Quick notes from around the blogosphere, that yours truly was too tired to blog about this weekend: Larry “Girls Aren’t Any Good at Math” Summers will not be named as Secretary of the Treasury, but will be the Director of the White House’s National Economic Counsel. Now that we’ve come into post-racial healing by installing an African-American in the White House (well, as of 20 January), we can get over identity politics. As I’ve said before, Obama’s slogan is history for me, but not for thee.
Now for the weekly (ha!) Haemet contest: guess how long it will take progressive feminists - who backed Obama, in part, due to the belief of shared repression and social stigma - to realise that he just doesn’t give a damn about women.
In news relating to the Clinton Administration, sexual harassment is now defined as “…not the intent of the alleged harasser, but the impact on the recipient.” (Hat tip: Michelle Malkin.) Now, a particularly dense man is not immune from sexual harassment charges, simply because he had no idea that women don’t like being pinched on their butts. We also do not want the situation in which a man could say, “I didn’t mean it!” and escape liability for behaviour that is clearly inappropriate. We all understand this. However, the proper legal response is not to replace one entirely subjective test (i.e. the harasser’s statement of his intentions) with another, equally subjective test (i.e. the harm to the recipient). Rather, the appropriate question is whether or not the behaviour would be found objectionable by a reasonable person.
After all, it isn’t very hard to offend people. Consider this video of Gov. Palin’s gubernatorial pardon of a Thanksgiving turkey. First, she pardoned a turkey; then, she made her closing remarks as the non-pardoned turkeys were slaughtered in the background. This is supposed to be “awkward” at best, and an abomination at worst. Now, chickies, maybe you don’t know where your Thanksgiving turkeys come from, or why a turkey pardon would be needed in the first place, but it has a lot to do with those formerly living animals that were killed against their will. Eat all the meat you want, but please don’t shed tears for the animals that died for it. Really, people - being against this video and being a carnivore is like being a pro-choicer who can’t stand the Centre for Bioethical Reform’s posters.
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The progressive feminist never ADMITTED knowing it about Clinton during his term (although deep down inside…), so why would they admit it towards Dear Leader, Chairman Obama?
Clay Bowler’s last blog post..Poor Peggy Joseph
Yep, the feminist movement lost credibility forever when they ignored Clinton’s behavior.
The turkey thing was amusing. The only people who can criticize her without being hypocrites are vegetarians, and I’m pretty sure her approval level was already kinda low with them.
Ack! You don’t like Larry Summers? Contrary to what you’ve implied, he never said women weren’t good at math. He merely said that it was time to do some thinking outside the pc box, and used that as an example postulation.
That said, I’ll say it: Women are in general not very good at math. I have no idea why, but 8 out of 10 women reading that statement will agree with it, though not out loud. There are of course exceptions. I’m married to one.
I’m not dissing women. They are much better at expressing themselves, caring about stuff, expressing feelings, having feelings, organization… the list is long. It just doesn’t include math in most cases.
Don’t hate on Larry Summers.
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Gentlemen - I’m a female, vegetarian, Palin-loving engineer. Harrumph to the both of you. :p
Clay - thanks for stopping in. Good point re: feminists giving Clinton a pass.
Nice! I’m sorry to hear that you are a veg, but female engineers are awesome. Were your engineering classes as devoid of females as mine were?
ps - vegetarianism is NOT incurable. You just have to work on it. Start with eating fried shrimp. From there, it’s just a hop, skip and a jump to steak. You’ll be eating well in no time!
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Thank you.
My engineering classes were about 40% female (that’s because I was chem-e, and not comp-e or EE). My alma mater was about 1/3d girls in engineering, 2/3ds boys. Highest two GPAs in my class were from girls. My old engineering firm had similar proportions of women and men - somewhere in the 30-40% range.
Haha! I’m chem e too! Clearly, you see more women engineers than I do. My graduating class was ~13% women (I think 6 out of 47).
Oh well, no point in arguing.
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We had prime rib for dinner today due to Governor Palin exposing the truth behind those butterballs in the grocery store.
Just kidding, we had it because we like it better than turkey and had a coupon for $15 off. 
Sunflower Desert’s last blog post..What’s for Dinner?
Kevin,
Well, I did go to a school that worked really hard to be friendly to female engineers, recruit them, and the like. I’m not sure if the end result was that women who otherwise wouldn’t have been engineers went into the programme, or they just took female engineers who would have gone to other schools, or some of both.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Tammi,
ROFLMAO! Turkey, from what I recall, is a very dry and tasteless meat. Even the drumstick doesn’t have much flavour; chicken has quite a bit more. You need the gravy just to make it edible.