Meet Charlotte Allen, the conservative writer who has caused quite a stir recently in her article that seems to detail why women really are dimmer than men. See her biography and photo here.

Charlotte Allen Is Conservative Writer

Charlotte Allen




Charlotte Allen’s latest article, “We Scream, We Swoon. How Dumb Can We Get?”, was published on Sunday, March 2, and the response has been incredible. Although, it probably wasn’t the response she was looking for, as everyone is pretty much angry over her statements of women’s inferiority. The Washington Post received hundreds of letters to the editor and more than 1,000 comments on the online article. More than 10,000 blogs have commented.

Charlotte Allen Biography

As a biography, Charlotte Allen graduated from both Stanford University and Harvard University. At Harvard, she held the Woodrow Wilson fellowship. In 1998, Allen’s book “The Human Christ: The Search for the Historical Jesus”, was published. The books looks at the varying portrayals of Jesus over the last several hundred years.

Charlotte Allen lives in Washington, D.C. She has written articles appearing in many publications, including The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post.

Allen seems to enjoy ruffling feathers, particularly when it comes to writing about women. In April 2005, she wrote in support of Harvard University President Lawrence Summers, who was in trouble after saying that innate differences between the sexes cause the lack of female presence in the sciences. She wrote,

The lesson that Larry Summers has taught us is that our academic and intellectual establishment is in the grip of a poisonous feminist ideology that will not tolerate open and rational discussion or genuine inquiry.

After a history like she has, it’s surprising that she tried to pass Sunday’s article, which chastised women for following Barack Obama like he was a Beatle in 1964, as “funny”.