Anthony Weiner Dominique Strauss-Kahn Arnold Schwarzenegger -- these are just the most recent examples of powerful men who have ruined their lives because of some inappropriate (or in the case of Strauss-Kahn allegedly much worse than inappropriate) sexual conduct.
Can you name a single woman politician caught in a similar sex scandal?
If not why not?
The answer is so simple and so obvious that there should be no need to write a column on the subject. But thanks to feminism and academia the obvious has been declared untrue.
Take the article on this subject by New York Times Washington correspondent Sheryl Gay Stolberg. Titled When It Comes to Scandal Girls Wont Be Boys Stolberg begins her answer to the question as to why powerful men but not powerful women are involved in sex scandals with this disclaimer: It would be easy to file this under the category of men behaving badly to dismiss it as a testosterone-induced hard-wired connection between sex and power (powerful men attract women) ... .
Of course what Stolberg dismisses as the reason is precisely the reason. Power (and money and fame) seduces women in the same way womens bodies and faces seduce men. And unless men exert major efforts to control their sexual nature they will use their power (or money or fame) to obtain sex with a variety of women.
There are only two things that stop powerful and famous men from sleeping with available women. The first is a strong value system (that is a sense of obligation to their wives and/or their religions power over them). The second is an overwhelming fear of getting caught. In either case these things must be coupled with powerful self-control.
Yes Stolberg men -- the least powerful as much as the most powerful -- are hard-wired to sleep with as many women as they can. The only difference between the governor of California and a male sanitation worker is that the former has far more opportunities.
But Stolberg our well-educated New York Times correspondent denies this basic reality about mens natures. Feminism 101 teaches the opposite of reality -- that men and women have similar if not identical sexual drives. And therefore she dismisses the truth of the matter at the outset of her article.
But if it isnt male sexual nature what is the New York Times reporters feminist explanation for why sexual scandal is virtually a monopoly of powerful men?
There may be something else at work: Research points to a substantial gender gap in the way women and men approach running for office. Women have different reasons for running are more reluctant to do so and because there are so few of them in politics are acutely aware of the scrutiny they draw -- all of which seems to lead to differences in the way they handle their jobs once elected.
See? In her worldview powerful women might be driven to bed good-looking men as much as powerful men are driven to bed good-looking women. But research points to another explanation for why they do not.
And what is that other reason? Stolberg quotes a fellow feminist.
The shorthand of it is that women run for office to do something and men run for office to be somebody said Debbie Walsh director of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.
Aha! Women politicians are more noble.
Later in her article Stolberg reinforces -- perhaps sensing that even New York Times readers might find the women are more noble than men explanation tough to take -- her original denial that the issue is male sexual nature. She writes: Helen Fisher an anthropologist at Rutgers said her studies on adultery show that at least under the age of 40 women are equally as likely to engage in it as men. She theorizes that perhaps women are simply more clever about not getting caught.
So then women politicians are not more noble than their male colleagues just better at not getting caught!
But then Stolberg reverts to her original thesis by noting that Dee Dee Myers a press secretary to President Bill Clinton ... and the author of Why Women Should Rule the World surmises that male politicians feel invincible. It would be impossible she said to imagine Nancy Pelosi the former House speaker doing anything like what Mr. Weiner did.
Of course it is impossible to imagine Nancy Pelosi doing anything like Anthony Weiner did. But not because powerful men think they are invincible and powerful women do not but because of male sexual nature.
Powerful men are involved in sex scandals because they think they can get away with doing so and because the drive to do what they did is so powerful they risk everything they cherish in life for it.
Dennis Prager is a radio show host contributing columnist for Townhall.com and author of 4 books including Happiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual.
Anthony Weiner Dominique Strauss-Kahn Arnold Schwarzenegger -- these are just the most recent examples of powerful men who have ruined their lives because of some inappropriate (or in the case of Strauss-Kahn allegedly much worse than inappropriate) sexual conduct.
Can you name a single woman politician caught in a similar sex scandal?
If not why not?
The answer is so simple and so obvious that there should be no need to write a column on the subject. But thanks to feminism and academia the obvious has been declared untrue.
Take the article on this subject by New York Times Washington correspondent Sheryl Gay Stolberg. Titled When It Comes to Scandal Girls Wont Be Boys Stolberg begins her answer to the question as to why powerful men but not powerful women are involved in sex scandals with this disclaimer: It would be easy to file this under the category of men behaving badly to dismiss it as a testosterone-induced hard-wired connection between sex and power (powerful men attract women) ... .
Of course what Stolberg dismisses as the reason is precisely the reason. Power (and money and fame) seduces women in the same way womens bodies and faces seduce men. And unless men exert major efforts to control their sexual nature they will use their power (or money or fame) to obtain sex with a variety of women.
There are only two things that stop powerful and famous men from sleeping with available women. The first is a strong value system (that is a sense of obligation to their wives and/or their religions power over them). The second is an overwhelming fear of getting caught. In either case these things must be coupled with powerful self-control.
Yes Stolberg men -- the least powerful as much as the most powerful -- are hard-wired to sleep with as many women as they can. The only difference between the governor of California and a male sanitation worker is that the former has far more opportunities.
But Stolberg our well-educated New York Times correspondent denies this basic reality about mens natures. Feminism 101 teaches the opposite of reality -- that men and women have similar if not identical sexual drives. And therefore she dismisses the truth of the matter at the outset of her article.
But if it isnt male sexual nature what is the New York Times reporters feminist explanation for why sexual scandal is virtually a monopoly of powerful men?
There may be something else at work: Research points to a substantial gender gap in the way women and men approach running for office. Women have different reasons for running are more reluctant to do so and because there are so few of them in politics are acutely aware of the scrutiny they draw -- all of which seems to lead to differences in the way they handle their jobs once elected.
See? In her worldview powerful women might be driven to bed good-looking men as much as powerful men are driven to bed good-looking women. But research points to another explanation for why they do not.
And what is that other reason? Stolberg quotes a fellow feminist.
The shorthand of it is that women run for office to do something and men run for office to be somebody said Debbie Walsh director of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.
Aha! Women politicians are more noble.
Later in her article Stolberg reinforces -- perhaps sensing that even New York Times readers might find the women are more noble than men explanation tough to take -- her original denial that the issue is male sexual nature. She writes: Helen Fisher an anthropologist at Rutgers said her studies on adultery show that at least under the age of 40 women are equally as likely to engage in it as men. She theorizes that perhaps women are simply more clever about not getting caught.
So then women politicians are not more noble than their male colleagues just better at not getting caught!
But then Stolberg reverts to her original thesis by noting that Dee Dee Myers a press secretary to President Bill Clinton ... and the author of Why Women Should Rule the World surmises that male politicians feel invincible. It would be impossible she said to imagine Nancy Pelosi the former House speaker doing anything like what Mr. Weiner did.
Of course it is impossible to imagine Nancy Pelosi doing anything like Anthony Weiner did. But not because powerful men think they are invincible and powerful women do not but because of male sexual nature.
Powerful men are involved in sex scandals because they think they can get away with doing so and because the drive to do what they did is so powerful they risk everything they cherish in life for it.
Dennis Prager is a radio show host contributing columnist for Townhall.com and author of 4 books including Happiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual.
