Apologist for women, in so many words, blames women

Ms. Musings has a post this week about Rabbi Shmuley Boteach's book, Hating Women: America's Hostile Campaign Against the Fairer Sex. Rabbi Boteach delineates four negative stereotypes of women and then suggests that women "fight back" for their rightful place of honor. Ms. Musings also directs us to a column written by Rabbi Boteach, in which he uses Queer Eye for the Straight Guy to make a point about what is currently missing from men's education about how to be male.

The rabbi longs for the days when women taught men how to dress and how to act. Men could be civil again if only women would act like his mother did (which includes, by the way, at least one act of abusive behavior), or--at the very least--take some tips from the Fab Five. In other words, women must tame the beast or the hate will continue.

All that education, all those seminars, all that life experience, and the good rabbi just doesn't get it: It is not the responsibility of women to teach men how to act.