Women can be tough hawks and neocons. But they still aren’t very good at math.

I like Judith Weiss of Kesher Talk, even if she doesn’t like me very much. I don’t agree with most of what she says, but Judith is eloquent, witty (not entirely unheard of for a moderate feminist), spunky, and kinda cute (not uncommon at all for a neocon woman).

But her arithmetic skills are not quite as sharp as her writing skills.

Weiss fears a “feminist backlash� over the fact that “nearly six out of ten� bachelor’s degrees will be awarded to women this June, as reported in the New Republic. But she thinks that we should all “calm down,� as six out of ten only translates into “slightly more than half.�

Comments were quickly made on her site to explain that 6 to 4 is, in fact, a 1.5 to 1 ratio, which is not “slightly more than half,� but rather, a “significant difference,� and a reasonable cause for concern.

However, as a graduate of YU, I can personally attest to the fact that if I did it all over again, I would prefer to have an undergraduate campus environment with exactly this sort of gender ratio. Six out of ten sounds a hell of a lot better than zero out of ten!

But I still might join in the “feminist backlash.�

Because I’m a hypocrite like that.