Amanda is discussing the the trial of Dominique Strauss-Kahn and his defense, and I don’t get her main point. Strauss-Kahn is defending his behavior by saying that women want to have sex with him all the time, and he only attends four orgies a year, because he’s a very busy man.
As is customary, I got up to a cacophony of demands and insults and questions on my computer. Among them was this odd thing:
@pzmyers I'm curious, why do you automatically defend people with ideas so obviously poorly thought out that they turn off YouTube comments?
— Bryan Leger (@MyBiAss) February 10, 2015
I’m curious, why do you automatically defend people with ideas so obviously poorly thought out that they turn off YouTube comments?
In case you were wondering, here’s a list of all the good things feminism has done for men.
A study of students in Israel by Victor Lavy and Edith Sand has discovered a surprising result…or maybe not so surprising to you, but I was rather shocked. Math teachers score girls’ performance lower when they know their identities.
I can’t really recommend this long article about MRAs. It’s not awful, but it seems determined to demonstrate something no one had questioned: “golly, not all MRAs are neckbearded trolls. They’re humans too!” OK, I know and agree; there are circumstances in which anyone could have a civilized conversation with them…which the author proceeds to do, talking to a random MRA named Max in Chicago, and also calling up Paul Elam and Roosh, and in every case doing his very best to put them in a good light, while not easing up on their awful opinions.
Guys, don’t do this. A man applied for a job he wasn’t really qualified for; the women who run the company turned him down; and then…oh, you can guess where it’s going. HOW DARE SOME IMPERIOUS LITTLE GIRLS
NOT RECOGNIZE HIS SUPERIORITY?
Anita Sarkeesian has been designated Harvard Humanist of the Year 2014. Congratulations to her, and good on the Harvard Humanists!
Apparently, evolutionary biology is a dangerous field for men’s brains — it totally warps them in ugly ways. In the ongoing saga of the decadence of Jeffrey Epstein, we have another testimonial. Epstein is the filthy rich fellow who allegedly buys and sells underage girls for his sex parties, and then buys a veneer of respectability by supporting eager, money-starved scientists and influential politicians. He is not a nice man. The latest story of Epstein’s corruption includes statements from another beneficiary of his tainted largesse.
Like this.
The laughably prestigious University of Qassim in Saudi Arabia held one of the biggest women’s rights conferences in the Arab world last year. Ironically, the institution managed to hold the event without the advice or attendance of a single woman.
Because I like pain, last night I attended a lecture brought in by the campus Republicans: “The Ugly Truth about Abortion: How It Does More Than Just Kill Babies”, by Kristan Hawkins, the head of Students for Life of America, and a recent transplant to Minnesota…so I guess we’ll be hearing more noise from her in the near future. Lucky us.
