Jason Sperry wrote:
> An interesting contrast to the furor over Harvard president Lawrence
> Summers (who raised the possibility of innate differences between
> men and women being one of the reasons fewer women succeed in
> science and math careers) is the silence to comments made by British
> Minister of Parliament and Chairman of the Commons Educational
> Committee, Barry Sheerman, explaining his lack of concern over
> increasingly poor academic performance by boys :
>
>
>  Huddersfield MP Barry Sheerman said there was a "danger" of
> being obsessed about how boys were doing at school: "My own personal
> view is that women are brighter than men," the MP said, adding that
> women now earned on average more than men as middle managers. He
> said: "We should celebrate this, shouldn't we? The brightest kids
> are coming through and they happen to be women." 

One would think that Barry Sheerman would want the _entire_ population
of his country to be productive.  Apparently, he's satisfied if only
half of them produce.

> Story at : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4079653.stm
>
> Oddly enough nobody criticised Barry Sheerman for these comments,
> let alone asked for his regisgnation like some have in the Summers'
> case.  His comments are far worse than what Summers said, but
> apparently it is socially acceptable if targets are boys and men.

Par for the course.  It happens all the time here.  People come up with
study after study after poorly-done study that supposedly demonstrate
female superiority.  No one says a thing, but that quack biology
professor said she got "physically ill" when she heard Summers'
comments.  It was like watching Jean Kelly put the back of her hand to
her head and exclaim, "Good heavens!  I'm going to faint."  Perhaps if
I sent her a derisive letter, she'd drop dead.



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