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February 1, 2012
"Dudes can do things chicks can’t. "
We all know it’s true, and we try to bury the truth deep down in all sorts of logical fallacies.The most attractive and appealing among these is to compare the impressive feats of a selected female champion against the efforts toward the equivalent by an average male…think of Mia Hamm engaged in a one-on-one against an average middle-age guy, let’s say one who luxuriates on a couch watching mens’ soccer games and was caught saying something disparaging against womens’ soccer. She’d clean his clock, of course, and all the usual suspects would smirk until their smirkers got tired…but…how fast can the fastest guy run? How much can the strongest man lift? Can the gals compete? No, not only can’t they, but we know they can’t and we customize the athletic efforts and competitions accordingly. -- House of Eratosthenes
Posted by gerardvanderleun at February 1, 2012 8:25 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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The downside comes in where women are forced onto professions where they are sure to become the lowest common denominator. I was a young Marine Infantry Officer in a Marine Corps with few females, most of whom were dykes. My son's comment when I questioned him about going through The Basic School with a female platoon in his company... "They break", as indeed they do. So if your goal is to add a weakest link to every traditionally male profession, congratulations lefties.
Posted by: Casca at February 1, 2012 9:38 AM
Concerning natural selection, Darwin in "On the Origin of Species," Chapter IV said: "Man selects only for his own good, Nature only for that of the being which she tends."
Can we override natural selection? Can we override Mother Nature? Sometimes, we can. We can learn to control our temper, learn to move our fingers in somewhat unnatural ways to play the piano or the violin. But we have to understand which natural aspects of ourselves we can't override through cultural efforts. Instead of imitating men, maybe we women should try to find our natural strengths and build on them.
Posted by: Gloria at February 1, 2012 11:22 AM
When women have trouble or want to do something new we must change the world so they can do it. When men have trouble in the world, they must toughen up. Now we've gotten our feminized modern world and the Muslims will use it to their advantage.
This is what feminism looks like. The goal of commi-lib policies is societal decline, that's a feature of the operating system, not a bug.
Posted by: Scott M at February 1, 2012 12:51 PM
Go take a look at the faces of the 343 firefighters killed in the World Trade Centers on Sept 11. That's who you can count on when SHTF.
Posted by: Scott M at February 1, 2012 1:39 PM
Women whined their way through the 60s and 70s, demanding to be equal. I always thought that they were asking for a bad deal, since equality was surely a step down for them, but now that they have it, they whine about the men who, treating women as equals, get into the lifeboats first on the Costa Concordia. You want my job baby? Then you can take first come first serve for the boats. And women have a hard time coming first, being slow and weak as they are.
Posted by: Michael Gersh at February 1, 2012 2:34 PM
None of which is any excuse for not allowing the rare women who CAN cut it in professions requiring strength to go into such professions - as long as the standards are not altered to allow it.
Posted by: Fletcher Christian at February 1, 2012 3:37 PM
Equal pay for equal work. But first I want to see the equal work.
Posted by: OldFert at February 1, 2012 5:48 PM
You tell him Fert. There will never be equality until a heterosexual man can sleep his way to the top.
Posted by: Casca at February 2, 2012 8:30 AM
Casca, you might like this one:
Q. "How do girls get minks?"
A. "The same way minks get minks."
Posted by: Fletcher Christian at February 3, 2012 6:49 AM