“If it insulted people, that was not the intent,” Outlook editor John Pomfret told me this morning, calling the piece “tongue-in-cheek.”



Pomfret said that Allen pitched the idea to him as a riff on women fainting at Obama rallies, and similarities with the Beatles.



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“She wanted to make fun of this issue,” Pomfret said. “A lot of people have taken it very seriously.”

So remember Charlotte Allen's epically horrible column from yesterday's? Sure you do! Because you're a humorless feminist, and you just can't take a joke. And it wasa joke! Just ask WaPo Outlook Editor John Pomfret See, it was a joke! Ha-ha, super-funny! And it wouldn't have been as funny if it hadn't included a litany of easily-disproven stereotypes about women and a closing argument that women are "kind of dim," now, would it?Besides, it's not like Charlotte Allen has a history of attacking women for being...Who's there? Why, it's Feministing editor Jessica Valenti ! What's that, Jessica? You have something to share?