I thought that the use of the “most people believe” trick has been ridiculed so much and so often that nobody would dare use it any more. That isn’t true, however. A bizarre creature called Marty Nemko has published a very stupid piece in the Atlantic Monthly that contains the following pearl of wisdom:
Most people will also agree that, on average, women are more eager to have children and to be deeply involving in their upbringing.
Nemko apparently has no idea how idiotic he sounds. It’s sad that these “most people” Nemko claims to be familiar with haven’t cared to inform him that using one’s own unhealthy fantasies about “most people” as an argument makes him a laughing stock. I also wonder what it means “to be deeply involving in upbringing” and how the “average” Nemko blabbers about has been calculated.
This unintelligent person and a lousy writer has apparently made himself famous by bashing higher education. He has been harping on how “higher education is overrated” for decades. It’s funny how the grievously illiterate are always the ones to deny the value of education.
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One of my all-time favorite authors, Tamora Pierce (she writes young-adult fantasy, Clarissa, so I doubt you would like her stuff the way I do), wrote a quote that has stuck with me for the past 10 years since I read it, and really, truly applies here…
“Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much–all of it wrong.” (Said by the character Daine in the book “Emperor Mage”)
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““Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much–all of it wrong.””
– Brilliant! And true.
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Right? 🙂 She also has a good one about politics…
“Politics. It means you sit down to dinner with enemies and ask how their children are.”
Mind, she’s self-described her writing as “I write fantasy where girls kick butt!”
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“Most people will also agree that, on average, women are more eager to have children and to be deeply involving in their upbringing.”
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I WANT TO STAB HIM IN THE FACE.
Also, shouldn’t that be “deeply involved“? How do you words, Marty.
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Also “why is the US economy biased against men” — OMG LOLLOL.
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“Also “why is the US economy biased against men” ”
– Yes, exactly. I want to laugh, too, but it’s too annoying. This guy must have a different Forbes list form the one the rest of us have access to.
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Statistically women do more child care than men and more housework.
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On this blog, we have discussed at length why that happens. Men somehow being less interested in having children is not the reason.
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