It's a bit odd to see this coming from Wente, whose regular stock in trade is a tedious contrarianism.

Her belated realization that women can be preferentially targeted online rings hollow when one considers how many of her past columns have been dismissive of that idea, or feminism in general. And then there were Wente's disgraceful personal attacks on Amanda Lindhout, the young freelance journalist kidnapped in Somalia. Those are hard to forget, or forgive.