Is the sister a board-certified ob-gyn, or did she just certify herself?

According to Rand Paul, not only are women doing fine, not they're oppressing men. "I believe in equal rights and all, but I never thought I'd see the day when you gals would be out-competing us.

I think he was extrapolating from those examples to medical and law school rates. He is doing so to mask the RNC/Tea Party's efforts to push women back. It's noticeable that he's taking no credit for women's advancement. He'd say it wasn't government's job, but why it is their job to fight against it and tried to hold women back? In any case, this is definitely the RNC/Tea Party trying out a new attack and thinking ahead to why Hilary is not needed.

"Approach to feminism" ? More like an approach to the kinds of women who usually vote Republican but have been scared off by the war on women. They can relate to this kind of anecdote because they, too, are born on third base and think they hit a triple.

@1 I don't know, but you should see me try to explain it to the one I'm married to.

I hear the Republican Party also has black friends.

Rand Paul: "I'm not a misogynist, but ... "

yes, progress is being made, no thanks to your party's willful ignorance and active hostility.

thanks for taking credit, randall.

For conservatives, reality is merely anecdotal. I have a good job, ergo anyone can have one. My sister never got knocked up and had an abortion, ergo abortion clinics aren't necessary. I don't need public assistance, ergo no one needs public assistance. I know someone who claims to have been mugged by a black guy, ergo all black guys are criminal, and I need a gun. Ad naseum.
Seattleblues entire comment history is a prime example of this.

Yes, women are doing well in college and, they say, the income gap is narrowing and they're outcompeting men. Hence we need the War On Women. We gotta correct that.

@11, great point. Occasionally a Republican will discover they have a gay family member, and suddenly they're ok with gay marriage. It's great when that happens, but their inability to empathize with or understand the problems of people outside of their own circle is maddening.

I guess this means he's opening all those medical care facilities Republicans have closed now that their war on women is over.

@12, exactly. Rand Paul is actively working to put those numbers back the way they ought to be, 100% male doctors and lawyers. I don't think too many women are being fooled, and I'll bet not too many of the young women in Cornell and elsewhere are going to vote for Rand Paul or whoever else the Republicans throw up anytime soon.

I like how Rand had to reach out to the Clinton years to claim that democrats (ie: Bill Clinton) had a war on women (one woman) when Bill got a BJ in the Oval Office and lied about it. Why not reach back even further to 1992 when Bob Packwood had to resign. That guy was the poster child for Office Sexual Predator. Remember when he said his dairy would prove him innocent, only to find out he removed dozens of pages from it?

A quick skimming of info shows that about 50% of peeps in Cornell get scholarships or grants. Is Rand okay with those who use gov't grants to attend?

Extrapolation of sociological phenomena by anecdote is an uniformed conservative/plutocrat/liar's go-to method of mansplaining the world.

@18: Yeah. For them, the plural of "anecdote" is "data".

I wouldn't be so cocky that that we "own" the women vote.

Once again 44% of registered female voters voted GOP in 2012. That is a disturbingly high number or women voting against their own interests. It may be shrinking, but it's not shrinking fast enough.

Clearly women ARE voting for whoever the Republicans "throw up." And that is a huge problem and I don't think we democrats have been all that great at reaching those women.

10, this is great propaganda. You offer statistics w/ no contexts, thereby allowing your insinuations to stick as "reality." You've created doubt that women have great difficulties in our culture that men don't face, along with creating sympathy for those men, because, gee, suicide or something.

If you want to inform, and not dictate, then provide context for those studies. Why are male suicide rates different? What are the causes? What are the demographics? Age, income level, region, etc. You also don't give an overall picture of the culture, just bland stats that suggest your narrative, "But, but... men have it bad, too! Therefore feminists are wrong!" Truth is, you don't provide any information of value. Break down those stats, give them context & then get back to us.

@10: Pointing out that men are more likely to go to prison is dumb. Really? We know why men are more likely to go to prison; it's because we males have higher testosterone and are therefore more aggressive, a situation exacerbated by societal ideals of the manly man.

@16: Remember when he said his dairy would prove him innocent, only to find out he removed dozens of pages from it?

Don't you mean he removed dozens of cows from it? Nyuk, Nyuk.