At an “Hour of Code” event in the White House on Monday, Vice President Joe Biden made a comment that the feminist community and the leftist media would decry as a sexist reinforcement of patriarchal oppression if it had come from the lips of any conservative politician. So far ... crickets. 

CBS News' Mark Knoller noted the comment Monday:

As Noah Rothman points out, telling little girls that their standard for intellectual capacity should be measured by males would be torched by the feminist left, but so far the patriarchy watchdogs have remained strangely quiet:

It’s odd that the feminist community does not find it even slightly problematic that the Vice President of the United States essentially confirmed for a group of school-age girls that a baseline standard of intellectual prowess are set by men. Implicit in Biden’s comment is the notion that these young girls are in some way performing a remarkable feat by demonstrating a level of intelligence often reserved for males. No one has a problem with this?

It’s striking that the feminist community, which occupies itself being offended by the “tyranny” of home cooked meals, an artist’s depiction of Spider-Woman’s posterior, or the patriarchy associated with a scientist’s colorful shirt, has somehow overlooked these inartful comments from the person next in line to serve as leader of the free world.

H/T Weasel Zippers.