Are Men Necessary?

[Dr. Shane]

Is Maureen Dowd Necessary?

...in a much talked about excerpt of her new book, Are Men Necessary?... she bemoans a perceived return of 1950s values and courtship rituals and portrays a younger generation of women as grasping, shallow housewife wannabes and "yummy mommies." In the most inflammatory and intriguing passages, she claims that men are put off by women in power, that they prefer the women who serve them—maids, masseuses, and secretaries—to their equals. She attributes the fact that she is unmarried to her powerful position as an op-ed columnist at the New York Times. Then she notes her own family history of domestic service and concludes that "being a maid would have enhanced my chances with men."

...Much of what Dowd observes in the piece is true—the nostalgic passion for the 1950s, the increasing number of educated women opting to be housewives or change their names when they marry, the success of books like The Rules. And yet, somehow, the alarmist portrait she draws of female life feels skewed...

[Bravus]

I'm sure there *are* men who are intimidated by a succesful woman. I don't think *every* man is, so there must be some other explanation for Ms Dowd's single state. Could it be that some women *assume* men are intimidated by their success?