"Why (Some) Men Don’t Support Summers" is my new VDARE column. An excerpt:
Obviously, feminist intimidation plays a huge role. But some of the gentlemen actually seem to be semi-sincere.
No doubt a few have become true believers in the politically-correct cant with which they have been so heavily indoctrinated.
But a more interesting subset, however, are the male science and engineering types who support gender quotas for women out of self-interest. My theory: they see the feminists' vendetta against Summers as their chance to get revenge on the female sex for its annoying femaleness.
Why do these men insist that sexist discrimination and socialization are the only possible reasons there are fewer women than men in their own fields?
Why do they demand massive social engineering to get more women to become as obsessive about the pocket-protector professions as they are?
Paradoxically, this is typically because of how little these nerds appreciate women. They don't like females the way they are. They want a vast societal effort to remold women into liking the same nerdy things they like.
That way, maybe, nerds can finally get dates.
It's roughly same reason you see so many butt-kicking babes in movies aimed at male teenage comic book geeks—such as "The Matrix," "X-Men," "Charlie's Angels," and "Tomb Raider" franchises. It’s always hyped in the press as female empowerment. But it's driven far more by the adolescent male's wish that sexy girls would stop being interested in all that boring girl stuff like relationships and start being interested in cool guy stuff, like kung-fu fighting and really big guns.
There’s also a somewhat older male constituency for re-engineering American society to persuade females to care more about crankshafts and subatomic particles and less about stereotypical female interests like other human beings: scientist and engineer fathers who hunger for a child to follow in their professional footsteps.
Increasingly, these men lack the sons who they would previously have browbeaten into studying their specialties. Smaller family sizes mean fewer men have sons. Roughly half of all one-child families and one quarter of all two-child families have only daughters. So men are putting more pressure on their little girls to follow in their footsteps.
You see the same dynamic in kids' baseball these days. There will eight 11-year-old boys on the field, and one girl, out in right field. She doesn't particularly want to be there. But her dad played a little ball back in school, and has always dreamed of a son who will fulfill his jock dreams. However, he doesn't have one. So she has to stand in.
It would make this father's job easier if society propagandized girls even more about how fashionable it is for girls to do traditionally male things. [...More]
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