Posted on 02/22/2005 8:06:43 AM PST by rwa265
Larry Summers: "How many bitter, elderly-schoolgirl columnists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?"
Maureen Dowd: "That's not funny!"
and this PC cr*pola isn't as innocent as most think.
It's underlying scheme is to undermine our Constitution and free speech - and I hope we wake up and turn the tide NOW, or it will forever be too late...as these Commissars dictate who can say what and who needs "retraining."
and don't forget raising that to which she has given birth
"Women round the bases to find they've gotten nowhere."
The only ones scoring a "home" run are those who've decided that our disintegrating society needs them to leave third base and go there.
Good summary. Maureen Dowd sounds so miserable; I really feel sorry for her.
Anyone who wants to understand PC MUST read the last pages of 1984 and the very short chapter on Newspeak.
PC seeks to win the debate by eliminating the words to engage the debate.
Thus the politically correct to say the preamble to the US constitution (We the people etc...) is to simply say "thought crime".
Has not everyone notice how the words mother and father are forbidden now? Its all "parent" or "two parents" or "good parent". Never good father or good mother.
PC is thought control that would make Goebles proud.
aside from MoDo being a wackjob, i was a real gearhead when i was young and so when i got to geometry, drafting, science, etc. in high school it was all an extension of my loving being a gearhead and i could apply it to real life where the girls in the classes only learned it because they needed it to graduate and not because they had ANY interest in it at all, they could care less!!! i guess that was partly because they couldn't relate it to anything in their normal life and that would carry into college and the rest of their lives. i really don't see it as any different now...
reigned in ONLY if you're a republican
Well I always loved mechanical things. I didn't like dolls, except 1 I loved (she talked and moved her eyes!) and I could have liked a Barbie (adult). My main thing was cars, matchbox cars w/a mobile city and making roads of my own in the yard. And I grew up w/Dad going to train shows and museums; I loved getting the sticker books and all, and playing w/Dad's trains at the time. Not sure if that was his influence deliberately, or genetic (his whole family - mostly males - is high IQ and very much scientifically inclined).
But that's me. I've always known myself as not liking that froo-froo girly stuff.
The thing is to have the opportunity. It's OK for our groups to be different on average. The important thing is we're looked at as individuals and allowed opportunities.
There is virtually no limit on any of us, regardless of our groups. I'm a mechanical engineer. I had that opportunity both for college education and work. That's all I really care about. I don't care that most women don't have the aptitude for engineering; I do, and no1 has stopped me. That's all that matters.
Maureen Dowd is right just this once.
i have NO problem with everybody having the opportunity to take classes... i'm just saying i see a difference in people who take a class because they love it and because they need it to graduate/get a job
i know it was like that for me with english... i coulda cared less about it but needed it to graduate
i DO believe though that males AND females a lot of times get led/pushed into degree fields more than their love of it leading them there to start with, and that is where the difference lies... between excelling and thriving in a class vs mearly learning the material
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