Posted on 01/05/2014 7:31:42 AM PST by stevie_d_64
Theres a reason the text version of Camille Paglias opening statement at the Munk Debate, Resolved: Men Are Obsolete garnered 10K likes on Facebook and received more than one thousand comments at Time.com: it hit a nerve.
It was a nerve that needed to be hit, and Paglia did it beautifully.
Not only was her choice of words fitting, she delivered them with the perfect amount of exasperation.
America must revisit its distorted view of gender equality, implored Paglia, and start being fair to the other half of the human race.
Mens success in fields such as medicine, engineering and technology have done more to liberate women from the constraints of their former lives than a busload of feminists could ever hope to do.
Its time to stop pretending men are oppressors and to start recognizing the extraordinary contributions men have made to society.
Paglia says, History must be seen clearly and fairly: obstructive traditions arose not from mens hatred or enslavement of women but from the natural division of labor that had developed over thousands of years during the agrarian period and that once immensely benefited and protected women, permitting them to remain at the hearth to care for helpless infants and children. Over the past century, it was laborsaving appliances, invented by men and spread by capitalism, that liberated women from daily drudgery.
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Interesting that I don’t see the sailboat on that list.
Got that, thanks - was just thinking of the original invention/discovery.
Thribbit! :)
A list that tries to credit chocolate chip cookies as an “invention” seems a little suspect.
Iron my shirt.
HHC’s husband.
I think we had soap long before we had chemists.
Chaos? Without lawyers? /s
Well you just don’t discover or design chocolate cookies. You have to invent them.
Whoever made soap became a chemist --
Stephanie Kwolek - Research chemist at DuPont.
One of the first women research chemists, she first gained national recognition in 1960 for her work with long molecule chains at low temperatures. In 1971, Kwolek’s further analysis culminated in an important discovery of a liquid crystalline polymer solution. Its exceptional strength and stiffness led to the invention of Kevlar®, a synthetic material that is five times as strong as steel.
http://women-inventors.com/Stephanie-Kwolek.asp
It was invented by women that were anything but feminine, Bull Dykes mostly.
Lol, given that choice and I'll take chaos every time.
Really? You think someone making a new recipe for cookies belongs on the same list as technological and medical innovators?
I used to put ketchup on my salami sandwiches when I was a kid. I’ve never seen anyone else do that, so I guess I “invented” the ketchup-salami sandwich, and shall start referring to myself as an “inventor”!
And the age-old war between the sexes continues.
“... I’m going to hell for this, aren’t I?”
No.. just a few nights of sleep on an uncomfortable couch and then all is forgiven (LOL!)
Most fires extinguished which took a life...
Most mines which provided ores for liberal women to live in their city condo high rises...and lives were lost in those mines or smelting plants...
Railway deaths when installing track...including Chinese and black slaves...
I could go on, but the men who did these things lost some of their lives...
Yes, women have died in childbirth...
However, men have done most of the dangerous jobs and paid the full price way more than women.
When calculating pay differential, the liberal “statistics crunchers” always leave this fact out.
My favorite take away from this story is how utterly Maureen Dowd got buried under Paglia’s crisp words. Almost no reportage on Dowd’s contribution to this debate. But then snark only lasts for a day or so before being wrapped up in newspaper and dumped in the garbage. Dowd is turning into the Rodney Dangerfield of the NYTimes.
Random comments:
Palm oil soap from Spain has been around since at least the 1200s and likely back to the Roman Empire or before.
The great Scottish chemist and mountaineer J Norman Collie took the first
( unplanned) medical x-ray.
Washing machines were around long before the 1940s.
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