tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post3889985409095965375..comments2024-03-28T16:22:14.888-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Feminism: Making children cry on Christmas since 1969Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-48092477258711481532012-12-17T13:06:01.335-08:002012-12-17T13:06:01.335-08:00re: "childhood is just about the only phase o...re: "childhood is just about the only phase of life where differences between the genders show up so starkly"<br /><br />If that were true feminist dogma wouldn't be having such a rough time of it 4 decades on. It suffers disparately from the Fool All The People All The Time Principle since most people are equipped to observe sex differences at all phases of life. Childhood is the "only" battleground because of the left's Rousseau/Frankfurt priority placed upon it, and also the battleground of choice (since reality better asserts itself over lifetimes).<br /><br />Where feminism has succeeded most is with the destruction of a lot of traditional knowledge, both hard-earned and accidental, as one generation naturally raises the next. There is an educational animation from the late 40s, easily available thanks to the Youtube Internet miracle machine, that was a joint production of Disney and Kotex--I believe the former had to obtain Kimberly-Clark's permission to create it--on the topic of guess-what, which yields web feminister hissing every time it crops up. The absence of nurturist assumptions/dogma in that video is pretty stunning.Alcalde Jaime Miguel Curleohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11801154986193443160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-23930409921027320782012-12-17T12:02:33.811-08:002012-12-17T12:02:33.811-08:00@David Davenport
You got it backwards. Women are ...@David Davenport<br /><br />You got it backwards. Women are slowly taking over mercantile pharmacy (CVS, Rite-Aid, Duane Reade, supermarket/Walmart stores.) Conversely, male pharmacists (without families, naturally) can earn upwards of $1000/sick day or maternity leave day taken by the more "desirable" women. Every 3-4 years, our business receives a "glut" of new graduates. By Year 2, the big name stores are offering upwards of $150/hour for "temps" to pick up the slack when their female pharmacists begin to earn their final feminist merit badge (got the degree, got the job, got the "respect", got the travel, got the man. Now, l they need is the child for the final two pieces: "made a kid" and "having it all"!)<br /><br />Large cities (New York, LA, Dallas, Chicago) can have their Rx-supplying needs met. Smaller cities (I'm not talking about Fargo or Charleston, I'm talking cities as large as Minneapolis or Portland) tend to be left behind the 8-ball when even 10-15% of the female pharmacists need to go to their doctor appointments. Or stay home due to morning sickness. Or when the baby is running a 39C fever and the local paediatricians are swamped. So, the call for "temps" begins (because they can't afford to let even one day of prescriptions go unfilled) and the business owners will pay top dollar for qualified personnel. I have an aunt that (after 40 years of trumpeting girl power) flat-out refuses to use any female health professionals for that very reason. In the last decade, she's switched doctors more than a dozen times (because female doctors retire earlier and take more days off than male doctors. Her current doctor was her former female doctor's "choice substitute".) <br /><br />Her current pharmacy is literally an hour away from her home, because all of her "walking distance" pharmacies are staffed by 1 woman, half of whom are sick/pregnant/nursing/home on any given day. After a "temp" pharmacist made a mistake that put my uncle in the hospital for a month, my aunt has embraced consistency and competence over "girl power". Unfortunately for her, her current pharmacist (my mentor, btw) is 55 years old and brags about the fact that he's earned an extra $100,000/year since Bush's re-election in 2004, just from working 2 weekends a month as a "temp". My mentor's "second" is a guy who shows up at midnight three times a week, fills prescriptions until 6AM, counsels patients until 9AM, and earns $2100/week after taxes. He *won't* be replacing my mentor next year, as the idea of working full time (when he's literally putting $4000/month in a CD every month) is a *step down*.<br /><br />Seriously speaking, women make up 40% of all working doctors, yet it is like pulling teeth to make an appointment if you aren't invalid, an old patient or willing to pay cash in hand. By 2020, more than half of America's doctors will be women. Pregnancy/family related scarcity will make working doctors even richer.MaMu1977http://www.youtube.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-72797306573691469862012-12-17T10:45:06.257-08:002012-12-17T10:45:06.257-08:00a chick said...
"Chicks hate female bosses, ...<br />a chick said...<br /><br /><i>"Chicks hate female bosses, you know. Faludi knows it, too, so why not investigate it?"<br /><br />For the millionith time. Not all.</i><br /><br /><b>ProTip:</b> Statements of the form "Group X has characteristic Y" virtually always should be read to mean "Group X disproportionately has characteristic Y."<br /><br />Failing to read this way is failing to read. Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-21054063335803128412012-12-17T09:13:55.121-08:002012-12-17T09:13:55.121-08:00Just as an aside, it's interesting to look at ...Just as an aside, it's interesting to look at the original article's arguments. When otherwise smart people make really stupid, easily-refuted statements in print, I think that's usually an indication that they're living in an intellectual/ideological bubble, in which the obvious-to-me refutation just doesn't ever come up. <br /><br />People make weak, crappy arguments when they can get away with them, and often, they don't even realize how crappy and weak they are, because nobody ever points that out. That's one great danger of spending too much time in the same intellectual bubble--if you only talk to liberal feminists at Berkeley, or conservative econ students at the University of Chicago, you simply never even bump into some ideas and facts. <br /><br />The next time you see someone make a statement as silly as that bit about childhood being the only place where gender differences are apparent, or the common nonsense about how race has no biological meaning, recognize it for the sign it is--this person lives in a bubble in which this nonsense sounds like sense. (And so do all of us, for some version of "nonsense" and "sense," but it's possible to do better or worse there.) NOTAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-8642087739725625412012-12-17T09:07:08.862-08:002012-12-17T09:07:08.862-08:00From childhood forward, people choose what they li...From childhood forward, people choose what they like, not what you, I, or your favorite curmudgeon wants them to like. Sometimes, that means your boys make guns and killer robots out of their Legos, sometimes it means your girl wantsto go build a fort with her brothers while wearing the pretty pink dress she insisted on wearing. <br /><br />For whatever reason, most ideologues seem to have endless trouble with this. Nobody gives a damn what you think they should want or choose or like--they have their own desires. A certain strain of feminists spend all their time complaining about basically this issue, and inventing elaborate reasons why women and men are somehow being fooled or coerced into wanting the wrong things. They are exactly as tiresome as that strain of religious conservatives who say the same stuff, and sometimes even end up on the same side as the feminists. <br /><br />Meanwhile, the world moves on. Absent some kind of Stalinist or Taliban-like machinery of persuasion, these curmudgeons' rants will have zero effect on anything. Girls and boys will play with the toys they like, read the books they like, etc., subject to a little pushback from parents and friends around the edges, but little else. Maybe women will suddenly start getting more interested in programming and engineering and math, maybe not, but in no case will this be because some grumpy old lady somewhere demanded that they start liking math more, or boys start liking it less. NOTAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-38162169475521053302012-12-17T06:02:02.943-08:002012-12-17T06:02:02.943-08:00"Thus, Ms. Rosin, for example, founded a webs..."Thus, Ms. Rosin, for example, founded a website named DoubleX aimed at readers with two X chromosomes." I know a lot of websites that are Triple X, but those seem to be geared toward men.Dahindanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-47037797344181577842012-12-17T05:31:41.478-08:002012-12-17T05:31:41.478-08:00"..... before the whole thing collapsed under..."..... before the whole thing collapsed under the weight of its own vapidity." Outstanding prose, sir.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-42815070725217349172012-12-16T13:23:09.813-08:002012-12-16T13:23:09.813-08:00@ Anonymous 12/16/12 11:10 AM
Actually, the nurse...@ Anonymous 12/16/12 11:10 AM<br /><br />Actually, the nurses have offloaded a lot of the more mundane human contact to "care partners" and "medical assistants." Computer diagnosis can be done, but it's only as good as the answers given by the patients. There is a GIGO problem. The intellectually less sophisticated patients, which in the real world where most people lack college degrees is most of them, also need explanation and exhortation to follow a treatment course to the end.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-71154958422431410562012-12-16T11:14:53.773-08:002012-12-16T11:14:53.773-08:00Anonymous said...
"For the millionith time. N... Anonymous said...<br />"For the millionith time. Not all. "<br /><br />http://isteve.blogspot.com/2012/12/intellectual-discourse-taking.html<br /><br />. For the millionth and one time..<br /><br />Just came off a contract where the lady was so genuinely nice and encouraging it made me nervous because I wasn't confident about pleasing her enough. I would almost have preferred a bulldog.<br />It's true. We so want to please. a chicknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-17878170485541440802012-12-16T11:10:58.316-08:002012-12-16T11:10:58.316-08:00""So what the high status fields of the ...""So what the high status fields of the future?"<br /><br />elite nursing according to hana rosin, unless the japanese robots get there first."<br /><br />No reason why the robots shouldn't get to the lawyers and doctors (in fact, computer diagnosis is done) before nursing. Nursing usually involves more human contact than doctoring. I remember a rather smart girl declaring she was going to be a hairdress so no computer could take her job.<br />And politicians--pls, outsource them all. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-51429749611795718792012-12-16T00:23:11.998-08:002012-12-16T00:23:11.998-08:00"For the millionith time. Not all. "
ht..."For the millionith time. Not all. "<br /><br />http://isteve.blogspot.com/2012/12/intellectual-discourse-taking.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-51882394664604332652012-12-15T23:51:03.215-08:002012-12-15T23:51:03.215-08:00"A sure sign that the status of and income fr..."A sure sign that the status of and income from law and medical careers will decline in future"<br /><br />didn't atlantic run a piece about female doctors earning less(because they work less), and of course the law student travails are legend.<br /><br />http://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1328496&forum_id=2%29<br /><br />"So what the high status fields of the future?"<br /><br />elite nursing according to hana rosin, unless the japanese robots get there first.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-17746347487194603522012-12-15T23:41:32.996-08:002012-12-15T23:41:32.996-08:00I liked Salon's imprint, "Broadsheet"...I liked Salon's imprint, "Broadsheet"... Mediaite's "Jane Dough" was actually clever IMO, but Denton/Gawker's "Jezebel" is the kind of lame, self-congratulatory, on-the-nose signaling you remember from college newspapers. Whereas the Jewish Daily Forward calling theirs "The Sisterhood" was utterly uninspiredAlcalde Jaime Miguel Curleohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11801154986193443160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-51935737359744314872012-12-15T21:55:44.643-08:002012-12-15T21:55:44.643-08:00On one hand, I bristle at the idea of pushing gend...On one hand, I bristle at the idea of pushing gender neutrality in toys.<br /><br />On the other hand I'm a brony.<br /><br />Make of that what you will.Glaivesterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16867323638154972101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-2609319418451729382012-12-15T20:19:15.792-08:002012-12-15T20:19:15.792-08:00"A sure sign that the status of and income fr..."A sure sign that the status of and income from law and medical careers will decline in future."<br /><br />So what the high status fields of the future?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-23761668699696182052012-12-15T20:17:37.351-08:002012-12-15T20:17:37.351-08:00"Chicks hate female bosses, you know. Faludi ..."Chicks hate female bosses, you know. Faludi knows it, too, so why not investigate it?"<br /><br />For the millionith time. Not all. I've had female bosses I loved, some I hated. But then, most of my bosses have been female, so I've not been spoiled for choice.a chicknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-13984853556789480092012-12-15T17:24:27.145-08:002012-12-15T17:24:27.145-08:00There is a definite strain that are deeply neuroti...<i>There is a definite strain that are deeply neurotic, and use feminism as a crutch and a weapon to attack the scapegoat 'men' (in reality, white men) for all that is wrong in their little f'd up lives.</i><br /><br />The main thing that is wrong in their little f'd up lives is that they can't land a guy alpha enough to put them in their place because they aren't attractive enough shrews for an alpha to bother taming.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-90464190091376641002012-12-15T08:58:18.309-08:002012-12-15T08:58:18.309-08:00"P.S. The worst thing about the timetable com..."P.S. The worst thing about the timetable committee was the sheer ugliness of the participants. It was like being trapped on the Island of Dr Moreau"<br /><br />Very funny ...I've been there too... same type of situation. LMAO!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-41339017609112207182012-12-15T07:31:06.646-08:002012-12-15T07:31:06.646-08:00But in fact this is a false piece of evidence, or ...<i>But in fact this is a false piece of evidence, or at least extremely misleading, since childhood is just about the only phase of life where differences between the genders show up so starkly.</i><br /><br />Differences show up much more starkly later in life when men and women do things related to their actual sexual roles.ben tillmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-68736920645373436052012-12-15T07:29:43.200-08:002012-12-15T07:29:43.200-08:00Feminists tend to fall into 2 camps:
The young fe...Feminists tend to fall into 2 camps:<br /><br />The young feminists (college students) tend to be true believers, pushing a convenient ideology that just happens to benefit them, though it comes with a price- turning off many men, and having to support the ludicrous race nonsense. There is a definite strain that are deeply neurotic, and use feminism as a crutch and a weapon to attack the scapegoat 'men' (in reality, white men) for all that is wrong in their little f'd up lives.<br /><br />This group is the one who never grows out of it, some of whom become the crazed feminist professors who shriek at the slightest perceived challenge to their ideology, and constantly act in passive/agressive ways towards men the rest of their lives.<br /><br />It may be true that most people no longer believe in feminism, but this core always will. They need their psychological crutch too badly.Gozernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-59125832674100188782012-12-15T06:51:48.015-08:002012-12-15T06:51:48.015-08:00Susan Faludi actually attempted to find out why me...<i>Susan Faludi actually attempted to find out why men were so resistant to female power, and wound up writing a whole book, 'Stiffed', about the experience.</i><br /><br />Did Faludi also attempt to find out why women are so resistant to female power? Chicks hate female bosses, you know. Faludi knows it, too, so why not investigate it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-23874848845514306132012-12-15T06:05:04.288-08:002012-12-15T06:05:04.288-08:00I don't get how these feminists can trumpet at...I don't get how these feminists can trumpet atheism, evolution and science on one hand, then yammer on about how the sexes are the same.<br /><br />1) Humans evolved over 100,000+ years of evolution. There's a reason why women are attracted to strong, powerful men.<br /><br />2) Women have XX sex chromosomes, and men have XY sex chromosomes. As each sex has an X chromosome, it has evolved to be stable and undergo little mutation with every genetic copy. The Y chromosome, on the other hand, varies wildly. This is generally why there are more male geniuses (and by the same token, morons) than women.<br /><br />These are 2 basic facts found in any intro to biology textbook. There are huge, red-flag differences between the sexes - and anyone claiming otherwise lacks intellectual integrity.Sarcasticushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14052522611014517355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-21400183534071145262012-12-15T04:33:20.556-08:002012-12-15T04:33:20.556-08:001). Progressive cause identified.
2). Progressive ...<br />1). Progressive cause identified.<br />2). Progressive cause gets funding.<br />3). Progressive cause employs lots of people.<br />4). Progressive cause wins battle.<br />5). Lots of progressives like cushy well-paid employment.<br />6). Gender studies = easy subject BUT has few students. <br />7). So, progressives have lots of time to sit on committees cutting physics and increasing gender studies. Also they can deny funding to people they don't like.<br />8). Some of what progressives originally argued for MAY have been worthwhile, but now they need to justify their existence.<br />9). So, progressives become more and more irrational.<br />10). New cause identified and the cycle repeats itself, but most of the progressives carry on fighting the old battles.<br /><br /><br /><br />Re 2)3) 5) and 7) how do they keep funding these causes.I can understand the very first say Black Lesbian Studies against Anglophallic Repression curricullum but surely at some point the bloom is of the rose especially after 4) so I dont get how the process can repeat itself.<br />How can a university with a straight face cut its computer science program but hold on to its women studies? HOW??? How do they justify it on ANY barometer? And why is there no outcry?ysv_raohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06078517736366792665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-12479700048468470162012-12-15T04:32:57.558-08:002012-12-15T04:32:57.558-08:00"The people of the white Anglosphere have giv..."The people of the white Anglosphere have given the world women's rights."<br /><br />anglo-chump has given rise to anglo-biatch<br /><br />http://kshatriya-anglobitch.blogspot.com/2011/01/anthony-ludovici-1882-1971-precursor-of.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-54946182282199737932012-12-14T22:09:38.576-08:002012-12-14T22:09:38.576-08:00Universities work like this.
1). Progressive caus...Universities work like this.<br /><br />1). Progressive cause identified.<br />2). Progressive cause gets funding.<br />3). Progressive cause employs lots of people.<br />4). Progressive cause wins battle.<br />5). Lots of progressives like cushy well-paid employment.<br />6). Gender studies = easy subject BUT has few students. <br />7). So, progressives have lots of time to sit on committees cutting physics and increasing gender studies. Also they can deny funding to people they don't like.<br />8). Some of what progressives originally argued for MAY have been worthwhile, but now they need to justify their existence.<br />9). So, progressives become more and more irrational.<br />10). New cause identified and the cycle repeats itself, but most of the progressives carry on fighting the old battles.<br /><br />In England, the Progressives have actually formed their own self-help organisation called Common Purpose. Its declared aim is to ensure that only other like-minded people get employment. I do not know why they have not been sacked for corruption.<br /><br />All academics claim to hate admin, but it's not true. Some of them love it, because they can appear busy without having to try too hard. Gender Studies-types love to fill in forms and organise committees.<br /><br />The most bizarre experience of my life was a timetable committee meeting which went on all day and where they did nothing but say how evil Mrs Thatcher was. Then there was the meeting where we discussed setting up a Cultural Studies Programme. A knot of them gathered in a corner and excluded the rest of us (who were only too happy to be excluded). They turned out to be specialists in Queer Theory. When I asked what that was, they all said: "Where have you been for the past twenty years?". I replied: "Planet Earth. Where have YOU been for the past twenty years?" Needless to say, my opinion was not asked again. The upshot was that a whole new course was designed that reduced world culture to Queer Theory. Fortunately, on this ONE occasion, their idiotic proposals were not taken up, but that is not always the case.<br /><br />P.S. The worst thing about the timetable committee was the sheer ugliness of the participants. It was like being trapped on the Island of Dr Moreau.2Degreesnoreply@blogger.com