Posted on 02/22/2005 8:06:43 AM PST by rwa265
There have been a lot of gaffes about women lately.
And as Michael Kinsley trenchantly observed, a gaffe occurs not when somebody lies, but when he says what he really thinks.
We got a brutal glimpse into the thinking of a certain segment of the male species reading the transcript of the condescending musings of Harvard's president, Lawrence Summers, on the "intrinsic aptitude" and "variability of aptitude" of women.
Whatever point he was trying to make, he ended up making this one: The problem isn't female aptitude; it's male attitude. He confuses the roles society assigns to women with what women might really want.
The "different socialization" Summers talks about may be getting worse, thanks to goofballs like him. How did he get to be head of Harvard anyway?
(Excerpt) Read more at stltoday.com ...
Mureeen Dowd IS a gaffe.
Yes, but at least she has Michael Douglas.
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CROM'S BLOOD!
BOINNNNNNNNNNNG!
Thank you. I was looking for a picture . . .
Once you understand that Feminist have penis envy, everything else falls into place. They hate being a woman. It is best explained in their absolute support of the murder of the unborn. What is inargueably the most important socially and personally, act a woman can solely perform....giving birth... is the most despised and attacked by the likes of Dowdy.
She is putting a Hunter Thompson in her columns, without the integrity of actual suicide. If Bill Keller, the Editor of the NY Times cannot see that, doesn't he have any friends who are psychiatrists give him a clue?
Stop this woman before she writes again.
Congressman Billybob
Maureen, methinks perhaps Prof. Summers hit a bit too close to the mark? We don't all have the same capabilities. Just accept that fact. Variety is the spice of life, you know!
Viva la difference! (sorry about the french folks!)
They are so perverse.
"People are such amazing creatures, and to be able to make one — I mean, I can't make anything. I can't make a paper airplane, but I can make a person. That's an amazing gift. If I'm able to, I would love to. ... Whenever a guy says, 'Thank God I don't have to give birth,' I'm like, 'Are you crazy? That's the luckiest thing about being a girl.' "
Natalie Portman as quoted in the Washington Times:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/culture/20050220-100703-7445r.htm
At least Natalie gets it!
What does Maureen Dowd look like anyway? Picture? Would like to see just how far up Michael Douglas traded (I'm not even a fan of his).
>>>The problem isn't female aptitude; it's male attitude.<<<
Fact the truth Maureen, it's FEMALE INAPTITUDE, plain and simple. Truth hurts eh moe?
"We got a brutal glimpse into the thinking of a certain segment of the male species reading the transcript of the condescending musings of Harvard's president, Lawrence Summers, on the "intrinsic aptitude" and "variability of aptitude" of women."
Oh please. I'm sure Mr. Summers had no such intention as being "condescending". Nor I'm sure did he have an "attitude".
Sometimes the truth hurts. Telling the truth isn't the problem, it's what you do with it. Or, how the "victim" responds to it.
So women on the whole may not be as good at math, or as quick-thinking. That doesn't mean there are not brilliant women, OR, most importantly, that all women will be shut out of jobs just because most women aren't as good as men.
I was hoping this article (w/o noticing this was by Dowd) was about how indeed women haven't gotten very far. In terms of being treated as sex objects, I think it's gotten worse. Assuming men were horrid sex-crazed woman-exploiters in the old days, the '60s "sex revolution" did NOT bring men UP to the level of "morally pure" women, but rather took women DOWN to the level of sex-crazed hedonist decadents - who get used much more than 100 years ago. But no talk here about that here. I'm sure liberal Dowd is fine w/free sex. She just doesn't want to hear some1 speak the simple truth (truths which include women are better at other things). And she tags that truth-telling as "arrogance" of some kind.
This article displays what she thinks of women, even more than what she thinks of men. She thinks women, particularly homely or overweight women, are so despicable that "the best night of their lives" was when they had sex with a stranger who happened to be a baseball player.
Both Ms. Dowd and the people she's describing are sad and pitiful beyond words.
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