On the inaccessible [no place for comments that I could find] "Family Scholars Blog" of the "Institute for American Values," Brad Wilcox, who never saw a stay at home mom study he didn't like, advises me to "Call My Office," because, gasp, that pioneering neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine has wrapped it all up in The Female Brain. Here's Brad on the female brain:

"THE FEMALE BRAIN

Linda Hirshman, call your office. A slew of books have been coming out from (mainly female) scholars discussing the way in which sex differences are linked to differences in social behavior and perceptions among men and women, with a big focus on the implications of sex differences for family life. Scholars who deny this biological reality are increasingly coming to look like fundamentalists who deny evolution."

One would think that a tenured or tenure track sociologist at a first rate university like the University of Virginia would be a little careful about comparing The Evolution of Species to a book that relies on Erma Bombeck. Of course Brad did not have the benefit of University of Pennsylvania Professor Mark Liberman's devastating debunking of the Brizendine nonsense. See my post of yesterday, awarding her the First Annual "More Likely to Be Killed By A Terrorist than Marry Retraction" Award for 2006 for the idiotic Female . . . Brain.