Summers of diversity

Jewish World Review ^ | 5/18/05 | Marianne M. Jennings

[Caleb1411]

There are moments when women reach peaceful coexistence with male colleagues; times that bring welcome sexual harassment sans federal involvement. Then feisty feminists stir the pot and set us back 20 years. They are once again flying twice backwards around their cages, squawking like wenches at drunken sailors.

Larry Summers, pirate of the Caribbean, offended the women at a Mary Kay engineering conference in Cambridge, MA several moons ago. The flummoxing theme of this female whine-fest was "Diversifying the Science & Engineering Workforce," i.e., why aren't more broads scientists?

Gathering in Cambridge, MA, was their first scientific mistake. The great blue state of Massachusetts ranks 41st in job creation. Leave it to women to choose a meeting place that hasn't had a new job since the Kennedy Senate throne to discuss the need to gin up female jobs. Swingin' Summers hurled a rambling discourse to this shrewd and shrewish group. He suggested that 80-hour work weeks in science deter women who want to raise families. He postulated that there may be genetic differences in women's tastes vis-à-vis careers. He spoke of socialization's role and wondered whether indeed discrimination against women in science exists. Finally, he suggested lower IQ as a driver of the feminine deficits.

Dr. Summers also wondered aloud why more Catholics aren't investment bankers and so few whites are in the NBA. Catholics were not offended because they've read investment bankers' e-mails and know they'd be at confession daily, so they sell real goods and services, not highfalutin smoke and mirror barges, SPEs, SWAPS, and SLOBs. White guys have seen the NBA arrest record and are content in their non-felonious, injury-free careers.

But women could not brush off Summers' suggestion of vive la difference. His salvo rattled the broomstick skirts and ruffled the significant leg hair of every

[LibFreeOrDie]

This related thread details some of where that $50 million is going:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1404282/posts

"The recommendations also call for a 'faculty development and diversity fund' to partially support appointees who 'contribute to diversity,' and for mandatory instruction of science graduate students on gender bias before they are allowed to teach."

And as I said on that thread:

Fahgeddabout supporting appointees who contribute to quality scholarship and teaching! Let the indoctrination camps begin! /s

Nancy Hopkins - The female Jesse Jackson of academe. She seems to be making more of a career instigating "task forces" at universities than doing science research. First MIT, now Harvard...

[Mr. Jeeves]

When a woman asks, "Do I look fat?" every non-metrosexual male knows the answer that preserves his life: "No." Women don't want the truth; they want reassurance.

No Watson and Crick potential rests in a mind in denial. Summers is punished because he had the nerve to say, "Yes, actually, you look like you may have put on a few pounds." Summers even offered that perhaps bringing out a scale could give us a definitive answer.

Ha ha! ;)