'BORING' IS EXCITING: Sandhogs celebrate their dramatic breakthrough on the No. 7 train tunnel yesterday.

LAST MONTH, in an interview with the ever-incisive Katie Couric, Gloria Steinem noted, while offering a philosophical overview of contemporary society and world history, that there are relatively few women plumbers. This insight struck me like a lightening bolt. It showed that Ms. Steinem continues to be a penetrating thinker. Now, I have never met a single woman who wanted to become a plumber, let alone a woman who wanted to become a plumber but was prevented from fulfilling her dreams, but Ms. Steinem is probably very plugged in to the feminine plumbing subculture. Almost everything that is humanly possible exists in this world and I don’t doubt there are one or two frustrated women who have unclogged drains since early childhood and have longed, to no avail, to commit themselves to the lonely, back-breaking labor of the plumber’s life.

I am here to tell you that it is not just plumbing that remains a closed field to women.

Look at this New York Post photo of the crew that just completed a new subway tunnel in New York City. Does something seem amiss? You are right. There are no women in this picture. Where was Ms. Steinem when this photo was taken? Her presence was needed. Ladies, oppression is real. It is real and ongoing. From the bowels of the earth, men are ruling the world.

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Ulysses writes:

There was a husband/wife plumbing team in the town in which I grew up. I know nothing of this woman’s politics, but I’m guessing she was not enthralled that society had reached a point such that she could spend her days dirty and tending to clogged drains.

Jim B. writes:

Shhh. Don’t talk too loud about the lack of female sandhogs, (or the fact that all the 11 killed in the BP oil rig explosion were men), or the companies involved will be forced to hire women, for the same pay, to dress up in the same clothes and stand around and watch the men do the work (until they get promoted to supervisory positions in air-conditioned offices, of course.)

Do you know what the firefighter (note that that is now the preferred nomenclature, rather than “fireman”) term for a female firefighter is? Firewatcher.

Laura writes:

Ha! Ha!

But, Ms. Steinem let the cat out of the bag and I’m afraid the Old Boy plumbing network is doomed. I think this is exactly the sort of injustice Our Eternal Feminist Godmother wanted to correct. There are no women watching male plumbers work. That’s not right.

Lawrence Auster writes:

Speaking of Gloria Steinem and the demand for female firemen, long ago in a TV program on this issue the interviewer pointed out to Steinem that women do not have the strength to carry a victim out of a fire over their shoulder, and Steinem replied (I kid you not), “Well, they can drag them instead.” 

It was absolute proof that the feminists do not care about reality, do not care about the consequences of their policies. They want sex equality, regardless of the results.

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