The Issue: In this opinion piece, Kathleen Parker argues that men of western nations should be ashamed because they have been humiliated (even if they don`t feel humiliated) by the noble actions of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who released a woman POW along with 14 male POWs who were captured at sea in March.
Parker suggests that women are objects ("What kind of man, one shudders to wonder, is willing to allow his country`s women...") and are inherently weaker than men ("Women are raped by men, which, given the inherent power differential between the sexes, raises women`s rape to another level of terror."). She also demeans men by suggesting that domestic skills are unnatural and unmanly ("We can debate whether they`re right until all our boys wear aprons...")
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