Why the Washington Post can't satisfy their women (or, Tweety eat yer heart out!)
By bluegal Sunday Mar 02, 2008 12:00pm
from a magnet by the marvelous Anne Taintor.
Just when I thought Chris Mathews had the corner on misogyny, The Washington Post (via Media Matters) just makes my whole day:
Though Washington Post ombudsman Deborah Howell has stated that "[c]oncern about keeping women as newspaper readers has been an issue for many years" at the newspaper, the Post published an essay by Charlotte Allen in which she called women "kind of dim," suggested that women were not only "the weaker sex" but "the stupid sex, our brains permanently occluded by random emotions, psychosomatic flailings and distraction by the superficial," and claimed that Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign has been "marred by every stereotypical flaw of the female sex."
Charlotte? Oh, can I call you Ms. Allen? About your "permanently occluded brain": April Fool's Day is NEXT month, my friend. Jessica Valenti at Feministing has a couple things to say to you, too.
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oh no! wouldn't wanna say anything to offend women (aka 51% of the population)....but feel free to discuss how patriarchal, over-bearing, bullying, and aggressive men are.
buried for being a distraction.
I guess Charlotte's insight is attributable to her large adam's apple.
Charlotte is that a 12 month Washington Post subscription in your drawers...or are you just glad to see us?
She looks like my kinda woman
Sort of Maureen O'Hara.
(Margaret Dumont will be so jealous.)
isn't there at least some anthropological evidence out there which supports the claim that at least some women (enough to make it an indicator of femininity) are distracted by "the superficial" (e.g. finery, make up, etc)? or are often swept up in their emotions (i.e. soap operas)?
after all, there is a term "feminine" (which has certain, identifiable characteristics). if women don't like the term, or the marker, of a biological identity.....then would they prefer to be more like men, and thus absorb all of the common attributes of "masculinity" (see hillary clinton)? or would these "feminists" rather be invisible, or have no biological identity whatsoever?
i think we should celebrate who we are, rather than feel guilty, or ashamed, about it.
if you're a woman, be a woman! and let other women be women, too.
bryancri @ 4:
Riiight...gender has a direct correlation with intellectual capacity...right? Just like race does. Right?
How do you people sleep at night?
bryancri @ 1:
Bryan, get a grip. This whole issue is about Allen and other professional female misogynists place rhetorical bombs in the sphere of public discourse. That's important. Don't draw false equivalencies.
Allen is a member of the IWF, which is Phyllis Schlaffy's group. Pomfret, wretched Post on-line editor who came after Dan Froomkin (and failed) knows full well what kind of columns the IWF is going to write.
This is about mainstreaming right-wing discourse and moving the Overton window.
Well that will build up subscriptions. Anyone who writes crap like this deserves to be treated as cerebrally occluded.
bryancri @ 5:
And let albatrosses be albatrosses...and ducks ducks...and sheep sheep and a parrrtridge in a pear treeeee.
Maybe it's just Charlotte Allen who is kind of dim and stupid.
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The Stepford talking point drones.
Loonie @ 10:
She should go back to bringing her husband his slippers and pipe.
At least then she can't hurt herself. All that thinkin' to put together that article, I'm sure has upset her delicate condition.
I read this yesterday and was just imagining the responses...
An old truism:
A man will pay twice what something's worth if he thinks he needs it.
A woman will buy two of something she doesn't need at all if they're on sale for half price.
Equal but different.
Riiight…gender has a direct correlation with intellectual capacity…right?
nobody is claiming that gender has a correlation to "intellectual capacity," (which is not an actual phenomenon) but sex certainly does affect how the brain functions. that is a FACT.
This whole issue is about Allen and other professional female misogynists place rhetorical bombs in the sphere of public discourse
so, there can be no "rhetorical bombs" in public discourse? does this constitute a "rhetorical bomb"? if so, who cares?
And let albatrosses be albatrosses…and ducks ducks…and sheep sheep and a parrrtridge in a pear treeeee.
like baudrillard said, just as space keeps everything from being in the same place, words keep everything from meaning the same thing.
bryancri @ 4:
Jesus,Mary and Joseph WTF?
Feminine characteristics include:
A wider pelvis for childbearing, slightly different muscle to fat ratios, breasts for feeding infants, and a vagina/uterus.
Feminine characteristics do NOT include:
Crying over soap operas, jewelry, and makeup.
Were you home schooled?
At least she's not wearing her heart on her sleeve! :-)
bryancri @ 15:
If you are telling me that female and male brains are wired differently...yes... I know. But NONE OF THAT has anything to do with women being less intelligent.
Show me THOSE facts that you speak of.
The glorious catch 22 of these folks like Anne "women sholdn't vote" Coulter, is that:
If this woman is right in her assessment, then she is also a fllaky, flighty, dunderhead, BUT if this woman is a flaky, flighty, dunderhead, then how can she be right in any analysis?
Why would we believe anyone who hates their own gender?
Quiet Burp @ 17:
She may prefer plaids.
We are wasting time even justifying this bullshit with an argument.
Whoops, I guess I'm too dim and feminine to renew my WaPo subscription.
Feminine characteristics do NOT include:
Crying over soap operas, jewelry, and makeup.
you wanna bet?
If you are telling me that female and male brains are wired differently…yes… I know. But NONE OF THAT has anything to do with women being less intelligent.
nobody said women are less intelligent.
or at least i never said that.
I'm sure that Charlotte bases these observations on life experience - she's describing her female friends. Her mistake is extending these traits to the female population at large.
Leslie @ 22:
LOL! Good one.
That doesn't correlate with women having larger brains than men.
So your saying women aren't emotional??
The very first comment here shows the mentality of viagra popping men who buy outsized cod pieces to prove they really are men....PERIOD...DON'T HAVE TO POST ANOTHER THING.
Cat Fight!!
I’m sure that Charlotte bases these observations on life experience - she’s describing her female friend
precisely. and this is why i should be able to say, "all of my jewish friends are really good with their finances". which, for some stupid reason, i can't say in public, else i'm anti-semitic.
but, feel free to say, "all of my irish friends drink heavily". that's perfectly acceptable.
ALSO...This just in...
Look who's pushing this story...Report: Women Are World Class Fibbers
bryancri @ 23:
The very first comment here shows the mentality of viagra popping men who buy outsized cod pieces to prove they really are men….PERIOD…DON’T HAVE TO POST ANOTHER THING.
you're a sexist! you should assumed that i'm a man (how do you know i'm a man?), AND you assumed that, because i'm a man, i must take continually prove my manlihood by looking after my penis. you're a sexist!
You are confusing biological traits with socialized stereotypes (ie MADE UP). Your issue of WAPO is on it’s way. Enjoy.
That line was my intended comment. Sorry.
chris @ 28:
Ya know what's funny, if a woman doesn't act all weepy and dim, she's labeled cold, frosty, and a bitch. Make up your friggin' minds. Anyhoo, I hear McCain has a bad temper, so is he 'emotional'? Oh that's right, he's a straight talker and strong. Hillary on the other hand is shrill, cold and calculating...or is it triangulating?
But, wasn't Team Clinton caught a few months ago planting "Diamonds or pearls?" questions in audiences, even as they complained of perceived sexism?
Hasn't Hillary been changing her mood every day as of late? One day she's a sweet peacemaker, the next day she's a pissed off nun again...
And what kind of feminist puts up with all the crap Bill's put her through? Doesn't her tolerance of his behavior make her a "Stepford" enabler?
you mean viagra popping men don't have periods, period.???
If she really believes women are the 'stupid sex', why is she offering her opinion? Why does she expect to be paid for it? Shouldn't I have her job?
I assume she's exempted herself from her own female stereotypes.
bryancri @ 31:
Well done, you've got my point exactly wrong! Maybe the reason you can accurately state that "all of your Irish friends drink heavily" is because you hang out at bars, not because all Irish folks are alcoholics.
bryancri @ 23:
I'll take your bet, you pathetic ass. I don't do any of those things. I don't wear makeup or jewelry (except my wedding ring) and I especially don't cry over some ridiculous soap opera. Now if you and your small brain want to discuss quarks and anti-quarks, then I am game.
Please, Ohio. Please, Texas. Don't either one of you go and be the stupid state. Polls show Clinton only tying McCain, with no telling what impact Nader might have, whereas Obama beats McCain by 14 points.
Don't make us go through this whole "she was for the war before she was against it" routine all over again, like we did with Kerry.
As for her "red phone" commercial, yeah, let's ask ourselves, who do we want in charge? A candidate who doesn't read national intelligence estimates, a candidate who has already been easily misled into bombing the wrong country, and who supported Kyl-Lieberman, which could have kicked off WW3?
And how can anyone in Ohio seriously consider voting for the wife of the jerk who dumped NAFTA on America?
(Sorry, a little bit off-topic, but tomorrow's a big day...)
Can we at least agree that women have made Oprah and The View hits?
Strawberrybitch @ 36:
Sound like my last Fourth of July!! LOL!
bryancri @ 31:
No, you wouldn't be anti semitic. Some of the best jewish jokes have been told to me by jews. They can be hilariously self deprecating at times. You have the whole issue turned on it's head. Do you actually AGREE with the article?
to be fair this is how she closes the article, what Cnl does bring to the table is outing her as part of the phyliss schafly group..
"I am perfectly willing to admit that I myself am a classic case of female mental deficiencies. I can't add 2 and 2 (well, I can, but then what?). I don't even know how many pairs of shoes I own. I have coasted through life and academia on the basis of an excellent memory and superior verbal skills, two areas where, researchers agree, women consistently outpace men. (An evolutionary just-so story explains this facility of ours: Back in hunter-gatherer days, men were the hunters and needed to calculate spear trajectories, while women were the gatherers and needed to remember where the berries were.) I don't mind recognizing and accepting that the women in history I admire most -- Sappho, Hildegard of Bingen, Elizabeth I, George Eliot, Margaret Thatcher -- were brilliant outliers.
The same goes for female fighter pilots, architects, tax accountants, chemical engineers, Supreme Court justices and brain surgeons. Yes, they can do their jobs and do them well, and I don't think anyone should put obstacles in their paths. I predict that over the long run, however, even with all the special mentoring and role-modeling the 21st century can provide, the number of women in these fields will always lag behind the number of men, for good reason.
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."
While I don't agree that women are less intelligent than men, or on somehow a lower rung in the animal kingdom whatsover, it is scientifically proven that there are HUGE differences both chemically, and psychologically between men and women. They aren't the same, and never will be. Is one sex better than the other? No. Just different. Both brains are wired different for different responses. Hell name one animal anywhere on the globe where the male and female are the same.
They must be dim if they don't know their place YET!
Marge @ 29:
Bwhahahahahhaaaaaaaa! And don't forget the new sportscar when they turn 50 and needing to be praised for every little thing they do. Oh, but the woman's ego is the bigger.......Bwhahahahaaaaahahaaaaa.....good one :D
Saint Jack @ 37:
Oh good grief. Divorce seems to be MORE of a redstate problem. Liberals tend to try and work out problems, not just bail, like McCain, Guilliani, even Reagan.
There's just as many ignorant stupid women as their are ignorant stupid men.
Obviously
Just remember...there can NEVER really be a War between the Sexes.
There's too much fraternizing with the enemy!! LOL!
Navyswan #41,
Oooooo, I also love to talk quarks, anti-quarks, muons, neutrinos, multiple universes, string theory and quantum mechanics! Love that stuff!
Speaking of WaPo, however, I recall an Einstein quote as he was leaving Nazi Germany. An SS officer asked him to write that as a Jew he hadn't been mistreated. So Einstein wrote: "I recommend the Nazis to everyone." Change the word Nazis to misogynists: I recommend WaPo's misogyny to everyone! And I hope Charlotte gets a big fat misogynist paycheck from the big boys to boot. It really is a shame, however, that WaPo is seeing its female readership decline. :)
Liberal AND Proud @ 52:
If you got the money honey I got the time.
Marge @ 29:
Hey Marge, When attacking men who you think hate women, tone down the hate, your posts where you attack with such ferocity about the same things make you come across as someone with a serious case of penis envy.
ysbaddaden @ 43:
Those two shows actually do prove the differences on a regular basis. Hell, Oprah's money alone proves the difference. Did she work as hard as a man to earn it? Yes, but what has she peddled all these years?
ConcernedCanuck @ 47:
And I thank our maker every day for them thar differences ;)
Right before the biggest primaries in this election Clinton receives an unfair attack. She can once again play the victim, her favorite role in this campaign, and go for the pity vote that gave her the "win" in New Hampshire. She couldn't have written the script better herself. Hmmm...
Liberal AND Proud @ 9:
L.A. Confidential @ 54:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ9w8HIGsH8
L.A. Confidential @ 54:
I got the time and the money...just need the honey. ; )
centralilgirl @ 57:
Yes I guess so....but one thing both have the same......that itch that needs scratched.
Acting Patriotic @ 48:
How ya like that, it's Bob and Connie!
But where's his pipe?
Liberal AND Proud @ 61:
Dumb yourself down
Lets leave aside the fact that between racism and sexism, racism has been the far larger issue in the race between HRC and Obama.
Let me see if I can sum up: A woman is telling us that women are dumb because they won't vote for a woman (who according to the article is dumb, cause she is a woman).
I can't stand this kind of reasoning. The idea that women should vote for HRC just because she is a woman is offensive. The idea that women who don't vote for HRC aren't feminists is even more offensive AND ironically, anti-feminist. The idea that women who don't vote for HRC are dumb is the biggest insult to all women. So women are only smart IF they forgo the free use of their own judgment? GAH. I swear to god this lady is either a man or a republican.
Women want safety, security, and happiness.
Some men do to but most realize there is no such thing. At least in the mens realm.
My god, what a dunce. This is almost word for word what people thought of women in the 15th and 16th century, but yet England had its most successful monarch in Queen Elizabeth 1. So much for the bullshit that women can't govern.
Filthy Harry @ 65:
Or both.
I thought Hill did a good job on SNL. Good comedic timing. Didn't work to read the cards. Almost looked unrehearsed. I was surprised.
Filthy Harry @ 65:
LOL, both.
That silly git can speak for herself. She hates being a woman and needs to look into having a sex change operation, since she thinks women like herself are too silly to even count.
You mean the WaPo is still in business? There's still a large enough population of gullible morons out there to support that idiotic rag sheet? Wonders never cease.
There's ample anthropological evidence that women are, on average, shorter than men. Stuff them into a crowd in a poorly-ventilated arena, among guys who block off their air supply, then I think you can find some explanation for some fainting incidents that were the inspiration of this WAPO column.
I see that the Post - shocked and suprised by the negative feed back (and what did they expect 1,000's of female readers to write in "oh yes that's us to a T!" ?) has now hauled out the classic "it was a joke" fig leaf. It was not a joke. A joke is
"what do you do with an Elephant with three balls"
"what?"
"Walk him and pitch to the Rhino."
that's a joke. What she wrote was mean evil nonsene and its root's go back to the 19th century - See A Mismeasure of Man By Stephen Jay Gould for a depressing read on the number of scientific studies that were done that discovered oh my god white men are just the best ever - followed by everybody else. (sometimes women came out ahead of black men sometimes not - depended on the inherent bias of the investgator.)
And let's be honest here - we don't know anywhere nearly enough about human beings and human beheavior in a social system to say (without admitting the huge possiblity of being wrong) - that this beheavior is the result of the persons gender or that that behavior is a result of growing up in a society where there are speicfic gender roles and social penalties for ingoring them. "Big boys don't cry" for example. You get that message at 7 years old and on - and are exposed to ridicule for breaking that rule - you're going to find it tough to cry at soap operas yes?
No argument there! Sex can cause mine to stop functioning!
Che's Lounge @ 69:
10 years or so campaigning and she's just now getting "warmed up?" Wow. Good thing she found her voice, after she exposed media bias, and choked up about "only wanting to do what's right for the US"...................please make this campaign end tomorrow.
From your lips to doG's ears....
ConcernedCanuck @ 76:
And as if proving the WaPo column right, she also said momentum was on her side. (now that is dumb)
She also claimed that this was a 'war election'. Note to HRC: Try not to sound like Bush.
Filthy Harry @ 78:
You obviously must hate freedom. What's your middle name?
:)
ConcernedCanuck @ 76:
fiver @ 79:
My middle name is: Gitmo
And I love freedom so much, I could cozy right up next to it, electrocute its genitals then shoot it in the back of the head execution style!
ysbaddaden @ 80:
As the father of three girls I'd like to say
!#$^#$%^*(#%@#%^*($&()&@!!!!!
And far more interesting than this article was the other OpEd in the Post yesterday, entitled "Why Women Don't [heart] Hillary". One of an avalanche of articles over the past months claiming that if women don't vote for Hillary because she's a woman, they're traitors or fools. A piece in the NY Times a few days ago, purportedly a news piece, quoted a political scientist explaining that women are voting for Clinton because they're rational, others are voting against her because they hate women.
Maybe they're right, who knows? My point, I guess, is that joy has gone out of the warm feeling of indignation I get reading crazy things said by the right, this website's focus. We have a pretty serious intermural contest going on here which presents a lot of interesting questions; among them, are identity politics the most realistic way to sort out the world and our own self-interest, or is that a generational reflex from the 60s that's now too blunt of a weapon? How we should approach what makes a good liberal president is a discussion I have every day at work and in bars and I'm surprised to find that much of the liberal internet doesn't want any part of it. "Are Bars the New Internet?" I guess is the title of the article I should write for the online version of Tavern Monthly.
I just thought of something, this woman is basically saying in the contest between Obama and HRC, women are dumb because they don't support HRC. What about repub women? Are they all dumb by default, OR does this woman mean to say that only dem women are dumb, and repub women get a free pass because there are no repub women running?
Cupid Stunt @ 27:
That would be because on average, men have larger brains than women and statistically speaking higher IQs.
The double standards at work in these issues always make me laugh. The media is full of stories about how men are useless at everything but if anyone challenges women on anything, people just lost their minds.
I've got to agree with Bill Maher on this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z8j4QJ0oiY
charlotte allen has been drinking too much of her recycled douch water
seems to me that Charlotte Allen has just used herself to prove her own theory.
Jessica Valenti? Isn't she the one with the boobs?
Sorry, I had to throw that in. As usual, a great column. I especially liked the eviscerating recap of Ms. Allen's greatest hits in the first paragraph.
I've got no use for Ms. Allen and her pathetic anti-feminism drivel. I like how Allen occasionally shifts over to anti-poor or anti-black ranting like in her New Orleans post, just to confirm where she's coming from.
I'm sure that WaPo is just publishing her to balance all the MacKinnon and Dworkin articles they routinely publish.
bryancri @ 15:
Nice dodge on the whole issue, Bryan. Rhetorical bombs lobbed by right-wing propaganda outlets like IWF should be noted and villified for the nonsense they are.
Care to cite studies showing correlation btwn. gender and brain function.
It's you that's the distraction. Charlotte Allen has a nasty agenda. See her last paragraph for her whole point. And try not to selectively ignore important points.
This should settle matters aright:
http://www.comics.com/comics/luann/archive/luann-20080302.html
Quiet Burp @ 17:
She has a
hardonhearton?bill w @ 92:
Her left boobie.
They should make a remake of Daniel Day Lewis's My Left Foot, starring Pamela Lee, called My Left Boobie.
" If non-violence is the law of our being, the future is with women"
Gandhi
Allen is also an editor at beliefnet. Call me when WaPO has an article not written by a clueless and crazy rapture bunny.
"That would be because on average, men have larger brains than women and statistically speaking higher IQs.
The double standards at work in these issues always make me laugh. The media is full of stories about how men are useless at everything but if anyone challenges women on anything, people just lost their minds.
I've got to agree with Bill Maher on this one"
Maher is a sexist ass in case you haven't noticed.
And where do you see the "media is full of stories about how men are useless at everything"? for example today's papers were full of breathless praise of John McCain's Grilling skills.
Where the Men are useless meme shows up is in advertising and tv shows which since The Honeymooners have used the useless male and the very competent female (who also happens to be very hot) as fodder for pretty simple minded comedy (look he can't do the laundry! Ha! Ha! Ha!) or to try to shame one into buying a diamond ring or make you insecure enough to eat very fatty foods to prove your man hood. These are not pieces by a male newspaper columnist on the dysfunctional nature of the Patriarchy. Nor are they in any way attempts to overthrow or change the status quo. Neither is this bit - this is just hackwork aid and encouragement to support the standing order.
There are problems with using IQ scores to measure anything other than how well one does on IQ tests - including is it really measuring a single thing? (and that you could debate until the cows come home - or Groucho Marx comes home - I could never rememer)
Loonie @ 10:
It always amazes me the hypocrisy and irony of women like Allen and Schafley make a living OUTSIDE the home telling other women that their place is INSIDE the home and how stupid women are. If women are so stupid, then we should automatically discount everything these women say, right?
In contrast to this idiotic take on the American female, I watched a wonderful HBO show yesterday detailing the progression of women's sports figures in the United States, that was amazingly insightful and refreshing. I was a Title IX baby in the 70's, and I am ever so thankful for it today.
97 Professor Fate
You see it in the commercials, where the guy's sick but wakes up his wife in the middle of the night to get his medicine.
Or he didn't buy it at Jared's!
Or a woman talking sharply to some off camera character to stop playing with his Christmas gift, and join the family photo, and it turns out not to be a five year old, but her husband.
Well, Charlotte, you are right, there are a lot of stupid American women out there, and admittedly you are one of them. There's also a helluva lot of stupid American men out there too. A woman like you, who trumpets the belittling of her fellow females is a pretty shallow mind. And one that surely seeks to keep her sex in its "place".
The people who are paying attention to what is going on and intelligent enough to understand that people can't be pigeonholed into these simple stereotypes aren't going to take your 1950's bullshit lightly, women most of all, but there are plenty of men out there who aren't going to let you get away with this shit either .
so the washingtonpost is trying to get more intellectual and monied non male genders by emulating the literature found at the cashiers check out in grocery stores across the world???
You know , the ones with articles on the next best recipe to lose weight so non-males will be envious, all men you ill find you attractive for your looks and your sensual skills
Some how when Shakespeare (?) wrote "Vanity thy Name is Women" I don't think thats what he meant.
Perhaps that lit is intended to allow those trapped in to early single motherhood with WIC stamps to be distracted enough while waiting in line to settle for their current existence as suzie homemaker until Oprah and the View can show the way to Gender Emancipation..
The washpost, Like NYT, the WSJ, National Geographic, Cnl, The White house Press corp, or Babes with Books gets The audience it initially writes for,( those willing to accept at first glance whatever is printed as the provacative truth, and spend the money to take it home )
The audience worth having is the one that actually analyzes and questions, which requires a more cogent writing style..and the ability to follow thru.
Just lookin' at that picture makes me want to sit down more gingerly
And I ain't talking Tina Louise gingerly.
Could this story be a distraction? Could it be because a woman is a candidate for the presidency of the USA? Could it draw people's attention from the real issues? Is it divisive? Is it working?
PS The GOP shill that wrote this is winning folks.
I think the Clinton campaign has been marred by a deliberate and cynical appeal to the self-pity that Mark Penn clearly believes characterizes the female sex.
I know I'm going to vote for Hillary to lead my country because I feel so sorry for her because everyone picks on her, and so sorry for myself because I'm a woman. That's me, when I go into a voting booth I always vote for the person I feel sorriest for. Yup.
The Clinton campaign has been offensively, patronizingly, and overwhelmingly insulting to women. Can you imagine Mother Jones, or Jane Addams, or Eleanor Roosevelt, going around boohooing about how mean everyone is to her? I can't understand how there is a woman or girl left in America that isn't embarrassed and pissed off.
rbrooks @ 105:
You know the lie isn't that women are stupid. They are. The lie is the implication that men aren't.
I'm pissed off at Charlotte Allen and WaPo, not at Hillary Clinton for running for president.
Oh, and my comment is in response to rbrooks, #105.
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Frankenpenis @ 110:
there is nothing worse than the whole giggly "I can say this because I'm part of this group!" crap. Someone at the Post must be drooling all over themselves with delight for finding a WOMAN who'll say this stuff. Gah.
Professor Fate @ 97:
Your right I hadnt noticed, because he makes that very point early in the video, watch the Bill Maher bit, he puts it way better than I can. For the last 20 years I've been seeing stories about how boys are stupid and inferior (can you imagine a tshirt for boys that said "girls are dumb, throw rocks at them"? No I bet you cant, but you can imagine the outrage I'm sure), fathers are useless (thats been hammered home since the 70's, and now people wonder why so many fathers are ok with not being in their childrens lives), men are all rapists (all penetrative sex is rape... you must have heard that one), men are responsible for all the evil in the world etc. etc. In short if you tell someone something all their lives dont be surprised to find they believe it and act accordingly. That goes for all stereotyping. But back to my point, if she wrote that about men, it wouldnt even have noticed by anyone.
If Clinton ran a poor campaign, as Allen asserts, what does her sex have to do with it? Kerry and Gore both ran poor campaigns as well. Allen says that Clinton cried.... I saw that videotape and she wasn't crying. But, even if she were, which she wasn't, hasn't Bush cried plenty of times himself? Has anyone accused him of being dim and emotional because of his gender? And doesn't he have a larger brain [than apparently Allen has]?
I get so sick of hearing this sexist bullshit. And, gee, I wonder why WaPo is worried about losing its female readership?
Oh, and just for the brain measurers out there...it's been disproven again and again that brain size is not a measure of intelligence. It's how you use it.
I mean it's been proven that brain size... well, you know what I mean.
Liberal AND Proud @ 6:
Barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen...
So how come most of the Rethug Clinton haters who act like that are men?
Charlotte ... step away from the mirror ...
BAC
She writes that crappy article after eight years of a guy, elected by guys, in the White House. The women fainting at the packed Obama rallies is nothing. This jornalist really is dumb.
duncanidho @ 46:
I think she might be on to something ladies! Maybe we are dimmer.
After all every time I strain my fragile little emotional mind to read all these complicated non-soap opera related words, I even feel myself getting stupider.
Sure wish I had a nice bodice ripper or the latest gossip mag to read instead.
The author, Charlotte Allen, wrote a hit piece for the Weekly Standard entitled Who Killed Antioch College? (I'm involved in the effort to save it.) Her thesis: the Board of Trustees just had to close one of America's landmark colleges not, as it appears, in order to steal the real estate, but because the "toxic" students ran off the White Man From The Ford Foundation. Pay no attention to this droid.
... What a poor pathetic purposeless soul, manifesting her dearth of self-esteem to the world over --- as less than a man of all things --- and there is nothing lower than that, leaving poor pathetic purposeless Charlotte with only one choice; commit suicide ASAP!
“the stupid sex, our brains permanently occluded by random emotions"
Wow, a self hating woman. Women may say it was men who kept them down so long, but it would have been completely impossible if it weren't for women like this. Women who don't want to be seen as bright, independent, valuable citizens in a respectful society. This may be some form of Stockholm syndrome, but my guess is that Deborah Howell needs some serious mental reconditioning from her fucked up childhood. Growing up repug can do that to a person.
I have a vagina, and I also have an I.Q. that is in the top 2% of people on the planet. I have been tested numerous times, and that same damn score keeps coming up!!!! I also have large round blue eyes, a round face, and blond hair and I am a size 6, IMAGINE THAT! FUCK ANYONE WHO SAYS WOMEN ARE NOT AS INTELLIGENT AS MEN! FUCK THEM!
Cleo @ 125:
I apologze for not maintaining the same standard of civility as the post I responded to. After all, I was just taking her up on her offer. =)
ysbaddaden @ 43:
Three letters: WWF
One name: Rocky
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