S.E. Cupp scratches her head and wonders what the heck is wrong with Barbara Boxer. As many of us do.

The venomous brand of feminism that cuts men off at the knees to make women arbitrarily taller is no longer credible. When Boxer had the audacity – and some would argue, questionable mental clarity – to publicly scold a US Army general for calling her “ma’am” instead of “senator,” it telegraphed to the rest of the world the sheer inanity of today’s modern feminism, a rusting relic of the 60’s that’s been pushed so far to the extreme borders of relevance that it actually has Boxer hearing things. Yes, in today’s feminism, calling a woman “ma’am” is a mark of disrespect.
But calling another woman a “slutty flight attendant” is apparently hilarious. Never mind that the woman is a United States Governor ….
With Pelosi irrationally attacking the integrity of the CIA, and Boxer publicly criticizing an Army general for a totally imagined slight, it’s a wonder women are taken seriously at all anymore. And as one, I admit I’m more than a little embarrassed by their behavior.

Somebody should remind Mrs. Boxer that there’s a reason that there’s a reason U.S. presidents are called “Mr. President” instead of “Your Excellency” or somesuch. We’re a republic, and it’s unseemly for officeholders to be fixated on questions of title. An American citizen seems to me well within his rights to call the president “Mr. Obama” (though George W. Bush apparently insisted on “Mr. President” on public occasions) and Senator Boxer deserves ridicule for taking umbrage at “ma’am.” (She deserves ridicule for much else, too.) It’s not like the general called her “sweetie.”

Naturally, NPR has the wrong take. And Jay Nordlinger had it exactly right (as usual) on titles back in 2002.