What this woman wants. This week.

Click to elarge What Women Want was a pretty awful 2000 film starring Mel Gibson as a man who can read the minds of women. Because only by reading their minds can men possibly understand what women want. It's a pretty insulting premise for a movie when you think about it.

I can't speak for all women because a) I don't know them all and b) even if I did, I seriously doubt that we would all agree on much of anything since the group "women" represents roughly half of the world's population, in all of its wonderful diversity.

So, speaking only for myself, this week I want Missouri legislators to recognize that Sharia law has no place in American democracy, not even in the Missouri General Assembly. Interns should not be required to don hijabs to protect politicians from their own overwhelming lust that apparently renders them helpless before a young woman, or man, in ordinary business attire. The sense of entitlement that allows these politicians to behave inappropriately toward interns has little to do with the behavior or appearance of the interns, but much to do with their own lack of adult control, as expressed here (via Chris Reeves):

“The culture of Jefferson City is very anything goes,” said former state Sen. John Lamping, a St. Louis County Republican who left office in 2014. “We’re in town three days a week, and we don’t work particularly late very often. So the mentality is, ‘Wow, this is so much fun. We’re doing crazier stuff than we did in college. But now we have power, prestige and money.’” Grow up. Keep your hands and your inappropriate behavior to yourselves and restrict your catcalling to public streets among strangers like all of the other juvenile males out there.

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