Keying in on an op-ed that makes the remarkable complaint that increasing the number of women applying for college increases the competition between women for those seats, Mr. Tierney makes his case for Affirmative Action for White Boys.

I am amused.

The admissions director at Kenyon College, Jennifer Delahunty Britz, published an Op-Ed article this week revealing an awkward truth about her job: affirmative action for boys. As the share of the boys in the applicant pool keeps shrinking — it will soon be down to 40 percent nationally — colleges are admitting less-qualified boys in order to keep the gender ratio balanced on campus.

Let's take a look at what Ms. Britz said.

The elephant that looms large in the middle of the room is the importance of gender balance. Should it trump the qualifications of talented young female applicants? At those colleges that have reached what the experts call a "tipping point," where 60 percent or more of their enrolled students are female, you'll hear a hint of desperation in the voices of admissions officers.

Beyond the availability of dance partners for the winter formal, gender balance matters in ways both large and small on a residential college campus. Once you become decidedly female in enrollment, fewer males and, as it turns out, fewer females find your campus attractive.

So this is a business decision...as is appropriate, sine the business of America is America. Tierney the Libertarian rails mightily against market forces.

Not that Ms. Britz gets off clean. You're going to love this:

What are the consequences of young men discovering that even if they do less, they have more options?

"discovering?"

And what messages are we sending young women that they must, nearly 25 years after the defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment, be even more accomplished than men to gain admission to the nation's top colleges?

That the lack of such an amendment is no more than an accurate reflection of the circumstances at hand. That we'd defeat the damn amendment again.

Ms. Britz having set him up, Mr. Tierney proves the power of the patriachal form of white supremacy we're all so familiar with.

But the chief "equity" issue at their college is the shortage of men, who make up barely a fifth of the student body. What happened to the boys who didn't make it?

Boys are, on average, as smart as girls, but they are much less fond of school. They consistently receive lower grades, have more discipline problems and are more likely to be held back for a year or placed in special education classes. The Harvard economist Brian Jacob attributes these problems to boys' lack of "noncognitive skills," like their difficulties with paying attention in class, their disorganization and their reluctance to seek help from others.

Those are serious handicaps, but they could be mitigated if schools became more boy-friendly.

So after centuries of preference for males, a few decades of increased attention to others and white males fall to the back of the pack?

Is that what you're saying Mr. Tierney?

Like I said...I am amused.  But only for a moment. Because this naked display of fear for the collective status of white males by a movement conservative explains a lot.