New York Times Maureen Dowd: Menial Labour

Calgary Herald Dept: Scarcely had the news broken that a hotel maid alleged that DSK as he is known in France had sexually assaulted her, than female columnists had virtually convicted him in print. A few men did, too, but it is the women columnists' behaviour that is most troubling because they, as women, as feminists, supposedly abhor sexist stereotyping. Or so they say when they write about it happening to women, according to Calgary Herald. Sounds like Dowd must have been in the room herself, else how would she know this actually happened and now that the case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn looks set to fall apart, could the stereotypes please be laid to rest, too? All the columnists gave a dutiful nod to the phrase "if the allegations are true," but it was quite evident where they thought the truth lay. Consider this from the New York Times' Maureen Dowd, who wrote May 17: "Oh, she wanted it. She wanted it bad. That's what every hard-working, God-fearing, young widow who breaks her back doing menial labour at a Times Square hotel to support her teenage daughter, justify her immigration status and take advantage of the opportunities in America wants -a crazed, rutting, wrinkly old satyr charging naked out of a bathroom, lunging at her and dragging her around the room, caveman-style." As reported in the news.
@t dominique strauss kahn, times square hotel