Short diary for purposes of calling attention to idiocy...
Remember that brilliant commentary by Charlotte Allen that was published on the National Review the other day? You know, the "huskier 12-year old boys" one? The universal acclaim she received the first time around has apparently compelled Ms. Allen to respond. Maybe she should've quit while she was ahead:
No, I was not blaming any of the 26 victims or the parents who enrolled their kids at Sandy Hook. I am, however, blaming our culture that denies, dismisses, and denigrates the masculine traits—including size, strength, male aggression and a male facility for strategic thinking–that until recently have been viewed as essential for building a society and protecting its weaker members. We now have Hanna Rosin at Slate urging parents to buy their little boys Easy Bake ovens so they’ll be more like little girls. Women are less aggressive by instinct, and they are typically trained to be nice.
I don't need to be one to figure out that with women like Ms. Allen as members of your gender, women, who needs enemies? Seriously, in what century was this woman born?
And even though she was wrong, she was actually right:
I am also responding to David Weigel, who told me I gotten my facts wrong: that there are actually two men, a custodian and a fourth-grade teacher, on Sandy Hook’s 52-person staff. He’s right, and I stand corrected. This does help prove my point, though: just two adult men in a building containing 500 people —and it’s not clear that both of them were at work that day. Indeed, a visit to Sandy Hook’s staff website is a depressing experience, the sea of women’s names. Why aren’t there more men? Perhaps not enough want the job? But why? Because they are tacitly discouraged from careers in elementary education? It’s certainly not the money, because union rules typically require kindergarten teachers and high-school chemistry teachers to be paid on exactly the same salary scale.
When you're an idiot, you might as well be the
best idiot you can be.
The world breathlessly awaits Ms. Allen's next contribution to the Sandy Hook armchair investigation effort.
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via thinkprogress