Stein: How to apologize to a feminist (MoDo)

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Hilarious. This is the same dude who was Tweety's guest back when MTV's clip of Britney SPEARS shedding her duds was running over and over and Tweety was drooling. STEIN said, "You're beginning to creep me out." And Tweety replied, "Yeah, well, wait till YOU're fifty."

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http://www.latimes.com/news/columnists/la-oe-stein3jan03,1,6097349.column?coll=la-news-columns

Joel Stein:
How to apologize to a feminist

.... Goulet read Dowd's column to me out loud, in a Broadway baritone that made it sound like the tale of the knights of the Round Table. Next to nearly every sentence he had jotted "Wow!" Unfortunately, in my column I described Goulet's outpouring of love as "giving her more wows than Michael Douglas ever did." Douglas is Dowd's ex-boyfriend and current legal guardian to Catherine Zeta-Jones.

This, as you probably noticed, was not a particularly clever joke. It also was not that nice. These are things that Maureen Dowd noticed as well. ....

It is surprisingly easy to reach Maureen Dowd. It is, however, surprisingly difficult to apologize to her. I started by admitting the joke was a cheap shot, to which she grunted in agreement.

Mostly though, for the entire conversation, she did the reporter trick of not talking so I'd keep babbling and saying more incriminating things. By the time I hung up, I was pretty sure I'd made things worse. ....

I have since employed various people in Washington and New York to call me whenever Dowd is at a restaurant so I can have a bottle of unwanted chardonnay sent to her table. I do not think a court of law could rule this as some kind of wine stalking, but I am not afraid to find out. ....

She may believe, as she says in her book, that men are put off by women in power — that her Pulitzer cost her dates. But, to me, it just makes her hotter. ....

I know that's going to cost me another bottle of chardonnay. But it's worth it.

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[zbdent]

1. so, could this writer score

with either the ladies or the men at all?