Another interesting
read. At times even
made me laugh out
loud. It's a book that
should be common
sense, but it's
written to respond to
the current thinking
in the more radical
feminist circles and
we should know better
than to expect common
sense from them.
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One of the most
important books
published this year is
Taking Sex
Differences Seriously
by Steven Rhoads of
the University of
Virginia. Rhoads
summarizes the
research on the
differences between
men and women
documented in the
serious social science
research of the past
30 or so years. The
book is written for
the intelligent
layman, and is not dry
or academic. The
sheer, unapologetic
political
incorrectness of
virtually every page
of the book combined
with its anchor in the
research makes the
book an intellectually
thrilling experience.
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One of the most
destructive ideas to
emerge from the 1960’s
is the idiotic belief
that all differences
between men and women
are
socially constructed.
But as Professor
Farnsworth would say,
“Good news everyone!”
It turns out that
every stereotype we’ve
heard about men and
women is
true. Most of them
stem from disparities
in
sex hormones. You
can read all about it
in the wonderful new
book, Taking Sex Differences
Seriously.
It may all seem like a
moot point; after all,
the Clinton years
ended the era when
intelligent people
took feminism
seriously. Its
intellectual demise
hasn’t eroded
feminism’s
institutional strength
yet, alas. Even today,
on campus it’s more
heretical to
tolerate sex
differences than
to deny Christ. Things
are improving though.
Thirty years ago,
sociologist Steve
Goldberg was rejected
by 69 publishers (a
world record then!)
before he could
publish
The Inevitability of
Patriarchy, which
proved the impact of
sex hormones on
society. Today,
newsweeklies can
publish articles on
the differences
between men and women
with only cursory
bowing and scraping
before feminist
dogmas. I hope that
one day that
discussions of race
differences can
undergo the same
intellectual
liberation.
Ok, now it’s time for
the smartass question
of the day: if it’s
true that women make
75 cents for every
dollar a man makes,
why does anyone hire
men at all? If I were
an eeeevil
businessowner, I’d
fire all the men and
replace them with
women so I could save
25% in labor costs. Or
is there something
crucial I’m leaving
out? Anyone? Anyone?
Bueller?
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