The Misanthrope’s Corner

I HAVE frequently made tongue-in-cheek statements about repealing the Nineteenth Amendment. Now I say it again, but with a straightened-out tongue. The women’s vote is making idiots of everybody and we’d be better off without it.

It’s hard to pick a defining moment when all roads lead to Waterloo, but mine is probably the minivan commercial. It’s been running over and over all summer; interestingly, on a lot of political shows. It opens with a chiding kid asking, How far would you go to protect your children?” and then features more kids asking more chiding questions. The one that gets to me is “Would you face a charging grizzly bear?” I’d pour honey on the little bastard just to make sure, but then I’m not focus-groupable. The correct answer is an affirmative upward surge of the wriggling yellow line on pollster Frank Luntz’s Female Emotion Machine.

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Florence King

Florence King was a contributing editor of National Review.

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I HAVE frequently made tongue-in-cheek statements about repealing the Nineteenth Amendment. Now I say it again, but with a straightened-out tongue. The women’s vote is making idiots of everybody and we’d be better off without it.

It’s hard to pick a defining moment when all roads lead to Waterloo, but mine is probably the minivan commercial. It’s been running over and over all summer; interestingly, on a lot of political shows. It opens with a chiding kid asking, How far would you go to protect your children?” and then features more kids asking more chiding questions. The one that gets to me is “Would you face a charging grizzly bear?” I’d pour honey on the little bastard just to make sure, but then I’m not focus-groupable. The correct answer is an affirmative upward surge of the wriggling yellow line on pollster Frank Luntz’s Female Emotion Machine.