Society wrote:

> "MCP"  reported in message
> news:JN90e.115197$Bk7.6186{at}fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
>
>>  http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/sommers200503220754.asp
>>
>>  March 22, 2005, 7:54 a.m.
>>  Who Stole Harvard?
>>  Big Sisters and Larry Summers.
>>
>>  By Christina Hoff Sommers
>>
>>  The Harvard faculty of arts and science
>>  just last week passed
>
>
> ....gas.  Then they whined that the feminist agenda
> was too low on their college president's To Do list.
>
>
>>  [For another example of feminist stupidity,
>>  Megan Urry was part of a feminist campaign
>>  to rename the Big Bang Theory. As she told
>
>
> ....pouted to...
>
>
>>  a CNN interviewer, "A lot of the style is very
>>  macho, and that can be off-putting to young
>>  women, and 'big bang' is just another little grain
>> of sand in that big sandbox."
>
>
> Gee, and what might Suzy Derkins think of the
> alternative term, "Horrendous Space Kablooie"?
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horrendous_Space_Kablooie
>
> Oh, and any twat (or twit) who poutfully equates
> "macho" with "masculine" is (a) an idiot and (b) a
> bigot (or bigotette) toward Hispanic Latin cultures.
>
Next week we rename MANchester - PERSONchester
while RickMANsworth will become Rick PERSONsworth

D.

>
>>  [...] A week or so after she was quoted in the
>>  Angier article [in the feminist rag of Pinch
>>  Sulzberger's], Urry entered the fray with her
>>  own attack article on Summers in the
>>  Washington Post. She sees bias and sexism
>>  in the choice made by many women to leave
>>  science and stay home with children. She does
>>  not regard such choices as freely made: "What
>>  troubles me is that I rarely saw men making...
>>  the choice to stay home with kids."
>
>
> Men don't get "the choice to stay home with kids"
> because women don't permit that choice to men.
>
>    Phil Donahue was on the TV in the waiting room
>    of an auto shop where I was getting an oil change.
>    The topic was "Men who stay home with their kids."
>    When the mechanic came to tell me my car was ready,
>    he stopped to watch the show. "What do you think
>    of that?" I asked.... "I'd love to do that,"
>    he answered, "but my wife took that job. She didn't
>    even ask. She just took it."
>
>    from _If Men Have All the Power How Come Women
>    Make the Rules_ by Jack Kammer,
>    www.rulymob.com - publishers. (1999) page 88.
>
>
>>  It simply never occurs to her that men and
>>  women might actually be wired differently
>>  when it comes to preferences for a domestic
>>  life style.
>
>
> And it "simply never occurs to" Mrs. Sommers,
> that women are privileged "when it comes to
> preferences for a domestic life style."  In his
> landmark book _The Myth of Male Power_,
> Dr. Warren Farrell disclosed the huge percentage
> of men who'd be eager to stay home with their
> kids -- but only if the woman approved of her
> man doing so!  Women, in contrast, have no
> worries that their man might not approve of
> her ceasing to earn money to support the family
> household.  (Feminists call that 'equality' -- when
> they're not bawling as 'Piggin' Urry' does, that
> this woman's privileged position is somehow
> "oppressive to women".  Sheesh!)
>


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