SEXISM IN THE NEWS: So on ABC’s This Week, as people talk about single motherhood, abandoned kids, and so on, we get this interchange:

ROBERTS: — the reason the numbers have changed so dramatically on this, first of all, that ideal isn’t true in all kinds of families that (INAUDIBLE) being what it is and the abandoned mothers.

But it is also true — I mean, if we got — if we got better men, we’d be in better shape.

But the —

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No disagreement there.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No disagreement here either.

If a male reporter said that we need better women — which is just as true — would female journalists fall all over themselves to express agreement? Nope, they’d pile all over the man who said it. But supplication-of-females is the media way, now.

UPDATE: A reader in the comments says that it’s time to plug my wife’s book again. Good point.