Are Men Capable of Admiring Women?

The Grio ^ | Nov 30, 2022 | Touré

[GingisK]

And that naval lady who created COBOL

That would Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, Phd. She was very awesome. I had the honor to work for one of Grace's Girls for about 1.5 years. Charlene was tasked with validating the FORTAN compiler's machine code output. Oh yeah, Grace's team did FORTRAN in addition to COBOL.

[SkyDancer]

Have the SCOTCS define woman.

[BlackAdderess]

Women evidently beat men on iq, but men overestimate their abilities and women underestimate their abilities, and you have to think you can do a thing before you can actually do it.

What I said about Dad teaching us all useful skills out of his love for us turned out to be a lifeline away from the bad girly programming, and I think that was probably his intention.

[maddog55]

My answer would be, “Why would I as a man want to be more like a woman?”

[FLT-bird]

I can do that easily:

1)Margaret Thatcher

2) Marjorie Taylor Green

3) Lauren Boebert

What do I win?

[freeandfreezing]

Good point about Annie Oakley. Although most men may not immediately be able to name a woman they "want to be like" Ms. Oakley provides an excellent example of expertise and the results of dedicated practice.

Who wouldn't want to be able to shoot like her?

[webheart]

I don’t think so. Noah Zark was not married to Joanuv Arc.

[wally_bert]

How about his kid Joan Van Ark?

[wally_bert]

That’s Hedley!

[Responsibility2nd]

This seems like a fair question. But Immediately decided to think on three men who I admire and would like to be like.

Ronald Reagan comes to mind almost immediately. And that’s about it.

Moving on. Women? How about our recently departed Queen Elizabeth?

Let me be the first to say that I am no prize. But there are very few people who I admire and respect more than I do myself. I am happy in my own skin. I guess I’m a narcissist.

[50sDad]

Easiest way to not have to achieve is to make yourself a victim. I admire a lot of women, none of whom there idiots would consider “real women”.)

[Night Hides Not]

LOL, you’re a bad, bad person.

[Gaffer]

IIRC, Hedy Lamar was Austrian born. She was a true genius despite being stunningly beautiful, IMO.

She also was a codeveloper on a communications scheme that can be described today as a frequency hopping, spread spectrum technique. Also a very accomplished mathematician.

[Gaffer]

IMO, so is the author.

[Secret Agent Man]

Womem don’t exist for men to admire. Not how we’re built.

[50sDad]

Heddy Lamarr came up with a way of preventing radio eavesdropping in World War II (frequency hopping) but the Armed Forces rejected her idea.

IIRC, it was a method of preventing the Nazi jamming of remotely controlled Allied torpedoes. The problem was the receiver unit couldn't be made much smaller than a piano with purely mechanical tech available at the time.

[muir_redwoods]

Any Rand, Grace Hopper and Heddy Lamar came to mind immediately. If you don’t know, in addition to her Hollywood career, Lamar worked out the mathematics of signal switching that makes cell phone technology work. She was an actual genius.

[ConservativeMind]

Well said!

[algore]

Mary Magdalene
Cleopatra
Lilith

[DesertRhino]

I really enjoy putting women on a pedestal...

And in a birdcage, and an elevated runway.