Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Yes, Vagina, There Really Are Differences Between Men And Women
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Some women do ballsy, physically stuff, but the truth is, the Evilla Knievels of the world are very few and far between — the point being that men and women truly are different in some ways, and denying that is silly, divisive, and seriously counterproductive.By admitting the differences — say, for example, the way women and men tend to see dirt and mess differently (women tend to notice, um, detail, around the house; men, who evolved better distance vision from their days chasing wildebeests, tend to step over it) — maybe we can all get along a little better.
She makes a lot of good sense, for a chick.
No, seriously: This is the point where, whether the assertion is made by a gentleman or a lady, these “Men And Women Are Exactly The Same!” types come swarming out of the woodwork. The two major weapons in their arsenal: Comparing the elites with the commons (“I’ll bet you can’t run any faster than Jackie Joyner-Kersee!”), and comparing the gonna-dooz with the hav-dunz (“If women ran the world, we wouldn’t have all these wars…like we see with the men in charge of things.”) Both about as intellectually dishonest as you can possibly get. And, both much more concerned with making women better, goddess-like even, than the “same,” in comparison to those awful men.
I’m part of an expanding crowd of unfortunates: I had to learn about women twice in life, with explosive epiphanies, once before a financially devastating divorce and once afterward. There is a relationship between this misguided perception that we’re all the same, and a barely-muted hostility. If you’re my clone, what the hell do I need you around for? In fact, in what ways could you possibly appreciate me?
There is more, of course. The “Vive l’Difference” thing, in addition to being the key to a truly symbiotic, affectionate relationship between the sexes — constitutes a rare overlap between fundamentalist-religious types and the hardcore evolutionists. If you think we were put here by a Higher Power, there’s a good reason for men and women to be different. If you think we just grew here like fungus in a toilet bowl…there’s still good reason. As the human race toiled away in infancy, either carrying out the Lord’s work or evolving one chapter at a time…was it the gentlemen who raised the children back in the cave, and the ladies who dug holes in the ground to trap the woolly mammoth? Er, no…not quite. The two sexes evolved, or were created — perhaps both — differently. And we see evidence of it today. Doubt me? Trade chores with your “better half” one of these weekends. See if you can make it through without a major paradigm shift.
And that goes for both of you.
Therein lies the ugly secret about feminists and other “Men and Women are Exactly the Same” types. They are not well-rounded individuals. They do not easily absorb information. In most cases they haven’t been through a weekend-exercise like the one proposed above, nor would they be. Generally, they think men and women are the same creatures with the same abilities and same weaknesses, because they’ve been drifting through life, lazily, like plankton — filtering out any tidbit of information or evidence that would suggest the opposite. The decades come in, and go out, and throughout it all they commit the classical error of promoting with a militant exuberance certain “facts” they really don’t know. On average, they’re not very bright.
Hat tip for the Alkon article, to Dr. Helen.
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I find it odd that this is still a topic in any quarter of the universe. Feminists, and their neutered leash mates, have developed quite the twisted take on the human dynamic.
We’re different. And that’s a damn good thing. Men should stomp around conquering the universe and flexing their testosterone, women should get fierce about children and maintaining sexual control by wily means and keeping the edge on their shapely good looks.
I don’t want to marry a man that sews or throws a manbag over his shoulder, eats sprouts and hangs out at poetry night, not that there’s anything wrong with male seamstresses, etc., and no normal man wants to marry a female who ….damn, I came up blank, never mind, you guys constantly amaze me with what you consider tappable.
- Daphne | 04/17/2009 @ 15:23…and no normal man wants to marry a female who ….damn, I came up blank…
Oh darling, could I ever help you out with this one!
- mkfreeberg | 04/17/2009 @ 15:25Tell me everything, Morgan. I watch all you nice men chasing odd tail, and I wonder if you’ve lost your minds.
- Daphne | 04/17/2009 @ 15:37BTW, are you going to come over and piss on my chicken dreams, too? You seem to be the only man I like not telling me I’m a complete idiot so far.
- Daphne | 04/17/2009 @ 15:56No, I think your comment about eating your mistakes makes a lot of sense. They look plump and delicious.
As far as how they mix with suburbia, I’d say the most ludicrous example I’ve seen of this is near my old neighborhood — to be precise, right here. The chickens aren’t bright enough to dodge the cars, so the cars have to dodge the chickens. But it lends the neighborhood a certain charm.
I must say, if I were in your husband’s place, there would be a new household rule about checking with the benevolent patriarch first.
- mkfreeberg | 04/17/2009 @ 16:17I did check with him first. (always do) He shrugged and said have at it if I must, but to keep in mind he wasn’t getting involved with my folly.
Traffic. I hadn’t thought about that either. I am totally retarded.
Mine will be corralled with a six foot privacy fence, that should be enough to corral them, right?
- Daphne | 04/17/2009 @ 16:24