WOULD THE PRESENCE OF WOMEN AGENTS HAVE CHANGED THE MALE SECRET SERVICE AGENTS’ BEHAVIOR IN COLUMBIA?

On Sunday’s ABC This Week, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Main, and Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-NY, suggested that diversifying the male culture of the Secret Service with more female agents would probably discourage behaviors like the ones that led to the prostitution scandal in Columbia. And on Tuesday’s NBC Today, Rosie O’Donnell agreed, saying that men use prostitutes and women don’t.

Sen. Collins and Rep. Maloney are deluding themselves if they believe that more women in the Secret Service (or law enforcement as a whole) would change the male culture of carousing around while off-duty. Women cops, in order to prove themselves to their fellow male officers, will often try to out-man the men they work with.

One of my students, a beautiful young lady, would come to class every couple of weeks or so, sporting a black eye or other visible bruises. She always said, “Yeah, but the asshole looks a lot worse than I do.” She would go out of her way to get down and dirty with her fellow cops anytime a physical confrontation occurred and she continued to do so long after having gained the respect and admiration of her fellow officers. And she usually joined them at their favorite bar after her shift was over.

And what’s this crap about the male culture? I’ve got news for Collins and Maloney. If they believe that carousing around is primarily a male thing, have I got news for them. Apparently they’ve never attended an out-of-town convention of policewomen, teachers or nurses.

I used to attend the annual conferences of the California Peace Officers Association. CPOA would hold its conference in the same location and at the same time as the annual conference of the Women Peace Officers’ Association of California. And, man-oh-man, many of those women, including married ones, ran around like a bunch of dogs in heat. Talk about carousing around - they were masters at it.

As a former educator, I also attended a number of teachers conferences. Same thing! Get the women teachers out of town and they get all boozed up and hooked up. And my doctor friends tell me it’s the same with nurses at their annual conferences.

And what about Rosie O’Donnell and her dumbass statement that men use prostitutes and women don’t? Duh, of course women don’t use prostitutes – they don’t need to! If they want to get laid, all they have to do is wink at some guy and they’ll be in the sack in a hot New York minute. It doesn’t work that way with men though.

There is no doubt in my mind that this is not the first instance in which Secret Service agents have caroused around. What was different this time is that one stupid jerk of an agent refused to pay the prostitute that serviced him – and the rest is history.

I seriously doubt that the carousing around in Columbia would not have occurred had there been women on that Secret Service detail. A few of the women agents would probably have hooked up with some of the male agents. And because they would want to be accepted as part of the team, the women would not have tried to stop any of the male agents from hooking up with prostitutes.

Sen. Collins and Rep. Maloney should abandon their gender agenda and accept the fact that while boys will be boys, girls in law enforcement will be boys too.