I’d put it a different way; if you don’t like men, you’re going to be a terrible mother to a boy.
Category Archives: Education
The First Amendment
…and the lesson of Robespierre:
Once we stop treating the Internet as just a medium like newsprint and start treating Internet hosting companies as publishers, we make them vulnerable to oppressors and we can be sure that some of them will not have what we see as the “public good” in mind.
This is the lesson of Robespierre: once you establish that something may be done for you, you establish that it can be done to you.
Similarly, as Barry Goldwater and others have said, a government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take it all away.
Gender Is A Social Construct
A foundational tenet of academic feminism holds that alleged differences between males and females are socially constructed. This credo usually maximizes the opportunities for charging sexism, yet it will be discarded in an instant if acknowledging the innate biological and psychological differences between men and women yields an additional trove of feminist complaint. The current issue of the Yale Alumni Magazine shows how the game is played.
For years, medical research neglected “sex and gender differences” in health, according to the magazine. “Historically, the narrative of medicine has been driven by data derived from white men around the age of 40,” the associate dean for curriculum at the Yale Medical School told the magazine’s reporter. Clinical trials only occasionally included females and when they did, the results were rarely analyzed by sex. It’s mysterious why this alleged neglect should matter, if sex differences are “socially constructed.” If males and females are the same psychologically and physically before the patriarchy starts assigning sex roles, then medical research need not distinguish between males and females, either.
It turns out, however, that males and females differentially respond to stress, environmental risk factors, drugs, and disease, as an initiative called Women’s Health Research at Yale devotes itself to documenting. . . .
Such discoveries should be the death knell for social constructivism. Along with many others like them, they buttress the possibility that uneven sex ratios in various fields are in part the result of males and females’ different average dispositions toward competition, risk, and abstract rather than people-centered work (an observation that got computer engineer James Damore fired from Google).
And yet, feminist social-justice warriors are perfectly capable of proceeding on several contradictory fronts simultaneously.
It’s almost as though they select these whacko theories only in order to serve an agenda.
[Update a few minutes later]
Related: No, the professional engineering exam is not gender biased.
First-Amendment Theater
Some thoughts from what seems to be a rare bird these days: An actual news organization.
I have to say that teaming up to prove that the media isn't colluding against Trump is the most hilarious example of their lack of self awareness to date.
And you want more Trump? This is how you get more Trump. His genius is to get them to reveal themselves. https://t.co/1P6jAYg1ux
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) August 16, 2018
Democratic Socialism,
…is totalitarian slavery.
Yup.
Jordan Peterson And The Left
They hate him because he’s figured out how to route around their corruption and opposition to western civilization.
John Cox
Can he beat Gavin Newsom in California for governor?
I sure hope so. We are in weird political times, but it will take a smart campaign. Given that stupid jungle-primary rule, Republicans have to be happy they even have a candidate in the race. They don’t in the Senate.
Antifa
Is it the future of the Democrats?
I hope so, because if so, it means, finally, the death of this old horrific, racist, and now totalitarian political party.
Penn Jillette
An interesting candid interview, with bonus knowledgable commentary on the crudeness of Trump.
[Update late afternoon]
Sorry about originally misspelling his name “Gillette.” Guess it’s because I’ve always thought he was a pretty sharp guy.
The Great White Culture War
An important piece from David French.
On a related note, it occurs to me that one could probably find things that Hitler said about the Jews that are analogous to things that the current leftist fascists say about whites (and Jews).