty of the women’s and gender studies department at Wellesley, run the Democratic Party. The assumption is that women are strong and independent — just don’t say the wrong word around them or they will get the vapors.