Two pieces of anti-male rhetoric to discuss.
The first, from Jezebel:
While research suggests that women will, on average, still outlive men by four years (the average is 66.1 to 81.6 years for men and 73.5 to 86 years for women), the most recent study done by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, a health research center at the University of Washington, says that the American female’s lifespan is improving at a slower rate than men’s for a number of reasons…
From this, they extrapolate the headline “Soon We Might Have Shorter Life Expectancies Than Our Fat Sitcom Husbands.” So we shouldn’t be concerned with the four year gap between men and women’s life expectancy, but we should be concerned that it is decreasing ever so slightly. This is most likely due to decreasing marginal utility of health – men have more room for improvement than women who already receive lots of health care through their lives. But feminists and the women>men set want MOAR!
And the Secret Service scandal brought out a couple of Congressional trolls. The Politico reports:
“I can’t help but wonder if there’d been more women as part of that detail if this ever would’ve happened,” Collins said.
Maloney agreed, noting the Secret Service is only 11 percent female.
“I cant help but keep asking this question: Where are the women,” she said. “We probably need to diversify the Secret Service and have more minorities and more women”.
Where did the call for minorities come from? That’s rhetorical pork barrel. The obvious here: an increase in female Secret Service members equals a decrease in Presidential protection. The truth is, if you want the specific and essential abilities of men as protectors, sometimes you must deal with their duality. Take the good with the bad, in other words.
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Diversify? How about just get the best for the job. Statistically that means a male and more likely a black or white man.
I don’t know that I mean “statistically” but perhaps more stereotypically.
A Columbian hooker costs about $300 per night. A female secret service agent would cost at least $80,000 a year to provide the same service. It’s a no brainer.
female body guards, great idea.
I don’t mind women in most professions. For some reason, it just annoys me to have to deal with them as police officers, security guards, military personnel, etc. There are just some jobs where I’d rather have a man.
Didn’t Khaddafi have female body guards? It sure worked for him.
@Lara:
Assuming a 5 day workweek with 52 nights a year you can get a Columbian hooker for an entire year at about $78,000. Coincidence?
Though frankly I think $300 a night is pretty high for a Columbian hooker, maybe for the high class ones.
According to the same data (available here), life expectancy also is improving at a faster rate for black men and women than it is for their white counterparts. I wonder what inflammatory title Anna might come up with for an article about that.
I also wonder if the increasing ‘white Hispanic’ population since 1989 has contributed to the apparent increase in white lifespans. Despite their lower socioeconomic status, Hispanics are more robust in the face of disease and live longer (Indians do, too); this study doesn’t include them as a separate category, so they may be a confounder.
“We probably need to diversify the Secret Service and have more minorities and more women”.
In point of fact, we don’t know that the agents who caused the scandal were all white. We know the supervisor is white, but that’s all. Thus, there could ALREADY be diversity — and the fact that we haven’t seen any pictures of the agents leads me to suspect that there is diversity already.
an increase in female Secret Service members equals a decrease in Presidential protection.
Increased diversity also equals decreased competence equals decreased protection.
That’s just what we need. Male Secret Service agents distracted by banging the female agents whom inevitably get knocked up and get paid maternity leave. thus increasing the budget of the Secret Service while providing less utility than a male agent.
Maybe if you explain that to the agents in training they won’t forget to pay the hookers.
Like they say: “I am a woman hear me MOAR!”
If the current Great and Powerful Leader is re-elected, I fully support an increase of women and minorities in the secret service
“We probably need to diversify the Secret Service and have more minorities and more women”.
Fuck YOU.
Don’t get angry. Look at what happened to Kadaffy Duck. He had lots of female guards, but he ended up non-operational.
After it gets taken over by women like every other government agency they can rename it to the Secret Cervix.
And how long did it take to finally reach gkquadaffi, who faced attack from NATO and from CIA-supported “insurgents”? His guards held up OK. That said, I fully support the current Pootus having the most femalist, most rainbowest protective service ever. N shit.
After it gets taken over by women like every other government agency they can rename it to the Secret Cervix.
I imagine that POTUS (Penis of the United States) will have fun finding the Secret Cervix.
Arguably, the feminists are correct in thinking that mean male lifespan may end up becoming longer than female lifespan. The reasons why men are catching up is linked to things like increased smoking, drinking, and stress among women. Largely, as women adopt male behaviours and work patterns, their death rates will increase. But, the crunch is that men are probably better adapted (biologically) to their lifestyles than women are. By forcing women to become quasi-men, its feminism itself which is likely to harm women.
Reym,
I was being a little flip, but it’s true. A young, female secret service agent would likely be sleeping with another one. Maybe they would get married, but it doesn’t matter. These guys can find wives elsewhere. There are plenty of professions that are suited to female strengths and pay well. I don’t see any reason to have female secret service agents. Being physically protective of a grown man, is not in a female’s nature. It is completely unnatural to us.
A female secret service agent might actually duck behind the president if someone started shooting.
A: A qualified female can do the job, I have no doubt.
B: There would be some problems caused/possible by adding more female agents. Whether they’d be sufficient to say ‘Don’t do this’, I don’t know.
C: When politicians start saying crap like this, it means they’ll push for more female agents in groups like Exec. Protection whether they’re fully qualified or not, in the name of ‘equity’, etc. Which means the protection levels go down.