“We scream, we swoon” — Are we dumb, ladies?

Here I am in my non-newspaper reading bubble (I thought Morning Edition kept me up to speed) while a furious internet debate rages over the Washington Post’s Sunday editorial on gender and politics.

“What is it about us women? Why do we always fall for the hysterical, the superficial and the gooily sentimental?” writes Charlotte Allen, in “We Scream, We Swoon. How Dumb Can We Get?”

She writes, “Clinton [has a] nearly all-female staff, chosen for loyalty rather than, say, brains or political savvy. Clinton finally fired her daytime-soap-watching, self-styled “Latina queena” campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle, known for burning through campaign money and for her open contempt for the “white boys” in the Clinton camp. But stupidly, she did it just in time to alienate the Hispanic voters she now desperately needs to win in Texas or Ohio to have any shot at the Democratic nomination.”

But this rhetoric is nothing compared to the comments this article has generated. Check it out:

“I love some of the comments on this wall from women. I can actually hear them sobbing infront of their pink Apple monitors right now. It just proves the point the women act on thier immediate emotions too fast, and are unable to control it.”

Others write in, pointing out, “Isn’t there enough misogyny in the world without it being perpetrated by other women?”