Remember Charlotte "women are dumb" Allen? Now she's crashing Halloween!

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In 2008, Charlotte Allen of the Independent Women's Forum got a lot of flak for publishing an article in the Washington Post "We Scream, We Swoon. How Dumb Can We Get?" giving credence to the misogynistic position that men are smarter than women. Now she's back (err...a certain Elton John song comes to mind?) with another moaning load of verbal brainlessness: "" (LA Times) (found via Man Boobz and Amanda Marcotte) trying to find hypocrisy in feminist support for SlutWalks (protests against the "she deserved it" attitude aimed towards rape victims) who later criticize skimpy Halloween costumes:

The reality is that men's sexual responses are highly susceptible to visual stimuli, and women, who are also sexual beings, like to generate those stimuli by displaying as much of their attractive selves as social mores or their own personal moral codes permit. In Victorian times that meant flashing an ankle every now and then. Now, it means … whatever. It's no wonder that SlutWalks have quickly outstripped (as it were) Take Back the Night as anti-rape protest. Women get another chance besides Halloween to dress up like prostitutes!

See the linked MB and AM blogs for rational criticisms from this nonsense.