Posted on 06/02/2011 8:13:29 PM PDT by RatherBiased.com
If you're like me, you've been waiting for feminist claims that global warming is harder on women and therefore should be a greater concern to the public.
Actress Sigourney Weaver of "Alien" fame did just that Thursday with an astonishingly ludicrous article published at the Huffington Post - a website rife with astonishingly ludicrous articles:
"You might think that a force as sweeping as global warming would be an equal opportunity threat: that it would endanger men and women alike. But the fact is climate change exacts a heavier toll on women."
Yep. She wrote that. It's so absurd it's worth repeating: "climate change exacts a heavier toll on women."
How you might ask?
Women produce up to 80 percent of the food in the developing world. Drought and unpredictable rains brought on by climate change will make this work far more precarious. Women will have to labor harder and longer to ensure their families have food, fuel, and water.Shh. Wait. It gets better:Our role as caretakers puts us at even greater risk in times of extreme weather. Studies have found that women are 14 times more likely to die as a result of storms and other extreme weather than men.
Fourteen times! Why? Because women often look after the children, the elderly, and the sick, and that means we have less mobility in a flood or wildfire.
If you ask people the tools we need to stop climate change, most talk about wind and solar energy, fuel efficient cars, and biofuels. But there is another solution that is not so widely known: empowering women.Yep. We can solve rising temperatures by - wait for it! - empowering women:
Two groundbreaking studies, one from the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research and one from the Futures Group, found that simply by meeting women's existing needs for voluntary family planning, we could reduce carbon emissions by between 8 and 15 percent.Yep. Improving women's lives will lower temperatures on the planet.That is the equivalent of stopping all deforestation today...Improving women's lives while curbing emissions offers another arrow in our quiver.
I wonder if Tipper Gore agrees with this premise?
Ya, that was the first thing that came to my mind as well.
Needed: Butt enhancement surgeon.
Ask your friend if he knew about her tree house at Yale.
She’s not dumb, she’s just very eccentric to the extent that it makes her brain function in very odd ways. I blame the various “studies” she quotes and whoever encouraged her to run with that hypothesis of crazy.
That said, wonder if she gets that the largest threat to “women empowerment” is plain old slavery and servitude under sharia law?
Of course not. She's left first, pro-women (and even herself) second...
And a short video from "The Year of Living Dangerously" couldn't hurt.
Hey Sigourney: In space no one can hear you babble.
A great Mort Sahl joke that went viral!
Wear a condom in a time machine, prevent Sigourney Weaver.
Thanks RatherBiased.com.
Don’t be so hard on her. It’s in all their contracts that they have to babble some leftist blather every once in a while in order to keep working in hollyweird.
We just don’t know which of them means it, but actions speak louder than words.
Agreed, partially.
I don't think she's a ditz. I could be wrong but my take is that she is a woman of above average intelligence who has spent FAR too long among the sewer 'Rats in Hollyweird and has become victim to the inevitable effects of that lifestyle.
However, there is also the possibility that she's 'having us on' and says these things in order to further entrench her persona into that culture.
It's not always wise to take things at face value.
As for her looks....I don't care if she looks overweight or like as thin as refugee from Biafra. She never was my type and doesn't do a thing for me.
"This chick is toast!"
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