When I was in grade school in the old country -a male dominated country in which members of the letter soup groups are publicly discriminated- all the teachers were women except the music teacher. So, this dominance of women in education, particularly early education, isn’t just something that happens here. It happens in many other societies. Perhaps there are more women in education, particularly grade school, because it’s considered more of a motherly profession?
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Where’s the cries about how this is barbaric? At least circumcision preserves basic functionality. even if it might [arguably] impede peak performance. Mutilating and utterly destroying the reproductive system for the sake of vanity is far more barbaric.
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Where’s the cries about how this is barbaric?
I thought that had already been covered pretty thoroughly further up. But if you need to hear it said, i don’t think people should be permanently damaging or mutilating children, in any form.
Maybe you meant that for someone else – since i thought you had “liked” my earlier comment about hormones not just “turning back on” and resulting in the original status-quo, so those kinds of therapies on kids are inherently problematic.
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You missed the second part of my statement and the main point of the article I cited: too many of the women in these fields have turned to the left and are pushing their radical agenda. The author of the article thinks that this inclination to adopt the leftist agenda may be due to something in female nature. You may disagree with him but claiming that this makes him a Taliban is not at all a convincing argument.
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If you can’t see that there is something fundamentally wrong with that opinion, well, I can’t help you… nobody can. It’s the type of mindset we see in the Taliban and other likeminded religious fanatics.
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About time!
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Can you recommend a good re-education camp for poor 'ol @onenote? One that will train him to realize that:
- No
minoritynon-white male group can ever have negative (as defined by the left) tendencies as a group. - Any
mentionthought of a non-white male group having negative tendencies, by a white male will result in public shaming, stock locking, and electroshock “therapy” until you get your mind right.
As an aside, it is quite acceptable to claim state categorically that non-white male groups have positive (as defined by the left) tendencies, as a group.
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I don’t think that article was about minority groups, or white vs non-white. It was about women specifically being the drivers of these trends. The title says it: “Women are disproportionally hurting our country”. Last I saw, women aren’t a minority group, at least numerically.
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They are not a minority technically, but they are a certified VC and will continue to be for at least half of a century.
Does your answer mean that you don’t know a re-education camp for @onenote?
It’s a possibility, but I’d be shocked if you don’t think he needs to be re-educated. Is that the case?
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I would like to understand whether you are trying to say that “all opinions are equally valid and shouldn’t be discouraged” with regards to the ridiculous opinion that OneNote chose to share with the group.
Certainly, given your post history, you don’t think people should avoid voicing opposition to views they disagree with or find repugnant.
So it is okay for Prager (the author) to state that males need to be raised to reject their natural desires to act on physical aggression and predatory sexual behavior? But it isn’t okay for Prager to state that females need to be raised to reject their natural desire to place people’s feelings above all else?
Why?
Obviously women have been the vast majority of the primary school teaching force here since it was established, and Prager is talking about how things are only recently going downhill, so it’s clear to me his point is about how things have changed here, specifically in the last two generations.
However, it should be obvious that at least two generations of parents – especially among the well-educated – did not teach many of their daughters to control their emotions and think rationally.
Your comment about how another country with a majority woman teaching force over the same time period hasn’t gone woke may actually help prove his point.
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What specifically is ridiculous about it?
Do you think that (generally speaking) females aren’t more emotionally driven than males? Assuming you don’t disagree with basic evolutionary biology and agree that they are…
Do you think that it simply isn’t possible women raised over the past two generations that currently populate primary school education, and increasingly populate liberal arts academia, the mental health profession, and the medical profession have leaned more into the emotional side of some policies, giving more credence to the feelings of their students and patients when it comes to questions of identity?
Is it the best explanation for the rapid changes we have seen in our society? I don’t know.
Is it an explanation worth considering? I don’t see why it shouldn’t be considered.
I have a hard time finding anything particularly anti-woman in the article. How is specifically anti-woman to say that educated women today that become teachers, compared to women several decades ago, follow their emotions more when it comes to how they should educate students and craft policies?
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How is specifically anti-woman to say that educated women today that become teachers, compared to women several decades ago, follow their emotions more when it comes to how they should educate students and craft policies?
It isn’t a fact-based statement, and is based on a reductionist opinion about how people, of either sex, operate.
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I do not think there’s anything fundamentally wrong with that opinion. In the venues run by the radical women that the article is referring to I would be canceled for my opinion. It looks like you are trying to pull the same thing here but fortunately you do not control this website.
Edit. But I do think I look pretty good in a turban and a beard.
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I mean, it is an opinion article. So yeah, that is his opinion based on the facts on the ground we can all agree on (women run primary school education, women now have a larger foothold in liberal arts academia, mental health, medical schools, hospitals, and medical clinics - and there has been significant deference given by those industries to students’/patients’ claims about the importance of their “identities”). How easily can that opinion he has come up with that explains those facts be proven? I don’t know, but that’s not the point. It’s an opinion about how those facts came about. Are those facts hard for you to swallow, and that is why the opinion is especially jarring?
To a certain extent, that’s every single opinion article on anything related to sex generalities. Men and women overlap more than they are different. We can all agree on the extremes (no one argues that there should be an equal distribution of men and women in prison and men and women teaching kindergarten), but can’t we also agree there are more subtle differences we can explore without immediately jumping to the conclusion that someone is misogynist for pointing one of those differences out?
You can call something reductionist, but that, in and of itself, doesn’t make it automatically “anti” the thing it is reducing. If you were one of the people that thought James Damore’s google memo was anti-woman, then of course this 1,000 word article is also anti-woman. But if you don’t think James Damore was being anti-woman, then maybe you should take a step back on this one and see specifically what it is that Prager is really saying instead of letting the clickbaity headline make up your mind for you.
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then maybe you should take a step back on this one and see specifically what it is that Prager is really saying instead of letting the clickbaity headline make up your mind for you.
Having read the article, I just see a bunch of dogmatic assertions about what he thinks is going on that aren’t really supported by any evidence, which is exactly what I’d expect from Prager.
It makes me sad for the state of critical thinking that anyone would read this article and see it as providing meaningful support for an argument.
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…and I’ve said the same about countless liberal articles as well.
But will you say it about the useless opinion piece currently under discussion? 
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I didnt read it, since the heading was obvious “hot take” clickbait. And the quoted portions seemed to only reinforce the gender stereotypes that the social justice warriors should be working to tear down (instead of their insane attack on the basic facts of biology).
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It’s the first time I’ve heard the argument. I don’t think it provides meaningful support. I think it points out a possible explanation for one of the several reason we are where we are. I’d have to see more to know whether or not it is actually the case.
Do you think James Damore’s memo was anti-woman?
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