
Yesterday we noted that female bloggers are frequently subject to comments about their sex lives. Of course, this happens to women in old media as well — as evinced by one conservative writer’s vicious and lame takedown of Maureen Dowd . At issue here (ostensibly) is the sports-heavy culture of the Obama White House . American Spectator Editor-in-Chief R. Emmett Tyrrell , Jr. is no big fan of Obama , but he does want to defend the President against “ladies” who have the nerve to roll their eyes at an all-male White House basketball game and a general atmosphere of sports fandom. Criticizing the woman who told the Times “that her relative indifference to athletics could be mildly alienating,” he writes, Would it have helped if the President had invited this troubled …