Of late, I've been reading an interesting book by Eyal Press called Absolute Convictions. It details the battle over abortion rights in Buffalo and the USA during the 1980s and 1990s. For those who recall, Dr. Barnett Slepian was murdered by James Kopp, an ultra-right wing zealot who believed that violence was the solution to the problem. Press' father, Dr. Shalom Press, worked with Slepian, and was next on "the list," according to federal marshals.

One of the points that Press makes quite eloquently is that a lot of white males go around making presumptive decisions for the women of the world. How gracious of them! Those women must not know how lucky they are.

Let's fast-forward to the year 2006, and what do we find, on a much less important front? A number of white male bloggers criticizing the decisions of a teenage girl who wants to do something no other teenage (or adult) girl or woman has ever done in the world of golf.

SHAME ON THEM! How dare they pretend to know anything more than what resorts provide which ammenities to how many people? What could they ever know about being Korean on a Hawaiian island, with supportive parents who encourage her to achieve the most distant goal? Imagine if these same white, male writers were told that blogging was all they were good at, and that they could not even attempt to write a feature-length article or, stars above, a book or novel. I shudder to think of the type of parents, siblings, or uncles that these bloggers might make one day, if they are to deny their own the same opportunities that they deny Michelle Wie.

LET THIS END! MICHELLE WIE CAN ATTEMPT TO QUALIFY FOR ANY EVENT SHE CHOOSES, AND IT IS UP TO YOU, BLOGGERS, TO FIND SOME OTHER, RELEVANT, ANGLE OR TOPIC TO DISCUSS.

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