Setting aside the dated pop culture references, Dowd seems to be under the impression that women are some sort of monolithic hive-brain who are swooning over the archetypical bad boy out of some primitive need to be clubbed over the head and taken care of by their mate … or their elected officials.

Of course, women aren’t part of the Borg, so I can’t speak for all of us, but as a woman my vote is cast not on the basis of which candidate might win in a bar brawl, but who is speaking to the issues in a way that shows they might have at least the slightest insight into the challenges faced by women in America.