Aren't double standards fun?

Apparently a couple of writers from "Sex and the City" have published a book advising women about men called He's Just Not That Into You. It sounds like there's some good common sense advice there, but that's not what I want to rant about. No, it's author Liz Tuccillo's assertation that a woman should never ask a guy out. Finally the very rare woman is going against that stupid double standard in recent years and having the courage to ask a guy out instead of vice-versa all the time, and along comes someone like Ms. Tucillo with her highly publicized advice to never, ever do it.

Sure Liz, you want the guy to always be the one to take all the risk in breaking the ice. It's so much easier that way. The man is the one who has to take that risk of rejection and ask the woman out, obviously as it should be, in your opinion. Fortunately for women quite a few guys realize that society's standard requires them to be the one to ask, so they do it. It's not really "fair", but it's the way things are so we have to deal with it. Too bad some people actively reinforce it.

In other news, a California school allegedly prevented a teacher from passing out material with any references at all to God or Christianity on them, including excerpts from the Declaration of Independence and other work of the Founding Fathers. Wow... just... wow... what the hell are they thinking?