All The Single Ladies

All The Single Ladies is the title of Rebecca Traister's forthcoming book. Deduct points for lack of originality. Not only is that the name of a famous Beyonce song, it is also the same title as a book released just six months ago. All The Single Ladies is a novel published last year by Dorothea Benton Frank that, according to Amazon, is "charming, evocative, soul-touching."

Traister's book, on the other hand, is sure to be a poorly sourced and fallaciously reasoned polemic.

But it does have the advantage being a feminist polemic. And that confers advantages of its own, like being bedside reading for Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the one Supreme Court Justice all the spinsters and their allies swoon over.

Pretty excited to be reading an interview with @irin about #NotoriousRBG & find that she's reading my book: https://t.co/jLD4FRxyLo

— Rebecca Traister (@rtraister) January 21, 2016

It's easy to see why old maids would revere Ginsburg: her thinly-veiled contempt for the U.S. Constitution. Ginsburg told an Egyptian audience, in 2012, not to use the U.S. Constitution as a model for their country. Harridans like Ginsburg could never accept that the U.S. Constitution is a document that tells the government what it cannot do to its citizens.

Unmarried shrews want the Constitution to enumerate exactly what the government will do for them. That's why the term "single ladies" is a misnomer. They just substitute the government for a husband.

Which is funny, since Rebecca Traister is married and Ruth Bader Ginsburg was married for 56 years. What's even funnier is that the Beyonce song isn't a celebration of liberated single women. The club staple that gets women out of their seats is a reminder to men that "If you liked it then you should've put a ring on it."

It's baffling how a writer like Traister is celebrated when her writing is so terrible. She wrote an article last month entitled The Election and the Death Throes of White Male Power. Traister contends that Donald Trump and all the Republican contenders believe "that abortion should be illegal."

Pure demagoguery and fear-mongering. Being pro-life doesn't mean that all abortion should be illegal. Traister laments 2015 as being a "scary blur" and the election cycle as full of "blaring optics." How can optics be blaring? Perhaps glaring, but blaring is an audio cue.

Traister asserts that this is "a nation where women who were not permitted to cast votes still live and breathe." The legal voting age for adults in 1920 was twenty-one years old. So yes, there are exactly four women alive today who were of legal voting age in 1920, because they were born in the 1800's. Gertrude Weaver, who was born in 1898, should have been eligible to register to vote in 1919, but had to wait a whole year for the nineteenth amendment to be ratified.

From the looks of her, I think she has let the injustice go. For Traister, the old injustices will never be overwritten. They will forever be carrying forward their anger at those evil white men.

For me, I think the nineteenth amendment was a mistake. Not because women shouldn't vote. But because once one party discovered their advantage among unmarried women, they set about hammer and tongs to destroy marriage.

Oh, and Becky? You can drop the fake surprise to "find" that Ginsburg was reading your book. It doesn't come out for two more months. Ginsburg didn't happen to see your book at Barnes & Noble and buy it. The only way your pre-release book reaches a Supreme Court Justice is if a publicist at Simon & Schuster arranges it. Just stop.