You’ve no doubt already read this impossibly horrible column penned by conservative freelance journalist Charlotte Allen that ran in the Washington Post on Sunday, but just in case you haven’t gotten the outrage out of your system, consider this comment thread the place to do just that.

We hardly know how to begin to wrap our brains around this series of events: Allen, the same woman who wrote the Weekly Standard story dismissing the Jena Six incidents as having been made up, apparently pitched a column to Outlook section editors at the Washington Post about how women are dumber than men. These same editors reviewed the idea, decided they liked it, asked to see a draft, read the actual column, still liked it, and then published it. All along the way, several editors and copy editors were no doubt involved in the editorial process that went into this piece of total garbage, and at no point did anyone stop to say, hey, maybe we shouldn’t publish this ignorant pack of lies. Consider our minds officially boggled.

The outraged and, really, dumbfounded response since the column ran couldn’t have been more predictable. Gee, you know, it’s almost like the Washington Post thought they’d run something this stupid on purpose just so everyone would link to it, comment on it and write in angry emails about it. Our own Jason Linkins has a nice response up at Huffington Post, in which he describes the column as “a nauseous bag, unflinching in it’s cliched ridiculousness, that reads like a bad prank.”

But the real winners are some of 800 plus comments already posted to the column itself. Here’s a few of our favorites:

Charlotte,
Men are dumber than woman. They paid you for this crap article…

I wish I subscribed to the Washington Post just so I could cancel my subscription.

You’re right, Charlotte: conservative women like you are too dumb to vote, so on election day, stay away from the polls. Instead, you and Anne Coulter can make sandwiches for the men in your life and send them out to waste their votes on John McCain while you stay home, light a candle for Bill Buckley and cuddle up with hot coco and your Ronald Reagan dolls.

As a thought experiment, imagine that this were written by a black author about black people. Would the Post ever have dared to run it?

Since all the commotion broke out, the Post has added a disclaimer of sorts to the top of the page that reads, “Agree? Disagree? Think this article should never have been published? Send a response to outlook@washpost.com and put “Smarter Than You Think” in the subject line. We’ll publish a selection online and in the newspaper on Sunday.”