Dudes I Like: Op-Ed Style

At last, an Op-Ed we can all get behind! Roommate Katey brought this one to my attention--it is, of course, by Bob Herbert:
...who is probably the Best Person with a Times Op-Ed column (next to Kristof, I guess, but he's a serious do-gooder). Today's topic: politics and misogyny. But he's not talking about everyone's attacks on Clinton--he's talking about how politicians (including Hill) don't address or do anything about the gross misogyny that pervades society.

This is not the first time that Herbert has used his column to decry misogyny in areas where others ignore it. I really appreciated his piece after the Virginia Tech tragedy about how misogyny is integral to many such shootings. Herbert is very attuned to prejudice in our society--especially the kinds that most people regard as subtle or ingrained but that should be considered, by any reasonable society, obviously outrageous. He never pits gender against race, and his writing on both subjects (among others) is among the clearest, most disciplined there is to be found these days.

This column, like many of his, is a little 101, and Herbert's take on pornography and prostitution is not nuanced. But his passionate, straightforwardly expressed belief that women are NOT second-class citizens and objects of degradation always gives one hope, even in the face of the most distressing news about rape, murder, and humiliation.

Bob, there should be more like you.