Mark Steyn’s column on the gender bias against Senator Clinton starts out pretty funny, but moves on to very serious matters. Here are some of the funny bits:

Democratic women are feeling metaphorically battered by the Obama campaign. “Healing The Wounds Of Democrats’ Sexism,” as the Boston Globe headline put it, will not be easy. Geraldine Ferraro is among many prominent Democrat ladies putting up their own money for a study from the Shorenstein Center at Harvard to determine whether Sen. Clinton’s presidential hopes fell victim to party and media sexism.

How else to explain why their gal got clobbered by a pretty boy with a resume you could print on the back of his driver’s license, a Rolodex apparently limited to neosegregationist race-baiters, campus Marxist terrorists and indicted fraudsters, and a rhetorical surefootedness that makes Dan Quayle look like Socrates.

“On this Memorial Day,” said Barack Obama last Monday, “as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes – and I see many of them in the audience here today.” Hey, why not? In Obama’s Cook County, Ill., many fallen heroes from the Spanish-American War still show up in the voting booths come November.

However, the column doesn’t stay light and breezy. It makes the serious point that the value many societies in the world place on the lives and status of women seems to be on a downward arc. “Enlightened progressives take it for granted that social progress is like technological progress – that women’s rights are like the internal combustion engine or the jet airplane: once invented they can’t be uninvented. But that’s a careless assumption.” Steyn’s demographic statistics to back up his claim are food for thought.

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