Pat Dollard | Young Americans

Al Sharpton vs. NY Post here.

The WaPo (on the heels of the NY Post’s “monkey business”) preemptively apologizes for some obscure insult a cartoon depiction of an “ape” may cause someone … anyone … in this country that might believe it to be a caricature of someone (perhaps in a government office?) … I think.

The apology:

WaPo:

Editor’s Note

The headline, illustration and text of “Below the Beltway,” a column in The Washington Post Magazine today, may cause offense to readers. The magazine was printed before a widely publicized incident last week in which a chimpanzee attacked and badly mauled a woman in Stamford, Conn. In addition, the image and text inadvertently may conjure racial stereotypes that The Post does not countenance. We regret the lapse.

The article with cartoon:

WaPo:

Monkey Business

The good news for men: Women love apes

In a study described recently in the New York Times, men and women were shown various types of sexually explicit videos, and sensors were attached to their private parts to measure their physical arousal. The subjects were also asked to rate their degree of arousal themselves.

The study found that men were completely predictable: Straight men reported they were turned on only by images of women, and the machine confirmed that. Same with gay men and images of men. But while women of both orientations reported similarly gender-specific responses, the machine called them liars. The sensors reported that all women were turned on by absolutely everything … including videos of bonobos having sex. Bonobos are apes.

The Times treated this as social anthropology. The story droned on for what seemed like 200 pages and wrestled with grave epistemological issues involving the Cartesian nexus of mind and body. I opted instead for a few minutes on the phone with my friend Gina Barreca, the feminist scholar …

(Continue reading, but the non-controversy is more about the cartoon)

Michelle Malkin has more …