"Why Can't a Woman Be More Like a Man..."

Larry Summers, the President of Harvard University, seems once again to have wound up on the wrong side of the Left establishment. This time, he is being attacked for challenging the idea that are actually differences between men and women. To the vast majority of people this idea is fairly obvious. But to the Left, it is nothing short of radical - the idea that equality and "sameness" are not the same thing seems to be too complicated for these intellectuals.

So what was the response to Summer's offense?

"I would've either blacked out or thrown up," said Nancy Hopkins, a biologist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who stood up and left Summers' speech, reports the Boston Globe. "It is so upsetting that all these brilliant young women (at Harvard) are being led by a man who views them this way," she added.

Summers was dimly aware that stating the obvious is a provocation on liberal campuses. So he girded his audience for comments about "differences" between the sexes with the preface, "I'm going to provoke you." But his ginger approach to the subject was still "upsetting" to members of the audience. Not false, but upsetting. Notice that professors don't even bother to formulate their criticisms in cerebral language anymore; they just express emotional hurts.

Of course, being the gentleman that he is, Summers has taken the appropriate steps to remedy this offense: Harvard Chief Sends Roses to Fainting Female Prof

Mr. Summers expressed regret today that the female scientist was "hurt by my brutal suggestion that further research was needed to find reasons for the observable phenomenon of male dominance in science and math. I hope the dear lady can forgive me for bringing up such coarse subjects in mixed company. In the future, I shall show more sensitivity in the presence of the fairer sex."