Sign up for a free recipe e-book →

Clarissa's Blog

A Little Bit of Humor

Published by

Clarissa

on

If you sincerely believe that

Men are disproportionately represented at the extremes of intelligence (morons and geniuses): above the IQ level of 170, the genius level, there are thirty timesas many men as women. (Again, there are evolutionary reasons for this.)

then try to make it a little less obvious that you fall in the moron category.

I highly recommend the post because its author rolls out a bunch of hilarious platitudes that, in his moronic mind, are supposed to prove that he is superior to women, people of color, non-Christians, and everybody who is not exactly like him. What makes the post valuable is that it demonstrates how bigots justify their hatred of the universe. I know it’s wrong to laugh at somebody so stupid but I’m working on a very difficult project and I need all the humor I can get.

16 responses to “A Little Bit of Humor”

  1. Pen Avatar
    Pen

    I found a few factual errors in his writing, too. It makes me sad that there are people who actually think the things he writes in that post are true.

    Like

    Reply
    1. Pen Avatar
      Pen

      Also errors by omission. For example, sure, ninety-five percent of men didn’t have the vote 150 years ago (that still seems exaggerated). But absolutely no women–at least in the United States–were able to vote, either. How is that sexist in the way he means?

      Like

      Reply
      1. bloggerclarissa Avatar
        bloggerclarissa

        Exactly. He cherry-picks his bits of trivia and then tries to manipulate them to serve his unhealthy ideological needs.

        Sure enough women wrote most of the novels in XIXth century England. So how come so few of them ended up in the canon, compared to how many men did? Oh, right, it must be because their low IQs prevented them from making all those novels be any good.

        Like

        Reply
      2. Pen Avatar
        Pen

        Sure, the Western population appears to score higher on IQ tests than the rest of the world. Culture bias–or even intelligence type bias–in the tests? Impossible!

        Like

        Reply
  2. FD Avatar
    FD

    Don’t have time right now to go read properly, but let me guess: dude is still under the impression that The Bell Curve was valid science and maths?

    Like

    Reply
    1. bloggerclarissa Avatar
      bloggerclarissa

      The belief in some sort of an innate “intelligence” that people are born with and that can be measured with some idiotic test is a purely American insanity that I don’t subscribe to.

      Like

      Reply
  3. Miriam Avatar
    Miriam

    HOW do you find these things?

    Like

    Reply
    1. bloggerclarissa Avatar
      bloggerclarissa

      I have 600+ websites in my blogroll. I added quite a few annoying folks to add some spice to my intellectual life. I find that anger fuels my research. 🙂 🙂

      Like

      Reply
      1. Miriam Avatar
        Miriam

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F._Vallicella

        This guy taught in my hometown for a while. I could’ve walked right past him and not even known.

        Like

        Reply
        1. bloggerclarissa Avatar
          bloggerclarissa

          This is what passes for philosophy nowadays. Oy vey.

          Like

          Reply
  4. NancyP Avatar
    NancyP

    Women have better things to do with their time than to take IQ tests. Mandatory IQ tests are the only useful measurement and is properly used only to determine likelihood of school success in the Western model of schooling (which involves a lot of multiple choice question tests).
    If he gets his “30 times” number from the Mensa membership, he ought to reflect that most people spend leisure time on specific topics/hobbies. Given the choice of going to a Mensa meeting and going to a nature photography meeting, the nature photography meeting will win every time (my own example). When I was a kid, I was good at chess, but hell would freeze over before I would give up my time bird-watching, bug-classifying, track-searching, and other outdoor “nature” activity for chess. So what motivation do I have to join Mensa?

    Like

    Reply
    1. bloggerclarissa Avatar
      bloggerclarissa

      “Women have better things to do with their time than to take IQ tests. ”

      – Exactly.

      “Mandatory IQ tests are the only useful measurement and is properly used only to determine likelihood of school success in the Western model of schooling (which involves a lot of multiple choice question tests).”

      – I agree completely. As a professional educator, I know for a fact that there are very different types of intelligence and they cannot be measured with one uniform test.

      “Given the choice of going to a Mensa meeting and going to a nature photography meeting, the nature photography meeting will win every time (my own example). ”

      – Same here. I don’t need to reinforce my self-esteem by sitting in the same room with a bunch of people brought together by scoring a certain number of points on some stupid test. I’d rather read a book. Or blog.

      Like

      Reply
  5. musteryou Avatar
    musteryou

    The really funny thing is, people who think like this doom themselves to having social difficulties their whole lives, for reasons they don’t know. How are you even going to speak to a person of the opposite sex, if you assume that her IQ is likely to be so much lower than yours? Even if there were available statistics proving the fact, and these statistics happened to be correct, there is a difference between fact and metaphysics, which this chump surely overlooks. I say that from experience, since most sexist males who talk about “facts” usually mean unalterable essential differences based on gender, which are not even verifiable in terms of the male idiot’s own experiences. That means metaphysics.

    So likely this is yet another moron believing in metaphysics, in a way that will surely make his social life awkward.

    Like

    Reply
    1. bloggerclarissa Avatar
      bloggerclarissa

      GOOD point! I have no doubt whatsoever that the poor jerk can’t get laid for love or money. I mean, nobody is as desperate as putting up with him for five seconds.

      Like

      Reply
      1. musteryou Avatar
        musteryou

        He may find someone who is Christian and confused who will put up with him for a few minutes, but that is due to the webs woven by cowardly Christian priests, and not because the guy is innately smart like he thinks he is:

        http://unsanesafe.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/the-illogical-nature-of-patriarchal.html

        Like

        Reply
        1. bloggerclarissa Avatar
          bloggerclarissa

          I’m sure she has made him hire a beautiful brawny gardener. 🙂

          Like

          Reply

Leave a comment

A conservative literary critic and college professor

Recent posts