So apparently we don’t need more women writing for the op-ed pages, according to Michael Kinsley. After all, we have columnists like Kinsley who have reams of insights to share with us. In his latest op-ed for Slate and the Washington Post, Kinsley discovers that:

• many people use their real names on the Internet
• there are a lot of morons on Myspace
• bloggers sometimes share a lot of info about their personal lives
• many successful web sites allow people to disclose tons of trivial details, as well as intimate ones, about their lives
• some people are even a tad obsessive about updating their sites!
• when you write stuff on the Web, sometimes people are mean to you.

Wow. No woman could have come up with such thrilling insights. Here’s Michael, on the horribleness of the Web: “Even in their quieter modes, denizens of the Web seem to lug around huge egos and deeply questionable assumptions about how interesting they and their lives might be to others.

Stop the presses!

To be fair, I sometimes get a lot out of Kinsley’s op-ed writing. I’d say he has a 50 percent hit-miss ratio as an opinion writer. I suspect that the challenge of pounding out one or two opinion pieces a week would leave anyone putting out the occasional dud. Which brings me to the point of this post: maybe people like Kinsley should have half as many deadlines? Just cut their slots in half. That would leave some space for a Susan Estrich, or a Katha Pollitt, or a Jane Mansbridge, or a Shukria Barakzai, or an Amy Sullivan…