Comments on: Someone should send poor Charlotte information on gender re-assignment if being a woman sucks so bad

By: gnaddrig

gnaddrig — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:53:06 +0000

In other words, women are so dim that they not only forget where they belong (children, chores, church). No, they have to go and devalue the most important things that can be done by not doing them the way they should be done (no doubt with a joyful, humble heart) and trying to get above their station. And then they don’t even have the decency to relax and laugh when one of the rare female geniuses pokes fun at them for bein so dim. Typical.

We must thank Ms. Allen for this brilliant explanation of what is wrong with more than half the human race.

By: schrödinger's cat

schrödinger's cat — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:57:45 +0000

The WP has since published this:

Washington: Do you believe caring for children, men and the weak is something that should be valued less in society? I ask because you seem to imply that they are tasks only fit for the dim [...].

Charlotte Allen: Quite the opposite: I think that caring for children, men, and the weak are the most important things that can be done. It’s women who have devalued them by mocking stay-at-home mothers, etc.

You don’t say.

By: MHaywire

MHaywire — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:44:16 +0000

Of course, why didn’t I think of that to begin with? That obviously explains the little maxing-out-dad’s-credit-card issue as well.

By: gnaddrig

gnaddrig — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:37:24 +0000

That is because - as a woman - she probably can’t count beyond three or four…

By: MHaywire

MHaywire — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:31:53 +0000

Also, if Charlotte Adam “coasted through life and academia on the basis of an excellent memory” – how on earth come she can’t remember how many pairs of shoes she own?

By: MHaywire

MHaywire — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:26:32 +0000

“and revel in the things most important to life at which nearly all of us excel: tenderness toward children and men and the weak and the ability to make a house a home.”

I’d say she’s got that one down to a peg - not much tenderness towards women in her diatribe. I suppose she means children of the male variety, though, not those pathetic, shrieking, swooning female versions with the mushy brains and inability to drive.

Someone ought to tell the good Charlotte Adam that it’s not only poor form, but also woefully inaccurate, to project one’s own inadequacies onto others.

By: Dee

Dee — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:52:39 +0000

I can make a house a home. Personally, I prefer taking out load-bearing walls and sizing the beams to replace them to picking out the color of the sofa.

By: syfr

syfr — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:12:02 +0000

Because cavemen had discovered the calculus of trajectories, and the applications of Newton’s Laws of Motion….

By: Kyso Kisaen

Kyso Kisaen — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:50:45 +0000

I mean, isn’t that what rearranging furniture is all about?

Dunno, when I want the furniture re-arranged, I just wait 4 to 6 weeks for my ex-fiance to go on another one of those cleaning-and-rearranging binges he uses to procrastinate when big papers are due. He insists he can’t study if the house is a mess, making me hopeful that we’ll be able to keep living together when he’s in graduate school.

By: Amanda Marcotte

Amanda Marcotte — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:41:21 +0000

I don’t excel at tenderness towards children, my tenderness towards men is contigent on how tender they are to me, and wouldn’t interior decorating skills go better with an ability to rotate 3D objects in your head? I mean, isn’t that what rearranging furniture is all about?