'War on women': Liberal propaganda

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'War on women': Liberal propaganda

'War on women': Liberal propaganda

You've probably heard that Democratic Party leaders decided that a way to win votes this November is to shout loudly that Republicans wage “war on women.” Politico calls this a “proven, persuasive argument.”

Give me a break. The idea of a conservative “war on women” is as silly as propaganda I was taught in college: Aside from sex organs, genders are exactly equal, said my leftist professors, and any admission of differences is oppressive.

I was taught that boys and girls behave differently because we're raised differently. Treat genders the same and behavior differences would vanish. I believed it.

Then I had kids and learned what a fool I'd been.

There's plenty of science documenting that men and women are just programmed differently. Yet when I reported on that, feminist icon Gloria Steinem told me that gender differences shouldn't even be studied . She sneered, it's “anti-American, crazy thinking to do this kind of research.”

Such mindless egalitarianism appeals to politicians, so governments push more of it. President Barack Obama and his supporters brag that ObamaCare forces insurance companies to sell men and women health insurance for the exact same price. On my TV show, Democrat activist Jehmu Greene asked indignantly, “Do you want to live in a country where you charge women more than men?”

Well, yes, I do. Insurance should account for costs. Even if you exclude pregnancy visits, women go to doctors much more often, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Insurance companies used to reflect that in prices. That isn't bigotry — it's just math.

Insurance companies still charge men more for car and life insurance. That's just math, too, because most women live longer than most men and, despite the “woman driver” stereotype, we men get into more car accidents.

I don't hear activists complaining about men paying too much. The “victim” propaganda works only when women pay more.

Obama even cynically repeats the misleading claim that women make 77 cents for every dollar men make, although his own Department of Labor says the difference evaporates once you control for experience and other choices.

Liberal social engineers may dream of a society where genders are exactly equal, but that's nonsense. Men and women are different. We should celebrate that difference instead of claiming that women are victims.

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