I have never considered Osama bin Laden a hottie on a horse.

Confession time, in all the years I have been widowed, never once did I lie in my bed at night and contemplate sexual relations with Osama bin Laden, or Hitler, or Mussolini, or even Che Guevara. Nor have I yet to meet the woman who could not differentiate between “Prince Charming” and Osama but apparently Frank at Mesopotamia West has issues telling them apart. I could start by saying living at 999Cave Avenue should be your first clue.

Anyhoo, Frank’s poises the question: are women natural born fascists and suggests the answer is the affirmative:

In all these cases, individual liberties were given up and handed over to the state.

Who today wants this to happen again? Why the women's movement. Women are against guns (owned privately) and for them used by police, transit police, Brinks guards and other 'official' men. Women are for state child care, state health care and state old age care. Women want food labeled, swing sets with non-lead paint, no trans-fats, no drinking and driving, no smoking, no pesticides, no this, no that and they want the state to enforce these (and other) rules. They want the state to be Daddy, the state to be the new tough man, to be the new Führer.

My daughter is a designated expert marksman and as far as I know no one has rescinded my mother’s license to be armed and dangerous but Frank’s really too rich to stop quoting now.

OK, back to where I started; why are Western women so quiet about aggressive, misogynistic, authoritarian, and murderous followers of, say, the Taliban, Hezbollah or Hamas?

I think it's because they secretly admire the macho male image of the Islamic ideologues in the same way they idolized Mussolini and Hitler. I think they'd like to be swept up by a scimitar-wielding horseman and carried off into the desert. I think they'd like to quit their day job and shop in some Saudi mall for gold trinkets. I think they'd like to stay home and share domestic duties with other 'wives.'

Uh-huh. Well, then – what can one say to that? But wait, it gets better in a ‘cannot help staring at the road kill lying in the road’ kind of way.

That's my point; women appear to be natural-born fascists; they sure love being carried off and cared for by some gorilla, or guerrilla, take your pick. This predilection may be the single greatest weakness we have in the war against terrorism. Our own women are cheering for the wrong side.

"Our own women are cheering for the wrong side". Let that one sink in. Gee dude. You finally answered the age old question; what do women really want. Women, all over the western world, are lying naked in their beds every night, over wrought with desire and waiting with bated breathe - for the night Osama will finally come crashing through the door to carry us off to his cave in the desert. Where he will ravish us unmercifully until we beg for release or is it a beheading???

You got to read the whole thing. Thank G-d, I didn’t ever join the Blogging Tories. Stephen Taylor you must be so proud. There is a reason why the Conservative Party has failed to resonate with women in this country, and the blatant misogynistic tendencies of all the ‘Franks’ in the party are a huge part of the reason why.