We Scream, We Swoon. How Dumb Can We Get?

Washington Post ^ | 03/02/2008 | Charlotte Allen

[Responsibility2nd]

Here's Agence France-Presse reporting on a rally for Sen. Barack Obama at the University of Maryland on Feb. 11: "He did not flinch when women screamed as he was in mid-sentence, and even broke off once to answer a female's cry of 'I love you, Obama!' with a reassuring 'I love you back.' " Women screamed? What was this, the Beatles tour of 1964? And when they weren't screaming, the fair-sex Obama fans who dominated the rally of 16,000 were saying things like: "Every time I hear him speak, I become more hopeful." Huh?

"Women 'Falling for Obama,' " the story's headline read. Elsewhere around the country, women were falling for the presidential candidate literally. Connecticut radio talk show host Jim Vicevich has counted five separate instances in which women fainted at Obama rallies since last September. And I thought such fainting was supposed to be a relic of the sexist past, when patriarchs forced their wives and daughters to lace themselves into corsets that cut off their oxygen.

I can't help it, but reading about such episodes of screaming, gushing and swooning makes me wonder whether women -- I should say, "we women," of course -- aren't the weaker sex after all. Or even the stupid sex, our brains permanently occluded by random emotions, psychosomatic flailings and distraction by the superficial. Women "are only children of a larger growth," wrote the 18th-century Earl of Chesterfield. Could he have been right?

I'm not the only woman who's dumbfounded (as it were) by our sex, or rather, as we prefer to put it, by other members of our sex besides us.

[Responsibility2nd]

The author? She gets it.

[Responsibility2nd]

Good reading. Worth clicking the link to read it all.

Very last sentence....

Then we could shriek and swoon and gossip and read chick lit to our hearts' content and not mind the fact that way down deep, we are . . . kind of dim.

[Eurale]

It’s the same kind of mindlessness that allowed the ascent of Adolf Hitler.

[BARLF]

Elvis returned finally in the form of an Oboma?

[Old Sarge]

Or even the stupid sex, our brains permanently occluded by random emotions, psychosomatic flailings and distraction by the superficial.

Keep going, you're getting closer...

[BARLF]

Bump

[Responsibility2nd]

The theory that women are the dumber sex -- or at least the sex that gets into more car accidents -- is amply supported by neurological and standardized-testing evidence. Men's and women's brains not only look different, but men's brains are bigger than women's (even adjusting for men's generally bigger body size). The important difference is in the parietal cortex, which is associated with space perception. Visuospatial skills, the capacity to rotate three-dimensional objects in the mind, at which men tend to excel over women, are in turn related to a capacity for abstract thinking and reasoning, the grounding for mathematics, science and philosophy. While the two sexes seem to have the same IQ on average (although even here, at least one recent study gives males a slight edge), there are proportionally more men than women at the extremes of very, very smart and very, very stupid.

Closer.... Closer....

[Sender]

[AngelesCrestHighway]

The chicks all faint for HOPE and CHANGE at Obamapalooza!....

[yldstrk]

Bunch of no brain dummies......

[Last Dakotan]

If and when this country moves to socialism, it will be because of the female vote.

I was listening to a program on NPR not so long ago on why women vote the way they do. It was was decided that women care for others and they wanted a government that did the same.

[TLI]

Actually, it is my understanding that women’s brain halves are connected in a location where men’s brains are not. According to my source this connection between the two halves is the source of failure to perform unrelated tasks at the same time and causes all thought process to be influenced by “emotion.”

[varyouga]

So I don't understand why more women don't relax, enjoy the innate abilities most of us possess (as well as the ones fewer of us possess) and revel in the things most important to life at which nearly all of us excel: tenderness toward children and men and the weak and the ability to make a house a home. (Even I, who inherited my interior-decorating skills from my Bronx Irish paternal grandmother, whose idea of upgrading the living-room sofa was to throw a blanket over it, can make a house a home.) Then we could shriek and swoon and gossip and read chick lit to our hearts' content and not mind the fact that way down deep, we are . . . kind of dim.

Wow, a return to traditional roles that we were designed to do? I can almost hear the femnazis' "rape" whistles howling in the background.

[vietvet67]

[Responsibility2nd]

I was listening to a program on NPR not so long ago on why women vote the way they do. It was was decided that women care for others and they wanted a government that did the same.

That's why I never listen to NPR.

[tcrlaf]

Welcome to the Mediacentric Society..

These prople aren’t selecting a President, they are selecting an IDOL WINNER...

[STONEWALLS]

“At the top of the paperback nonfiction chart and pitched to an exclusively female readership is Elizabeth Gilbert’s “Eat, Pray, Love.” “

....India is the latest wanna-go travel destination for a couple of my wife’s girlfriends who are “in recovery”....nobody actually goes there you understand....heat, poverty, bad sanitation, crappy food ect...but it’s important to mention that you’re “thinking” of going next year.

[Mad Dawgg]

"If and when this country moves to socialism, it will be because of the female vote."

Yeah and I predict our move towards such would be within a time frame of about 40 years.

Normally such a fact would not concern me overly much cause I would be safely dead or well on my way.

However that forty year time period is not in the future.

No my friend our move to Socialism already happened back When LBJ was in office. (And some say years before that when Roosevelt was in office)

[kb2614]

We Scream, We Swoon. How Dumb Can We Get?

Dumb is a bottomless pit.