Feminists Wept

Charles Murray via Vox Popoli:

Within a decade, no one will try to defend the equality premise. All sorts of groups will be known to differ in qualities that affect what professions they choose, how much money they make, and how they live their lives in all sorts of ways. Gender differences will be first, because the growth in knowledge about the ways that men and women are different is growing by far the most rapidly. I'm betting that the Harvard faculty of the year 2020 will look back on the Larry Summers affair in the same way that they think about the Scopes trial--the enlightened versus the benighted--and will have achieved complete amnesia about their own formerly benighted opinions.

That makes it clear: Science is just a tool of patriarchal oppression.

Down with science!

Comments

[Mike T]

It's only a matter of time before science is declared to be a tool of patriarchal oppression...

[Laura(southernxyl)]

It is an interesting article.

Used to have a preacher who said that people need three things to be happy: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Not too dissimilar to what Murray says in this article.

I dislike what Murray says about groups, though. "All sorts of groups will be known to differ in qualities that affect what professions they choose, how much money they make, and how they live their lives in all sorts of ways." It reminds me too much of the old south, where black people supposedly knew their place and were content in it. Individual qualities transcend the qualities of groups, in my opinion. There are/have been, for instance, women who excel in mathematics. Emmy Noether comes to mind. There aren't as many women as men, but they do exist. I'd hate to think that a math-excelling girl would be held back b/c girls aren't supposed to do well in math - that's so 1950's.

I suppose the group thing would be useful in ferreting out discrimination. For instance, if it's known that X percent of women excel in math compared to 100-X percent of men, but the women in a particular university math program only comprise 0.1X percent of the student population, that might trigger some questions as to whether women were being systematically kept out. Better than assuming that everything should be 50/50, and better than assuming that women need to find happiness in baking cookies, or black people in picking cotton, or whatever.