Posted on 01/05/2014 7:31:42 AM PST by stevie_d_64
There’s a reason the text version of Camille Paglia’s opening statement at the Munk Debate, “Resolved: Men Are Obsolete” garnered 10K likes on Facebook and received more than one thousand comments at Time.com: it hit a nerve.
It was a nerve that needed to be hit, and Paglia did it beautifully.
Not only was her choice of words fitting, she delivered them with the perfect amount of exasperation.
America must revisit its distorted view of gender equality, implored Paglia, and start being fair to the other half of the human race.
Men’s success in fields such as medicine, engineering and technology have done more to liberate women from the constraints of their former lives than a busload of feminists could ever hope to do.
It’s time to stop pretending men are oppressors and to start recognizing the extraordinary contributions men have made to society.
Paglia says, “History must be seen clearly and fairly: obstructive traditions arose not from men’s hatred or enslavement of women but from the natural division of labor that had developed over thousands of years during the agrarian period and that once immensely benefited and protected women, permitting them to remain at the hearth to care for helpless infants and children. Over the past century, it was laborsaving appliances, invented by men and spread by capitalism, that liberated women from daily drudgery.”
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Now, if someone could just convince my wife of this FACT!!!
No sarcasm necessary...Just accolades and other forms of appreciation will suffice...
I’m going to hell for this aren’t I...[snicker]
Men are obsolete until women need a flat tire fixed.
“Men’s success in fields such as medicine,”
Men’s??? It was Marie Curie who discovered the X ray. This woman is so completely stupid.
“It was Ford, not Marx, who liberated the Proletariat by saving it from the idiocy of agrarian toil.” - Lenin
I thought Marie Curie invented the basalmic vinagrete salad dressing???
Goes great on sandwiches too!!!
;-)
I cannot tell when you are kidding. Your post is in the vein of “George Washington Carver was the greatest scientist who ever lived. No other scientist came up with 200 uses for the peanut!”
In situations like this, I like to apply what I call the “Other Foot” test; to wit—Would the assertion as made, if applied to some other group, be tolerated.
Invariably the answer is a resounding “No.”
Not surprising, but it does provide perspective.
For a second I thought you meant Jerry Reed...
“She got da gold mine, I got the shaft!!!”
It hurts too much to laugh!!!
X-rays were discovered in 1895 by German Physicist Wilhelm Roentgen while he was experimenting with electricity. He named them X-rays because in math X is used to designate the unknown.
That is Marie Callender!
Is that almost like the old playground saying, “I’m rubber and yer glue!”
I better git to da store before I get too deep into this thing I started this morning...
Its going to git chilly tonight and I have not cleaned up the man-cave since football season ended for the Houston Texans back in late September...
| INVENTION | INVENTOR | YEAR |
|---|---|---|
| Alphabet blocks | Adeline D. T. Whitney | 1882 |
| Apgar tests, which evaluate a baby’s health upon birth | Virginia Apgar | 1952 |
| Chocolate-chip cookies | Ruth Wakefield | 1930 |
| Circular saw | Tabitha Babbitt | 1812 |
| Dishwasher | Josephine Cochran | 1872 |
| Disposable diaper | Marion Donovan | 1950 |
| Electric hot water heater | Ida Forbes | 1917 |
| Elevated railway | Mary Walton | 1881 |
| Engine muffler | El Dorado Jones | 1917 |
| Fire escape | Anna Connelly | 1887 |
| Globes | Ellen Fitz | 1875 |
| Ironing board | Sarah Boone | 1892 |
| Kevlar, a steel-like fiber used in radial tires, crash helmets, and bulletproof vests | Stephanie Kwolek | 1966 |
| Life raft | Maria Beaseley | 1882 |
| Liquid Paper®, a quick-drying liquid used to correct mistakes printed on paper | Bessie Nesmith | 1951 |
| Locomotive chimney | Mary Walton | 1879 |
| Medical syringe | Letitia Geer | 1899 |
| Paper-bag-making machine | Margaret Knight | 1871 |
| Rolling pin | Catherine Deiner | 1891 |
| Rotary engine | Margaret Knight | 1904 |
| Scotchgard™ fabric protector | Patsy O. Sherman | 1956 |
| Snugli® baby carrier | Ann Moore | 1965 |
| Street-cleaning machine | Florence Parpart | 1900 |
| Submarine lamp and telescope | Sarah Mather | 1845 |
| Windshield wiper | Mary Anderson | 1903 |
We'll probably never know how many women inventors there were. That's because in the early years of the United States, a woman could not get a patent in her own name. A patent is considered a kind of property, and until the late 1800s laws forbade women in most states from owning property or entering into legal agreements in their own names. Instead, a woman's property would be in the name of her father or husband.
For example, many people believe that Sybilla Masters was the first American woman inventor. In 1712 she developed a new corn mill, but was denied a patent because she was a woman. Three years later the patent was filed successfully in her husband's name.
Fact Monster/Information Please® Database, © 2007 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.
| Timeline of Everyday Inventions | Inventions | The National Inventors Hall of Fame |
Ohhhhh, yer right...That reminds me...
TV dinners...check...
Thanks...The grocery list did look a little lite this morning...
If men had been united in a determination to "keep women down," guess what?
Western women would be living in world similar to that of their modern sisters in most Muslim countries.
Temple Grandin, autistic lady, who became an Engineer who developed the cattle shutes..cattle flow mechanisms....at cattle facilities and they are used all over the world.
From water and sewer systems, insulated homes with heating, to refrigeration, mechanized agriculture, food distribution, hot water, and medical devices, engineers have done more to extend life and improve human health than doctors.
Marie Curie did something with isolating radioactive isotopes.
In fact she died due to aplastic anemia brought on by radiation poisioning. She had developed mobile x ray units for WWI and I guess not used lead vests.
She also discovered the two elements JOINTLY with her husband Pierre. Without him, it simply wouldn’t have happened.
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