Article: Boys are in even more distress than girls: ; How about a White House council for males?

WASHINGTON - 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 that the First Father's rescue of damsels ...

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