If I had my own Keith Olbermann style “Worst Person in the World” category, Courtland Malloy would certainly get it today. 

Malloy’s unbelievably offensive Washington Post column takes the parenting controversy stirred by Amy Chua’s new book, “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother” and adds his own, special misogynist take-away:  Apparently, the book is actually a cautionary tale about marriage. 

Specifically, Malloy posits that “Chua must have used everything in her arsenal of feminine charms to blind [her now-husband] Jed to the warning signs. The flick of a ponytail, perhaps, or a fluttered eyelash; a neckline revealed, a glimpse of leg, a shake of the hip?”  But at the end of the day, the poor innocent guy was tricked into marrying a “flesh eater.”

Poor, gullible men!  Why can’t women just let boys be boys? Why do can’t we just let men be themselves, and embrace be their primal selves, “like tigers in the wild”?

Malloy leaves us with this gem:

“… All the male cat has to do is have fun helping to make the cubs, then wander off while the tiger mom does all the raising. Sounds good at first, until you realize that human tiger moms don’t play that. Beware, young men. It’s a jungle out there.”

You literally can’t make this stuff up.

Full column here.  You’ve been warned.

-Nicole