Women, wake up, men have made your life better, not worse

FoxNews ^ | December 31, 2013 | Suzanne Venker

[Carry_Okie]

Interesting that I don’t see the sailboat on that list.

[SkyDancer]

Got that, thanks - was just thinking of the original invention/discovery.

[SkyDancer]

Thribbit! :)

[Boogieman]

A list that tries to credit chocolate chip cookies as an “invention” seems a little suspect.

[hellinahandcart]

Iron my shirt.

HHC’s husband.

[Boogieman]

I think we had soap long before we had chemists.

[imardmd1]

Chaos? Without lawyers? /s

[SkyDancer]

Well you just don’t discover or design chocolate cookies. You have to invent them.

[imardmd1]

I think we had soap long before we had chemists.

Whoever made soap became a chemist --

[DFG]

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

[Beagle8U]

It was invented by women that were anything but feminine, Bull Dykes mostly.

[Carry_Okie]

Chaos? Without lawyers? /s

Lol, given that choice and I'll take chaos every time.

[Boogieman]

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”!

[Tailback]

That one is more arguable. It's more important in cities than suburban or rural areas. I am more a fan of composting, presorted recycling, and more sophisticated packaging (which did a LOT to reduce food spoilage). In general, I like the idea of vehicles carrying goods both to and from the point of use.

As an example, our family of four rarely fills a 20 gallon garbage can, but I do take out a truckload of steel and other recyclables perhaps once a year. We don't go to great lengths, but do try to do the simple things. I treat disassembly as an engineering problem, looking at how things are made with respect to the product lifecycle. There is a lot of room for improvement, particularly as regards material selection. My guess is that if we really confronted these problems, we'd use a great many more farmed or compostable materials.

I'm with you there. We compost most organics and yard waste/recycling pickup is included with our garbage service. Rarely is our garbage can full, but when it is it's usually because of packing materials. There's a lot of improvement that could be made there.

[SkyDancer]

And the age-old war between the sexes continues.

[momtothree]

“... 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!)

[CincyRichieRich]

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.

[miss marmelstein]

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.

[tomkat]

.. than a  busload  planet full of feminists could ever hope to do.

[Rockpile]

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.