If you have been listening recently to Rush Limbaugh's radio show, you know that an approval poll conducted by the Public Policy Polling group, about the radio talk show host, exposed a "Gender Gap" of -31 percent among female participants.

So, Rush conducted a Female Summit, modeled after the ineffective Economic Summit that President Obama held a few weeks ago, to find out why women dislike him in greater numbers than men.  Unfortunately, similar to Obama's conference, the results of Rush's Summit were lackluster.  This was through no fault of Limbaugh's.

Devoting time on his radio show, and only taking female callers, Rush reached out to the "gentler sex" for answers.  Most of the callers who liked Rush, expressed annoyance and impatience with women who dislike him (Amen, sister!).  Most of the callers who dislike Rush, expressed annoyance and impatience with what they called his "pomposity" and "self-conceit".  These, of course, are red herrings.

Instead, here is the one word that correctly answers the question:  Why do women hate Rush Limbaugh in greater numbers than men? 

Mediocrity.

The question then becomes:  Why do women accept mediocrity as their standard, more so than men?

The answer is simple again:  Feminism.

Feminism, like most groupthink mentalities designed by the Left, has conditioned society to accept women at lower standards than men.  In the workplace, in academic institutions, within marriage, and in the home.

There are very blatant signs of lower standards, such as the severely diminished physical capabilities required of women when they join the military.  But in the daily life of the average American woman, the acceptance of mediocrity as our standard is much more subtle but still as pervasive.  From our diminished role as partners within our marriages, to the "Nurse Ratchet" depiction of women on TV sitcoms (Think: Everybody Loves Raymond) and in commercials, lowering our standards and expectations becomes written in our subconscious.

These lower standards allow women to achieve success within our society by doing less and reasoning less than our male counterparts.

This creates subtle, but effective, strains of mediocrity within our own minds.  We then condition ourselves to accept our own successes and achievements through sub-standard performance.  And so we maintain this level of performance, because we have bought into the idea that mediocrity is all it takes to be successful women.  Not successful individuals. 

We stunt our own minds and our own ambition, by asking no more of ourselves.  We become complacent with our own status quo.

And acceptance of the status quo, in this case within the female mind, breeds contempt and envy of all men and women who display brilliance, and who strive for more.  What better symbol of brilliance and  rationality is there within the public realm, than Rush Limbaugh, the man who single-handedly breathed life into a dying medium of communication and achieved monumental success?

The unwillingness to acknowledge and respect Limbaugh's achievements is a sign that contempt and envy can cloud our judgment and provide resistance to clear reason and rationality within our minds. 

Because while it is true that in the reality of public policies, feminism seeks to punish men for their success, the real victims of feminism are those women who cannot recognize brilliance in anyone, most importantly within themselves. 

Feminism does not empower women because it does not acknowledge a woman's ability to succeed on her own merit.  It makes women slaves to our sex, slaves to lower expectations and slaves to a life of mediocrity.

On the other hand, women who choose to use reason and free will to guide their lives do not hate Rush for one simple reason.  He is a mirror for us.  We see rational, intellectual thought and analysis when we look into that mirror. 

If women who dislike Rush would remove the yolk of feminism, no matter how subtle or subconscious the strains are, and allow their own rational minds to empower their lives they would not dislike Rush Limbaugh.

Instead, they would "rush" to sip from the same grail of success.  They would find that they can achieve that success.  And they would be truly free women.

Side note:  Incidentally, feminism gave rise to the phenomenon of metrosexuals in our society, by inviting men to be mediocres as well.  These are men who, like groundhogs, are scared of their own shadows.  They are the height of mediocrity because they cannot perform the role of either sex well.  They are scared to allow themselves to fail at being "men" and unable/unwilling to physically become women.  Instead they are lost in a mindless purgatory of feminine beautification and masculine anatomy.  (I am assuming there are few metrosexuals who will also claim to be Dittoheads.  Can you blame them for recognizing in Rush the man they wish they had the courage to be?)