What It Means to Be a Lady in America

If it's Thursday, that means Peggy Noonan is opining on the Wall Street Journal op-ed page, and that always is a welcome thing. In her column today she shares her view that

America has become creepy for women who think of themselves as ladies. It has in fact become assaultive.

I myself haven't worn heels since I went to a Halloween Party in drag many moons ago, but this gentleman, who was taught to treat ladies as ladies and therefore was taught well, shares per pain, which is excacerbated by undergoing unnecessarily humiliating airport security checks.

Noonan concludes with not a little gravitas by saying:

Do I think this way, in these terms, because I am exceptionally virtuous? Oh no. I'm below average in virtue, and even I know it's all gotten low and rough and disturbed.

Lent began yesterday, and I mean to give up a great deal, as you would too if you were me. One of the things I mean to give up is the habit of thinking it and not saying it. A lady has some rights, and this happens to be one I can assert.

"You are embarrassing the angels." This is what I intend to say for the next 40 days whenever I see someone who is hurting the culture, hurting human dignity, denying the stature of a human being. I mean to say it with belief, with an eye to instruction, but also pointedly, uncompromisingly. As a lady would. All invited to join in.