Letters to the Editor
LeCastor
Published Letters: 1916 Editor's Choice: 86
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Parents
[Read the article: Early-rising Americans not ready for pretty childless women]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]you're absolutely right. So, if you're not a senator, please don't talk about the senate, because you don't know what it's like to be a senator. Don't talk about the president, because you've never been a president, and so on.
Right? right?
leme
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Tragula
[Read the article: Panel: Female scientists are not actually dumber]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yes, maybe gender does influence choices. The question, though, is whether those choices are influenced by inherent gender differences in intelligence/motivation/whatever, or by societal conditioning? If society always tells women they're not good at ssciences/math, that women are more suited towards "working with people" and that they should have children and have careers that can accommodate, should it be any surprise that women choose careers like PR, social work and nursing? And does that have any relation to whether women actually are not as good at math/sciences as men?
They are separate questions, and from what I understand, Summers was suggesting that it is born lack of aptitude, and not bias or societal conditioning, that is responsible.
PS Brightstar, you're psychotic.
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The Video
[Read the article: George Allen and the "aspersion" of Judaism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The video is right here:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=WNkw9_F16dI
And, from the video, it's still very puzzling as to why the audience booed, and why Allen called the question "aspersions." Well, "puzzling" is a polite term -- i can't think of any other reason for the booing or for the word "aspersions" than anti-Semitism.
I think the question was asked rather politely, and it seems as if the person asking it was reading from something, as if it wasn't even her own question.
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Supportive Atmosphere?
[Read the article: Closing the doors on single-sex education?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]1. Women's colleges do foster a more supportive academic atmosphere than mixed-gender academic settings.
What exactly is this "supportive atmosphere"?
I took classes at the other five colleges (Smith, UMass, Amherst, Hampshire) and with the exception of Hampshire, found the atmosphere in the co-ed classes to be positively caustic towards women.
Isn't Smith a women's college too?
I've found the same thing since in other academic situations - when taking classes at the University of Washington a few years ago, I was shocked to see how many men felt that my opinions and research could be quickly discounted simply because I was female. How do I know that I was being dismissed based on gender? Because the dismissers used their feeble foreign language skills to discuss how stupid women are, right in front of me. In a foreign language that I speak.
That's pretty awful. But let's compare apples to oranges -- Mt. Holyoke & Smith are more on par with places like NYU, Uchicago, etc., not the University of Washington.
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I'm with anon on this
[Read the article: Closing the doors on single-sex education?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]if a female-only environment is so wonderful, why not have female-only corporations and law firms, apart from the legal problems this could cause?
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Oh man
[Read the article: Panel: Female scientists are not actually dumber]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]HOW SO, ERINBOW?
Calling an MBA grad from a top 10 B-School a naive fool?
Are you willing to tell me Stephen Spielberg, Stephen King, Bill Gates, Donald Trump, Frank Gehry and all the other men making great profits from their genius are not more talented, creative, enterprising, gutsy than their B-level, C-level and below counterparts, man or woman, in their respective fields?
Since you are such a genius in your own mind, name JUST one female filmmaker, author, entrepreneur, developer, architect who has a FRACTION of the talent of these men- and that thus is being rewarded by the free markets.
On the other hand, I can name some names: Oprah, Carly Fiorina, Shakira, Martha Stewart, Ann Rice. These women are all immensely talented and thus rewarded by the public.
BUT I am sure you can name lots of navel gazing, self absorbed, plaintive, whiny, untalented, snotty, disrespectful, gloomy performance (bullshit) artists with a huge sense of entitlement, MOSTLY FEMALE, which nobody wants to pay to see but which YOU think are the cat's pyjamas.
-- brightstar65
Your post betrays your ignorance, not any greater talent men have. First of all, your examples are not actually very good -- you and i can have a debate about who has more talent, Steven Spielberg or Sophia Coppola, because Spielberg, inho, isn't actually that talented. Stephen King is trash -- Danielle Steele and maybe, at best, Agatha Christie is his counterpart, not people like Camille Paglia. Also I'm not sure when money suddenly equaled an indicator of talent. Queen elizabeth is super rich, but what is her talent?
Also, you dimwit, there's people out there like zaha hadid...
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It's time to come out, buddy
[Read the article: Closing the doors on single-sex education?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]FOR THE RECORD
I have been a big supporter of gays and lesbians for decades, considering them to be the 'canaries in the coalmine' of an increasingly fascistic society.
I also find most of them to be smarter, more interesting, and more ambitious than the average straight- there is a reason they gravitate to wonderful, creative cities like SF, NYC, Austin. I consider gay men in particular to be the only men with the balls to challenge amnd stand up to the rampant man hatred in this society.
-- brightstar65
So
(1) You think all women are gold-digging shallow whores
(2) You think pretty women don't want you for those reasons
(3) So you hate all women, and are convinced they don't like you.
(4) the only woman you have ever expressed an interest in is Camille Paglia, who is (1) gay, and (2) therefore, completely impossible for you to attain.
(5) and now you express an admiration for gay men in particular.
Now, i'm no one to jump to calling someone gay, but...
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Oh anon
[Read the article: Closing the doors on single-sex education?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]First of all, i'm not against strip clubs or porn, i'm all for it, and i'm a feminist. But anyway
Why does he care if women like him? he's still closeted and trying to figure out how to fit his gayness into a straight mold, so because his interpersonal relationships with women don't work (because HE'S GAY), he tried to rationalize why he doesn't like women, and why they don't like him (probably because he's very weird and akward in person). So, he thinks he's straight, and he would love to not come out of the closet, so he wants women to like him, he wants some woman to come by and love him and let him "stay straight." But we all know how likely that is...