Not bad, in a Euro sort of way...
Posted on 09/24/2002 12:55:07 AM PDT by RogerFGay
Rejecting "Male Science"
Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers’ Party had some amazing technological achievements. The V-2 rocket was the first man-made object sent into outer space. The autobahn was one of the finest roads ever constructed and the Volkswagen or “People’s Car” was one of the best mass produced automobiles ever made. Nazi science built jet airplanes, cruise missiles, and smart bombs.
Were these achievements the consequence of superior ideology? Hardly. Imperial Germany had also been very advanced in science and technology. Zeppelins glided over London, while British biplanes flew far below, unable to touch them. The Unterseeboot or U-Boat almost drove the British to the peace table in 1917. Germans also created such ghastly, but sophisticated, weapons as poison gases.
The ideology of Nazism may have insured German defeat in the Second World War. How? Because Hitler and his henchmen rejected “Jewish Science.” This did not just mean that many Jewish scientists or scientists with Jewish wives, like Enrico Fermi, left Europe for Britain or America. The Nazis also rejected “Jewish Science” itself.
So, when the Germans accidentally discovered Tabun nerve gas, later refined into Soman and then Sarin, one of the leading German scientists - a very patriotic German, who loathed Great Britain and longed for a Greater Germany - was rejected by Hitler because of his Jewishness, and Der Fuhrer would not even agree to meet him.
Womenists engage in the same sort of madness. Men have traditionally done very well in higher mathematics, physics, chemistry and a number of other physical sciences. Men, in fact, have produced many more of the greatest minds in these areas than women have.
There is nothing particularly sinister about this. The male and female mind are wired differently. The two sexes think differently and approach problems differently. This is just enough of a distinction so that the vast majority of men and women are not world class thinkers in abstract areas, but the very, very few who are tend to be male.
This has not kept women from also being great physicists, like Madame Curie, and it has not kept women from being great mathematicians (Albert Einstein’s first wife was a better mathematician than Albert himself). But overwhelmingly, in those disciplines that require high levels of analytical skill, men are the only people at the very top.
There simply has never been a woman whose accomplishments in those areas of analytic powers and great intuitive leaps equaled Newton, Napier, Galileo, Einstein, Maxwell, Heisenberg or Pythagoras. There have been large numbers of excellent female scientists, doctors, and mathematicians. There have also been large numbers of great female minds, like Beatrix Potter, who meticulously and accurately accumulated a large body of knowledge and accurately categorized the collected knowledge.
There have also been very, very few human beings in history who have made the sorts of vast strides that Pythagoras did when he first saw the projection of abstract principles into the material world, or that Newton did when he noted that a twenty-pound lead ball fell at the same rate as a ten-pound lead ball, or that Einstein did when he saw that space-time itself was a dimension. Nevertheless, men utterly dominate the pinnacles of analytical achievement.
The best chess players in the world have never been female, despite the fact that the best chess in the world has often been a member of some unpopular ethnic group - Jewish, Cuban, German (as a pawn of the Nazis) or Russian (during the Cold War) - and despite the great coup that such a victory would provide Womenists.
The increasingly obvious difference at the highest levels of intellectual achievement between men and women has led Womenists to produce the same sorts of absurd theories that Hitler produced when confronted with the obvious accomplishments of Jewish scientists. Womenists simply call exceptional analysis “male science” and so unworthy of serious attention.
The ultimate problem for Womenists is that, while those cultures which rejected “European education” can catch up over time, the difference in the very highest levels of analytical power seems inherent in our maleness of femaleness. Men, who have long understood that the differences between the sexes were a series of tradeoffs with no clear “winner” or “loser”, have no problem with this.
Womenists, however, are infected with the same fatal hubris toward women that the Nazis had toward Aryans: women must be superior to men in every way at every level and in every sense. Because reality is so different from this, Womenists have taken the same path as Nazis: descent into pagan worship of partisan deities, which insure the metaphysical victory of their super-race or super-sex. Evil, like history, repeats itself.
Bruce Walker
Bruce Walker writes regular, orginal, weekly columns for Enter Stage Right and Conservative Truth. His articles have also appeared in a variety of print and electronic periodicals, including Christian Science Monitor, Oklahoma Bar Journal, Law and Order, Legal Secretary Today, and The Docket. Bruce also wrote a regular column for several years entitled "Law and You" for The Single Parent, the national journal of Parents Without Partners. His professional career includes five years as Executive Director of the Oklahoma District Attorneys Association, three years as Administrator of the Oklahoma Child Support Enforcement Program, and six years as Managing Attorney of the Tulsa Child Support Office.
Contextually, he's talking about the (male-Nazi) design, not the production.
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The KKK does not speak for all white males, nor does Nation of Islam speak for all blacks.
Walker was specificly talking about "Womenists", who subscribe to a theory of woman-supremacy the way the Klan is into White-supremacy. Do Womenists exist? Yes, I've met a couple. Do they constitute a large percentage? No, but neither did radical Communists, which didn't stop them from messing up a few things
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Yes, probably a maid to whom he pays $4 an hour. I think that's his point.
In a way you prove his point. Many of these brilliant minds were and are inept at every day living. They couldn't shop for groceries and cook dinner if their lives depended on it. They can however reason out things that we mere mortals can barely understand. It's a trade-off.
Men and women are different (Thank God). Their brains are wired differently. I have abilities that my wife doesn't and she has abilities that I don't. We cannot survive without each other.
I think some women have problems accepting this because they don't want to admit that they need men. If men and women are different then men and women can never be truly equal and this offends the feminazi's views of how the world should be. They get blinded by their ideology and fail to see that they are trying to make an apples to oranges type of comparision in some areas.
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Nevertheless, men utterly dominate the pinnacles of analytical achievement.
Ironically, he implicitly falls into an inaccurate cliche, i.e., men dominate the highest levels of analytical fields only. There are no female Van Goghs, Picassos or Vermeers; no Beethovens or Bachs; no Tolstois or Balzacs; and, as a friend of mine would say monotonously but effectively in any argument of this sort, all the best chefs are men. In the realm of outstanding achievement, men are better than women at everything, with scant exceptions.
It's an interesting analytical(!) question whether one (or a few) women breaking the top echelon means they will have the ability to win the world championship.
Consider the Iron Man Triathlon, an extreme endurance event. A woman typically finishes in the top ten, but a woman never wins, or is close to winning. In a lesser endurance event, the Olympic marathon, a woman could never finish in the top ten. In the triathlon, I suspect the large "breakdown" rate is a factor. But there are other statistical arguments one could consider.
Not bad, in a Euro sort of way...
but can she cook ?
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Speaking of which, where is OPH? I have not seen him for a while. ANyone know if he is doing okay?
I don't believe this for one minute. In every sport known to man [chauvinist pig, screams Melitta my coffee maker], women's performance is 10% behind that of men. They simply don't have the muscles to compete with us! Remember those two loudmouth Williams sisters Venus and Serena? A few years ago they went on about how they could beat the pants off male top-ranked tennis players. One day at the Australian Open, a German player ranked around #100 who had just finished his match had nothing better to do and agreed to play one set against each sister. The result was something like 6-0, 6-1, and that one game was probably a gentlemanly concession. The Williams sisters never repeated their preposterous boast. The only exception in Olympic sports is equestrian events, where women have beaten men to take gold medals, but that proves my point and not yours.
It's an interesting analytical(!) question whether one (or a few) women breaking the top echelon means they will have the ability to win the world championship.
What's there to wonder about? Do you have any idea what it means to be #20 in a competitive sport played by millions all over the world? Okay, there will always be more male chess players than female chess players. But what JP has proven is that she has the ability to win tournaments against super-class grandmasters. She lacks that tiny extra bit to go all the way herself but I have no doubt that in the next generation a woman player can make it to the top four. What happens then is unpredictable but I repeat, chess is a mental sport, not an athletic sport where muscle mass is indispensable.
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