It's hard to be a white man

There ought to be no apologies for journalists who let sexism or machismo figure into their analysis. Chris Matthews gets rightly pilloried for applauding his female guests for their beauty or their style. But (now that the obligatory caveats are out of the way) it seems to me that there is a cottage industry of pablum like this out there, written almost exclusively by female journalists, that divides the male political set into knuckle-dragging neaderthals and fey, wimpy nerd boys. And while I can't actually say that this dichotomy is completely inaccurate, it's also not a particularly meaningful way to deconstruct the power structure.