DELIGHTFUL! – AT 10:10 A.M. ET:  With all the grimness in the world, we try to find some stories to cheer us up.  I find this one just delightful, and further testament to the quality of American womanhood.  From The Politico:

The Marines aren’t the only ones looking for a few good men. So is the Network of Enlightened Women. Specifically, it wants a few good gentlemen.

The conservative college women’s organization has tapped March, the month that celebrates women’s history, for its annual Gentlemen’s Showcase, an online popularity contest that culls the testosterone-infused, scraggly bearded herd roaming most college campuses looking for a few “keepers.”

The criteria for consideration are spelled out on the group’s website: A gentleman opens doors for women, shovels the neighbor’s sidewalk, helps elderly women carry their groceries, is confident but not cocky, and … well, you get the idea.

Slobs, in other words, need not apply. In fact, men can’t apply at all. Nominations must come from women.

“We’re trying to encourage gentlemanly behavior on campus,” NeW founder Karin Agness, a onetime Hill intern, told POLITICO.

And...

...with new emphasis being placed on traditional social values by, among others, tea party activists and a growing number of female candidates (2010 was dubbed the “Year of the Conservative Woman”), the time may be ripe for NeW to make its mark as part of the culturally conservative movement.

COMMENT:  Three cheers and more!  But I'd like to know what female readers of Urgent Agenda think about this.  Please e-mail us.

March 17, 2011