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Where Were You on 1/14? [Harvard feminism crisis]
Wall Street Journal ^
| 3/29/05
| CHRISTINA HOFF SOMMERS and SALLY SATEL
Posted on 03/29/2005 6:46:48 AM PST by mathprof
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Nancy Hopkins was another speaker. The MIT biologist has become known as the professor who fled the room on 1/14. "I felt I was going to be sick," she famously said. At the Radcliffe confab, Ms. Hopkins again talked about how Mr. Summers affected her physiology: "I had to walk out out of respect for my blood pressure." For this show of courage, the audience gave her a standing ovation. But the room soon quieted down when she told a harrowing tale of hate mail she had received. A Harvard alum had sent her some air sickness bags and urged her to consult a physician. "I would suggest a psychiatrist," he wrote. Audience members gasped at the sheer misogyny of it all..
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posted on
03/29/2005 6:46:49 AM PST
by
mathprof
To: mathprof
Q. Why don't women need a watch?
A. Because there is a clock on the stove!
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posted on
03/29/2005 6:48:49 AM PST
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - They want to die for Islam, and we want to kill them.)
To: mathprof
Perhaps the most troubling presentation was that of Harvard psychologist Elizabeth Spelke. She declared herself a diligent researcher who cared about solid methodology and accurate results. But instead of letting the audience know that the research on sex differences is a vibrant and contentious area of science, she claimed that the thesis of innate difference had been definitively refuted. The evidence against it, she said, "is as conclusive as any case I know in science." The "science" of psychology seems to be based in an awful lot of assumptions that could well be described as "religious". Any honest psychologist would admit how little we really do know of human psychology, making such certitude impossible.
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posted on
03/29/2005 6:50:00 AM PST
by
thoughtomator
(Order "Judges Gone Wild!" Only $19.95 have your credit card handy!)
To: mathprof
The MIT biologist has become known as the professor who fled the room on 1/14.OMG. These women need to get over themselves.
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posted on
03/29/2005 6:50:01 AM PST
by
eyespysomething
(It starts off as a drum circle, next thing you know you've got a college.)
To: mathprof
Do these loons also gather in masses and waste our nation's potential because bra ads only depict women using the product?
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posted on
03/29/2005 6:52:50 AM PST
by
Pookee
To: 2banana; eyespysomething
Can't remember where I was on 1/14, but I know my wife was in the kitchen cookin' my dinner. As I recall she was barefoot. And pregnant.
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posted on
03/29/2005 6:53:02 AM PST
by
SittinYonder
(Tancredo and I wanna know what you believe)
To: eyespysomething
They are simply ignoring the fact that if the brains of men and women were IDENTICAL
then the brains of men and women would respond to IDENTICALLY to testoterone and estrogen.
But they do not. Good thing, too.
They ought look at the role of women in astronomy, too (at Harvard, no less). Doubt they will.
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posted on
03/29/2005 6:53:31 AM PST
by
Diogenesis
(Si vis pacem, para bellum)
To: 2banana
Q: How do you convert a dishwasher into a ditch digger?
A: Give that woman a shovel!
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posted on
03/29/2005 6:54:36 AM PST
by
Rummyfan
To: mathprof
"The MIT biologist has become known as the professor who fled the room on 1/14."
She fled to go make me a chicken pot-pie.
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posted on
03/29/2005 6:56:28 AM PST
by
L98Fiero
To: mathprof
Nancy Hopkins was another speaker. The MIT biologist has become known as the professor who fled the room on 1/14. "I felt I was going to be sick," she famously said. At the Radcliffe confab, Ms. Hopkins again talked about how Mr. Summers affected her physiology: "I had to walk out out of respect for my blood pressure."After a single summer's exhausting study, let sickness strike such a school, and they sink and die most fearfully. Do those who are so strenuous to educate ladies as long and as severely as men must be educated for their sphere, know what mortality awaits so many after they are educated? I wish they would examine this point. "Languid and nervous, easily dispirited, instead of feeling within themselves the freshness and buoyancy of youth, what wonder that they draw back, appalled, from their new responsibilities" at marriage.
Excerpt from Woman's Rights, Rev. John Todd, D.D., 1867.
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posted on
03/29/2005 6:59:20 AM PST
by
Loyalist
(See it. Now: dissonanceanddisrespect.blogspot.com)
To: L98Fiero
"The MIT biologist has become known as the professor who fled the room on 1/14."She fled to go make me a chicken pot-pie.
Hysterical reaction. But is it genetic (XX) or learned?
Inquiring minds want to know.
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posted on
03/29/2005 7:00:33 AM PST
by
Diogenesis
(Si vis pacem, para bellum)
To: Diogenesis
"Hysterical reaction. But is it genetic (XX) or learned? Inquiring minds want to know."
The root hyster- comes from the Greek word for womb. So, the psycholological disturbance termed hysteria was originally believed to be a disease of women and resulted from some disturbance in the uterus.
http://www.wordorigins.org/wordorh.htm
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posted on
03/29/2005 7:04:57 AM PST
by
L98Fiero
To: L98Fiero
Actually there are two Greek words of origin.
hystera which is "womb", hence hysterectomy and hysteropexy.
There is also hysteros meaning behind or later.
hence, hysteranthous and hysterogenic.
BTW, Ms.114's hysteria still could be learned,
or it could be on an autosomal gene,
or it could be a 'bad rap'.
Deconvolving THAT requires science - and these neoacademics might not be up to the challenge. ;-)
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posted on
03/29/2005 7:10:43 AM PST
by
Diogenesis
(Si vis pacem, para bellum)
To: SittinYonder
I know my wife was in the kitchen cookin' my dinnerMore likely than not.
As I recall she was barefoot
Probably.
And pregnant.
Not since 2001.
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posted on
03/29/2005 7:11:31 AM PST
by
eyespysomething
(It starts off as a drum circle, next thing you know you've got a college.)
To: mathprof
1-bttt - "Radcliffe College, once synonymous with the highest standards of women's education, abandoned all pretense to intellectual seriousness."
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posted on
03/29/2005 7:12:29 AM PST
by
XBob
To: eyespysomething
Well, there's so many kids running around our house it seems like you're pregnant constantly. But I know you were cooking and barefoot ... and that's what's important. BTW, what's for dinner tonight?
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posted on
03/29/2005 7:15:46 AM PST
by
SittinYonder
(Tancredo and I wanna know what you believe)
To: mathprof
"If these traumatized conference participants..."
I smell a new psychological disease. TCP. I thought it up first; I'm cashin' in!
First "Sharing Session" is scheduled for 7pm eastern, tonight. Assemble in the cafeteria. Be prepared to hug and be hugged a lot. *Snort*
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posted on
03/29/2005 7:16:41 AM PST
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
To: SittinYonder
Well, there's so many kids running around our house it seems like you're pregnant constantly. Oh, like you would know how that feels?
BTW, what's for dinner tonight?
Whatever you bring home.
;-P
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posted on
03/29/2005 7:17:22 AM PST
by
eyespysomething
(It starts off as a drum circle, next thing you know you've got a college.)
To: thoughtomator
The "science" of psychology seems to be based in an awful lot of assumptions that could well be described as "religious". Any honest psychologist would admit how little we really do know of human psychology, making such certitude impossible.I have a friend, a very religious fellow, that got his bachelor's degree in psychology from Oral Roberts U. He's now studying for his master's at an equally religious school in Oregon. Psychology is one of the few sciences (and I use the term 'science' loosely in this context) that can be studied and administered from the religious perspective.
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posted on
03/29/2005 7:21:49 AM PST
by
randog
(What the....?!)
To: thoughtomator
Nancy Hopkins was another speaker. The MIT biologist has become known as the professor who fled the room on 1/14. "I felt I was going to be sick," she famously said. At the Radcliffe confab, Ms. Hopkins again talked about how Mr. Summers affected her physiology: "I had to walk out out of respect for my blood pressure." For this show of courage, the audience gave her a standing ovation. But the room soon quieted down when she told a harrowing tale of hate mail she had received. A Harvard alum had sent her some air sickness bags and urged her to consult a physician. "I would suggest a psychiatrist," he wrote. Audience members gasped at the sheer misogyny of it all..Hmm well letssee since no men felt like they were goingot be sick after hearing the professor then this pmsing ninny just proved the profs point there are inborn differences between mens brains and womens and the alum was right she desperatly needsa phychiatrist for her own mentalwell being but that doesnt quiet go far enough she also needs these
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posted on
03/29/2005 7:26:47 AM PST
by
freepatriot32
(If you want to change goverment support the libertarian party www.lp.org)
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