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Article: Kathleen Parker: White House should include boys in examining impact of policies
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- Oakland Tribune
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- March 19, 2009
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Editors note -- Ruben Navarrette Jr., is on vacation.
WITH A FLICK OF his pen, President Barack Obama finally laid to
rest Freud's most famous question and iterated one of man's hardest-
won lessons: Women want what women want.
And the wise man sayeth: "Yes, dear."
Thus, it came to pass that the president created the White House
Council on Women and Girls to ensure that all Cabinet-level agencies
consider how their policies affect women and families. Presumably,
men and boys may expect to benefit from what is helpful to women and
girls. We shall see.
There's little profit in criticizing a move to make life better
for the fairer sex. Still, one does have to suppress a chortle as we
pretend ...