tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post9066469672965965889..comments2024-03-29T04:06:37.402-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: The Stone Age of AquariusStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-39552529091745068362015-03-09T11:11:05.659-07:002015-03-09T11:11:05.659-07:00http://www.the-american-interest.com/2015/03/08/th...http://www.the-american-interest.com/2015/03/08/the-modern-education-system-is-anti-boy/Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-69473890756324471302015-03-08T19:08:59.139-07:002015-03-08T19:08:59.139-07:00I remember Camile Paglia saying something llike, &...I remember Camile Paglia saying something llike, "if women ran the world there would be no wars, but we would still be living in grass huts."drtceline@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05068560803010332344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-70679006715184696202015-03-08T17:58:37.002-07:002015-03-08T17:58:37.002-07:00"Why are girls performing better at school th..."Why are girls performing better at school than their male classmates?<br /><br />First, girls read more than boys. Reading proficiency is the basis upon which all other learning is built. When boys don’t do well at reading, their performance in other school subjects suffers too.<br /><br />Second, girls spend more time on homework.<br /><br />Third, peer pressure plays a role. A lot of boys decide early on that they are just too cool for school which means they’re more likely to be rowdy in class."<br /><br />Boys and girls learn differently, have different interests. Boys need to be active, and are prevented. Boys don't like the same kinds of books as girls, but have to read those books. I doubt boys decide they're too cool for school, but that school is antithetical to them.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-47709648915374485402015-03-08T06:16:00.950-07:002015-03-08T06:16:00.950-07:00Just to prove a point that Konner in his wildest i...Just to prove a point that Konner in his wildest imagination would never fathom. http://www.thefrisky.com/2013-11-05/study-guys-who-help-out-around-the-house-get-more-action-well-sort-of/<br />If one does what are considered "manly" chores one gets far more sex. If one does "womanly" chores then one gets less sex.<br />I suspect IAC is correct in that Konner has fallen for the line that males doing female tasks get laid, but alas it is not true.Dennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14962996070458991675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-25889865418299077842015-03-07T21:10:28.599-08:002015-03-07T21:10:28.599-08:00we have a medical services department which had 5 ...we have a medical services department which had 5 women who were at each others throats so much that the patients complained. Finally had to hire a guy to just sit in the common area to quell and the backbiting.<br />In my time in medicine, 35 years, I may have seen 1 female MD work as hard as a man. <br />This guy has obviously never been married and divorced if he things women can run things better.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-25078092120051267942015-03-07T12:38:57.325-08:002015-03-07T12:38:57.325-08:00The author doesn't understand the past or the ...The author doesn't understand the past or the present so he can't have even a clue about the future.<br /><br />Academics who believe and teach fantasy beget more fairytale believers and teachers. The world was screwed up enough before the Left was allowed possession of our children's minds. tljhoundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06331336663431449085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-18078605544869496732015-03-07T10:53:17.599-08:002015-03-07T10:53:17.599-08:00Wink
http://www.theonion.com/articles/man-finally...Wink<br /><br />http://www.theonion.com/articles/man-finally-put-in-charge-of-struggling-feminist-m,2338/<br /><br />Now who is it who enforces female genital mutilation as a rite of passage into adulthood? Now who is it we see not taking responsibility for their bodies vice requiring men to know exactly what is in their minds when intoxicated? Now who bullies young girls in K-12 and beyond? Now who kills literally millions of unwanted babies? Now who suffers most of the migraines?<br />Here is a thought we could stop using everything men have created, innovated and developed. <br />Men create rules and hierarchies even when fighting among themselves and at war. Women do not. I remember a show during the 60's called "The Battle of the Sexes" in which women constantly beat men at physical endeavors. In a race a man had to start a half mile back from where the woman started and still almost won. It was much like the world of "Harrison Bergeron" where no one was allowed to be better than anyone else. Those with skills and abilities were handicapped by some means or another.<br />Konner's is the drivel of a pseudo intellectual pajama boy.Dennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14962996070458991675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-68579646408599316342015-03-07T09:46:43.901-08:002015-03-07T09:46:43.901-08:00I'm reminded that an unprecedented violation o...I'm reminded that an unprecedented violation of human rights is ostensibly committed for the cause of female equality. Clearly, women are equally capable of violence, and may be more susceptible to narcissistic indulgence. It may also be an ingenious conspiracy by a minority of men and women to abort their competing interests through a pacifist, voluntary reduction.<br /><br />Perhaps we should wait for women and men to pass their reproductive/formative years before judging them by their ability to realize internal, external, and mutual consistency in their orientations and expressions.<br /><br />Generational liberalism is degenerative. Classical liberalism without moral temperance is crude. Unstructured liberalism engenders chaos and violence.n.nhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04252447117532342957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-32567417960892028962015-03-07T09:30:41.267-08:002015-03-07T09:30:41.267-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.n.nhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04252447117532342957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-57862878840981849042015-03-07T08:51:30.799-08:002015-03-07T08:51:30.799-08:00Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCD, while we're mak...Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCD, while we're making fun of male feminists, we should look at some data that looks bad for men.<br /><br />Specifically the economists recent asked "Why girls do better at school than boys?"<br />http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/03/economist-explains-3<br />-----------------<br />Why are girls performing better at school than their male classmates?<br /><br />First, girls read more than boys. Reading proficiency is the basis upon which all other learning is built. When boys don’t do well at reading, their performance in other school subjects suffers too. <br /><br />Second, girls spend more time on homework. <br /><br />Third, peer pressure plays a role. A lot of boys decide early on that they are just too cool for school which means they’re more likely to be rowdy in class.<br />-----------------<br /><br />And we're also looking at a 60 year decline in male labor force participation.<br />http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/CIVPART/ All<br />http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/LNU01300001 Men<br />http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/LNU01300002 Women<br /><br />So if we need to do some "social engineering", we're going to need some sympathy from the feminists.<br /><br />The key fact I remember is there are more male geniuses and more male idiots, something about the cost of "male development" being focused on risks, so God or Nature is apparently willing to throw away more men, and society follows by locking them up.<br /><br />I don't remember what the feminist solution is to the U.S. incarcination rate. What will the women do when half of the men are locked up? Are they going to want to put their hard earned tax dollars to pay for men to lift weights and have gay sex all day?<br /><br />Something has got to give.<br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-13813300222776934792015-03-07T08:28:56.957-08:002015-03-07T08:28:56.957-08:00Does he have any idea just how incredibly violent ...Does he have any idea just how incredibly violent hunter-gatherer societies are? dfordoomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02306293859869179118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-17880838453065796262015-03-07T08:05:25.470-08:002015-03-07T08:05:25.470-08:00Finally, stories like that of Konner's seem to...Finally, stories like that of Konner's seem to forget that we're the same as Roman farmers, we just have an electrical grid. We do not appreciate what we have, how it came to be, or why it is important. It's an inheritance we take for granted, as we ridicule our ancestors for their barbarity. I think women are lovely and amazing as they are. But this fantastic notion that women en masse are equally capable of all things and do not have parts of their inner spirit that are any less barbarous, low, and destructive is poppycock, wishful thinking and... willfully delusionalIgnatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-57728953549879340372015-03-07T08:04:38.677-08:002015-03-07T08:04:38.677-08:00Academics and "neuroscientists" wonder w...Academics and "neuroscientists" wonder why we cannot take them seriously? It all makes for interesting reading (in the fantasy genre), but people like Konner are blatantly ideological, living in this detached intellectosphere. He seems like a frontman for some sentimental boy band -- a crooner who soothes the ladies with phony stories of exotic travels and love of the sacred feminine... so he can get laid, all the while whispering sweet nothings.<br /><br />Knonner is whispering sweet nothings here. Whether he's getting laid because if this self-evident nonsense is another matter, unless he's trawling at Emory bars at 2:00 AM, where the remaining intoxicated women will believe anything.<br /><br />Since Konner likes to peddle in stereotypes and what're "majority of men" do, let's have at it, and discuss the other dimensions of the feminine personae he chooses to leave out...<br /><br />"Research has found that women are superior to men in most ways that will count in the future..."<br /><br />Sure, especially since the majority if women are logical and like to build things. I'm sure all the female plumbers, electricians, carpenters, engineers, chemists, etc, will be lining up to fill those jobs. They're justs drawn to them, like mosquitoes to a lightbulb. Yeesh, who's going to build the infrastructure? Who invented the machines that liberated women from the home? Which women can afford to have nannies?<br /><br />Creativity is what will matter in the America of the future... if we can maintain our very economic strength, and the only (until now) benefit of our educational system and our economic culture. Enterprise, creativity and invention require taking risks. Women are risk-averse. True creativity comes from breaking things apart and spurning conformity. Women are normative. Invention requires mechanical manipulation and/or symbol reconfiguration. Women are good at manipulating objects and utilizing symbols, to be sure, but they are far less creative in the endeavors which generate something new entirely. And please don't counter with the idea of "fast followers." <br /><br />"By contrast, almost all women, protected from that hormonal assault, have brains that take care of business without this kind of distracting and destructive delirium."<br /><br />Ummmm,.. ever heard about the effects of estrogen? Women are averse to violence? Depends on what kind. Ever seen what happens to a woman who gets ahead or falls behind? Just because there are no visible bumps and bruises doesn't mean social violence is not in play. Women are mean and manipulative... sometimes to the point of brutality, and with a startling ruthlessness. As my wife likes to say, "Be wary of women with agendas." Men perform well I'm subordinating themselves to teams, while women want to be the center of attention.<br /><br />There are so many silly fallacies cited here. If you want to find the negative in something or someone (like men or a man), no doubt you'll find it. But Konner is looking at all the stereotypical downside of the male persona and seeing what he wants to see. Sure, Angela Merkel was a chemist, Sheryl Sandberg is COO of a huge company, etc. And yes, women can and do fly attack helicopters, which are high-tech machines. But what happens when a woman gets captured by the enemy? Will she be treated as a normal POW? If yes, why? If no, why not? What do you think ISIS would do with a captured female pilot? I doubt she'd be burned alive, she'd be "married" to some ISIS warrior and used for conjugal purposes..Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-44075921245433463382015-03-07T07:44:05.035-08:002015-03-07T07:44:05.035-08:00Yes, Konner's case would have been stronger ha...Yes, Konner's case would have been stronger had he picked Sarah Palin as proof of the ascendancy of women.<br /><br />Can you believe 41 year old Sarah Palin ran a marathon faster than 20 year old Paul Ryan?!<br />http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/09/sarah-palin-ran-a-faster-marathon-than-paul-ryan/261895/<br /><br />You can't go wrong with the Momma Grizzly!<br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mama_grizzly<br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.com