Michelle Obama: ‘Women are smarter than men’

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[chessplayer]

“We can’t waste the spotlight. Time is short. Change is needed. And women are smarter than men,” Obama said during the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit to a laughing audience, according to White House Press Pool reports.

She continued, “And the men can’t complain because they are outnumbered today.”

[2ndDivisionVet]

"Of course, women weren’t often in a position to make those discoveries."

While that was true in 1914 or 1814, is it really still so in 2014? There are more females in college here than males and the pay gap can be explained by maternity. GM's CEO is a woman.

[DB]

She meant women are smarter than her man.

[lee martell]

The Obamas are incredible at cooking stuff up to anger and divide the country. They even top the Clintons as rabblerousers and schlockmeisters.

[blueplum]

oh, and of course, Florence Nightingale, for inventing triage and infection control of battle-wounded, hospice care policies, as well as setting the foundation for charting/medical records, nutrition, and foundational epidemiology policy.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Félix Millet showed a 5-cylinder rotary engine built into a bicycle wheel at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1889. Millet had patented the engine in 1888, so must be considered the pioneer of the internal combustion rotary engine. A machine powered by his engine took part in the Paris-Bordeaux-Paris race of 1895 and the system was put into production by Darracq in 1900.[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_engine The primacy of discovery of the effect of directing the exhaust steam up the chimney as a means of providing draft through the fire is the matter of some controversy, Ahrons (1927) devoting significant attention to this matter. The exhaust from the cylinders on the first steam locomotive – built by Richard Trevithick – was directed up the chimney, and he noted its effect on increasing the draft through the fire at the time. At Wylam, Timothy Hackworth also employed a blastpipe on his earliest locomotives, but it is not clear whether this was an independent discovery or a copy of Trevithick's design. Shortly after Hackworth, George Stephenson also employed the same method, and again it is not clear whether that was an independent discovery or a copy of one of the other engineers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blastpipe The US Patent for an ‘Exhaust muffler for engines’ was awarded to Milton O. Reeves and Marshall T. Reeves of Columbus, Indiana of the Reeves Pulley Company on 11 May 1897. US Patent Office application № 582485 states that they “have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Exhaust-Mufflers for engines”.[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muffler

[basil]

I can think of one woman who’s dumber than a rock. Her initials are MO.

[polymuser]

Women are smarter than liberal girliemen, maybe.

I’m sure she also thinks progressives are smarter than conservatives, city folk are smarter than country bumpkins, and the big butted are smarter than the small butted.

[knarf]

Hers was not so much an achievement than an attribute

Not Linda?

Sorry ... carry on

[informavoracious]

It is true that women are smarter than men. Barack IS smarter than Michelle.

[blueplum]

ok, I’ll concede monsterfact (and about.com) should change ‘rotary engine’ to ‘rotary engine components/improvements’ “from 1902 to 1915” but - Margaret Knight did hold patents, it seems, so wiki should at least mention her.

http://theinvisiblementor.com/profile-of-margaret-knight-inventor-also-known-as-%e2%80%9clady-einstein%e2%80%9d/

[Bigg Red]

+1

[Bigg Red]

Another point I have to watch is to make sure my young son understands the “men are idiots and losers” concepts on TV, movies, etc...is not true.

(((
Thank you. I have been incensed about that for years, and I am a woman.

[Bigg Red]

Gross and inappropriate.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

If Democrat men have a shred of self respect and backbone left, then they will boycott the Democrat party until she apologizes for that comment.

[blueplum]

Trevithick used a simple piece of pipe to vent steam on his machine.

Mary Walton’s patent had to do with reinventing that simple pipe piece to a more complex system whereby exhaust was channeled into a water pre-filter instead of directly to the atmosphere. Patented in 1879, this system was first used in factories and later adapted to locomotive engine use. It is fair to say she did invent a locomotive smokestack and she should be given credit for it.

http://123articles.com/mary-walton.html

from the following, there were many designs of locomotive smokestacks as engineers worked out draft problems:

“[that] the internal dimensions of the chimney were critical, as well as its positioning relative to the blastpipe...was not widely understood until well into the 20th century.

http://en.potiori.com/Chimney_(locomotive).html

[ExCTCitizen]

ExCTCitizen: “Michelle might be smarter than Barack, but that is not saying much.”

[octex]

Please name one invention, technology or successful major program promulgated by a female. I’ll wait.
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First one that comes to mind was twice a Nobel Prize winner. It was Madame Marie Curie, who discovered radium and polonium, and did further research on radioactivity.

[2ndDivisionVet]

With her husband.

[Ann Archy]

Smarter than YOUR “man” Mooch.....for SURE!!!!

[blueplum]

mufflers, July 31, 1919, El Dorado Jones

filed patent:

“My invention includes a device in which the fan carrying frame is readily removable from the casing for examination, repair or replacement of the parts. My invention also includes a yielding outlet cap for relieving the interior of the muffler from internal pressure.”

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/1473235.pdf

Jones’ muffler design was later adapted to airplanes, so it is fair to say that Jones did invent a muffler, and so deserves credit for doing so (even if she was a really strange bird that only hired women over 40).