Global Warming Is All Men’s Fault, Part III
Nothing particularly wrong with the cartoon above by Chan Lowe of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, except, as I’ve noted on numerous occassions, it seems strange that we rarely see a cartoon which implicates a woman in global warming, only men.
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August 3rd, 2007 at 1:56 pm
Just think Glenn if it was not for the inventiveness of the male of the species, we would still be living in grass huts and we would never have heard of feminism.
Sigh!
August 3rd, 2007 at 4:13 pm
My favorite “If men were as feminists say we are there would be no feminists.”
August 3rd, 2007 at 6:21 pm
JamesH is onto something:
He probably read “Sexual Personna” by Camille Paglia. A tediously written book, I was nonetheless able to wade through it. Her argument is that men are internally geared for creativity. Without male creativity, as she put it in one of her light moments, “we would all still be sleeping in grass huts.”
In fact men have been responsible for about 100% of all inventions, including the combustion engine. Indeed, it was teams of men who have signficantly reduced carbon levels in California’s central valley today.
The handfull of inventions women have been responsible for is not impressive: the Barbie doll, the Ken doll, and the bra. I believe in 1910 one woman participated in the development of a hand powered windshield washer. Madame Currie, a gallant woman if there ever was, always insisted she was only completing her deceased husband’s work.
A good book to check out is Charles Murray’s work on creativity (title escapes me; but you’ll have no trouble locating it.) Physical inventions aside, men comprise 100% of the great philosophers, 100% of the composers, 100% of the mathemeticians, 100% of the theologans, 100% of the medical advances, and 100% of just about everything else except literature. There, women comprise just 4% of great authors. A survey by Mr. Murray revealed that since 1970 the success ratios have not changed to any degree–other than the overall creativity of the human species has somewhat declined.
Regards global warming! When we develop the hydra tubes that will stretch from the Greenland Ice Cap to North Africa ,and the turbines to propel the ice water through those tubes into the Sahara Desert, you can bet the creativity portion of the project will be comprised of men only.
August 4th, 2007 at 12:07 am
This might explain why even today over 90% of the engineering degrees are awarded to men.
While women can have a valuable contribution to make to a design team on an engineering project, I believe that the dominence of men in the engineeering and hard sciences is due to the traditional male role as breadwinner. The engineers, inventors, physicians composers, philosophers, etc. were all trying to make a buck!
Fahrenheit made a fortune selling those thermometers. Imhotep got the biggest paycheck in ancient Egypt outside the pharaoh’s family for being the project manager for the pyramids. Charles Coulomb collaberated with Ben Franklin about electrical charges. Coulomb managed to avoid Dr. Guillotine’s invention, not every French scientist and inventor of the Metric System was so lucky. Edison inented the light bulb and a multitude of other devices, while Tesla invented a coil remarkably similar to the ignition coils used in most automobiles. Corporations such as Boeing, McDonnell-Douglas, Dodge, and Ford are not named for women.
While Pontiac fought a war to stop excessive immigration, the primary motivation for building automobiles is, of course, to earn a paycheck!
August 4th, 2007 at 2:41 pm
Roger:
Your recitations were very interesting, all the way to the last sentence. Creativity, whether it is philosophy, literature, music, painting, science, military science, mathematics, or engineering is a big crap shoot. The wives of too many composers and inventors spent too many years living hand to mouth.
The paycheck is incidental. Men’s minds are intended to focus; women’s are intended for distraction, or to be polite, “socialization.” Much material has been written about the dichotomy between the male and female brain. Check out “Male, Female, the Evolution of Human Sex Differences,” by David Geary, 1998; also Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan, the authors of “Mean Genes.” They conclude the dichotomy between the human sexes is so great, they deal with men and women as if they were different subspecies. Very important too is “Taking Sex Differences Seriously,” by Steven Roades.
August 4th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
christopher.. ESTHER VILAR.. in her book “the manipulated male” states modern women brains are somewhat atrophying because of lack of use..
She says..”One of the basic principals of biology is that inteligence develops only in the face of competitive stimulation”
“women stand outside every competitive field. The glut of modern conveniences dulls their brains, reduceing what little is left of their capacity fot thought”.
“the result is women are getting increaseingly more stupid, while men grow more and more inteligent”
I say.. Are we as a society, by feeding every whim of the womens, in effect hurting her in the long run!!
August 5th, 2007 at 5:54 pm
I observe that American women invent, engineer little, instead, they wait for a company to become profitable, then complain to the government and lobbists that women are not leaders and managers in American corporations.
Woman’s complaints are backed by affirmative action laws and feminized agancies and courts of our government.
For me “girl power” rings hollow.
However, American women do excel at abortion and receiving money from men, among other things.
August 5th, 2007 at 7:20 pm
“I say.. Are we as a society, by feeding every whim of the womens, in effect hurting her in the long run!!”
We are also destroying America over the short term by feeding their every whim. Over 50% of managers are women. This through the mandates of affirmative action and the Department of Justice. I have never once in my life met a female who was as competitive as me, who worked as hard as me, handled as much stress as me, or created and produced as much as me. I have never met a woman as dedicated as me. Faced with a system stacked against them at every turn more and more men see no point in playing an integral part of the economy. We are losing our competitive edge and are becoming more and more mediocre in the global economy. We are losing our animal instincts and are getting soft. Blame feminism and what it has done to this country. All we have left is our economies of scale to leverage in our favor but that will only last for so long. Eventually we will have to compete head to head with the rest of the world that is not tied down by our feminist/marxist dictates. By then we will no longer be capable.