It is quite obvious that stuh, Eorl and c.i. have never engaged, properly I mean, with Ovid, Eleusis, Rabelais, Shakespeare, Feilding, Goldsmith, De Laclos, Gibbon, Stendhal, De Quincey, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Proust, Ibsen, Spengler, Rider Haggard, Shaw, Joyce, Larkin, Amis Snr, Harris, Henry Miller, Mailer, Dylan, Benny Hill, Anthony Burgess, The Carry On series, Dick van Dyke, VIZ and ZIT, etc. etc. etc. (I could fill the page).
Had they gone to the trouble of journeying adventurously in some of these exotic locations with an open mind instead of lapping up the media's self-serving versions of the relationship between the sexes they would have understood, or at least pondered before the blind rush to judgement, my remark-
Quote:You are defining "stupid" your way. Thus you define "intelligence" your way. i.e. as a compliment to yourself and your way of looking at things. You are a double-dyed-in-the-wool Male Chauvinist Pig of the very worst type.
which Adam Smith agrees with along with many other notables of our culture. Indeed our very language is suffused from top to bottom with the same general position as are all other languages.
The idea that "stupid" women, using my notation, are religious and obedient is laughable. They have the destiny of the human race in their charge. Spengler said that they are destiny.
In point of fact Mr Ted Hughes, who was Poet Laureate, took over 500 pages of closely argued and researched text to make the same point in Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being which, though only published in 1992, sells second hand on ebay for 4 times the original price.
I wrote earlier-
Quote:Steer clear of can-can girls is my advice. Thinking that your "intelligence" is a match for "stupidity" of that order is quite dangerous.
and it is obvious from the comments I am addressing that these dangers, which many a scandal has highlighted, have been avoided by definitions of the female nature conducive to the comforts of the male intelligence and can thus be categorised as male chauvinist piggery of the most corrosive type in which that nature has been shoe-horned to fit the male boot and to not disturb his comforts or equanimity.
The result is what you see around you.
A lady on another forum wallows in her self admitted "stupidity" and has a bunch of male threaders eating out of her hand. Metaphorically I mean. Miss Monroe built her career on a portrayal of extreme "stupidity".
Let us not clutter up a science thread with the Agony Aunt versions of "intelligence". Agony Aunts are notorious for using their victims to stress their own "intelligence". Science concerns itself with the facts rather than some superficial judgements based on reading a few newspapers and magazines and which are tailored to suit their readers.
As Bob Dylan sang in the unpublished Jet Pilot- "She ain't a woman, she's a man."
The cutting edge comedy on British TV these days is coming from exactly the same place.
"All the nice girls love a sailor". "Nice" notice.
And evolutionary theory is perfectly in tune. It has no room for tweeti