"OhSojourner" <ohsojourner at aol.com> wrote in message
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> >I don't buy it. I've seen too much phony Feminist history already.
> >We're told women couldn't own property, false, we're told women
> >couldn't vote in the USA before 1920 (try 1869), we're told a lot of
> >untrue things.
> >
> >It's clear to me the real sexist zeitgeist is pushing in the opposite
> >direction. That impression is underlined when I see Grace Hopper's
> >and Marie Curie's workaday contributions exaggerated to the point of
> >being called world-class achievements. It is confirmed by the
> quality
> >of OhSojourner's list. Clearly many people want very badly to see
> >women as more accomplished than they actually are.
>> ...and what was wrong about the "quality" of my list? It was
> certainly a better "list" than the one John Knight provided -- (Jane
> Fonda), implying that there were NO "accomplished" women. His
> question was to name some "accomplished" women, so I answered the
> question. They may not have been celebrities, but they did make
> important contributions. And FWIW, those individuals have accomplished
> far more than you or anyone here probably ever will.
>> -Nothing was said or implied in regards to women being "superior".
> And if there are fewer female top achievers, so what? The majority of
> the male population probably wouldn't be capable of accomplishing what
> the top achievers have done either.
>> Nothing was said or implied in regards to the idea of the sexes
> possessing equal mathematical capability.
>> Why is it that the naming of even ONE "accomplished" woman gets some
> of your knickers in a knot? ...And why are you assuming it's for the
> purposes of trying to demonstrate 50-50 equality among the sexes?
>
You did help to illustrate the point of this thread, though, which is that
you really can't name a recent notable woman intellectual (unless you
subscribe to the theory that Betty Friedan is an intellectual).
So if the "gender gap" didn't narrow, as the GRE scores prove, what exactly
did we get for that $8 trillion EXTRA we've spent for "education" in this
country? http://christianparty.net/gre.htm
You wrote:
> They may not have been celebrities, but they did make
> important contributions. And FWIW, those individuals have accomplished
> far more than you or anyone here probably ever will.
I don't even buy that. Their only contribution was a negative one. They
encouraged women to enter fields they could not possibly succeed in,
initiated a worthless gender war, tore our social fabric apart, and doubled
our already high divorce rate.
Just by not being that big a negative influence, ALL of the men on this
forum accomplish far more than they ever did, every day. On top of that,
what you continue to ignore is that 400 men got patents yesterday, and the
day before, and, ..., the majority of which are far more advanced, far more
important to society and technological achievement, and require one heck of
a lot more intelligence, than "inventing" a compiler that she didn't even
get a patent for, half a century ago http://christianparty.net/patents.htm
John Knight
