1. Think Progress links to a studies which found that men’s Olympic events get greater primetime television coverage than women’s sports. And when women’s sports do get covered in primetime, networks show the sports in which women wear minimal clothing. This is news?
2. Another ObamaCare assumption seems to be on shaky ground. Researchers from the University of Illinois looked at 900 health industry firms to determine the truth behind an ObamaCare claim: that greater primary care health care will result in fewer overall hospital admissions and expenditures. The researchers determined that this was not the case and that primary care was more often used wastefully. This comes after the piece in the New York Times arguing that ObamaCare will exacerbate the physician shortage that exists in this country.
3. As some commenters discovered, Role/Reboot has a piece about a fat advocate who only wears crop tops and mini-skirts.
4. Laurie Essig, the editor of the Chronicle of Higher Education who fired Naomi Schaeffer Riley for criticizing black studies, has a piece making the familiar argument that “mass murderers are white because of white privilege.” The problem with that argument is that the white men who are actually most privileged (someone like Mitt Romney, let’s say) doesn’t commit these kinds of crimes. Her argument is essentially that white privilege is an overlay for all whites and that some handle their privilege differently according to their class. This is a problem of feminist sociologists making these types of assertions on blogs without much in the way of evidence.
5. Theodore Dalrymple on the Olympic opening ceremony.
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#1: it’s time to just cut to the chase when this perennial subject of women’s sports comes up: women are weaker and slower than men, on average. women’s sports are, therefore, a pale facsimile of men’s sports. female athletes are less exciting to watch (except for prurient reasons) and their sports are essentially handicapped versions of the same men’s sports.
so… why the F would a sane person want to watch something crappy when a better alternative exists? feminists are apparently flabbergasted by this elementary logic.
#2: when you subsidize something you get more of it. it’s human nature to impart less value, and thus more wasteful utilization, to something that is perceived free of charge. people tend to allocate their resources much better when they have to earn those resources by the sweat of their own brows.
#3: manufactured pride is the hallmark of the loser. if the fatties keep circling their wagons, they’ll be easier to round up and bounce into space.
#4: i dunno about mass murderers, but proportionately more blacks are serial killers than whites. this is a hatefact you won’t hear in the msm. as for privilege… this meme has to die already. privilege is just another word for innate talent. if you’ve got the skills to make it to the top, there will always be envious losers who think you were given special advantages. FACT: special advantages are the domain of minorities and women, not white males.
#5: dalrymple is an international treasure. the brit opening ceremony was repugnant multicult and socialist smegma. the west is in the process of throwing in the towel.
This isn’t exactly news, but I’ve seen it recently in two different reality-type programs:
Fatties constantly express how “hot” they (think) are. Wishful thinking, of course.
Should have taken the car, sold it, and got lipo.
4)Was going to say the same as Heartiste on serial killers. The common denominator on pretty much all of these mass murderers seems to be mental illness, not “privilege”. The only recent mass/spree killers that come to mind that were actually motivated by something other than insanity are Anders Breivik, the black “DC Snipers”, Omar Thornton, the Fort Hood killer and the Cherokee/White spree killer duo.
High IQ and non-retardation mental illness go hand in hand. I’d expect to see Korean college students, Jews (schizo assassin Jared Loughner was Jewish and the Batman shooter was involved with some Hebrew Camp, so he’s possibly a mishlinge as well) and northern European whites to be disproportionately represented among the ‘goes crazy, kills people’ subset of murderers.
As far as political/socially motivated killings it seems that you are a lot more likely to see NAMs sans mental illness committing murder.
For now anyway. Breivik probably isn’t the last of his kind.
#3′s blog is like a big fat cavalcade of laughs. Some choice selections:
“I’m fighting for justice. I’m fighting for a world in which we all agree that there is no wrong way to have a body. I don’t support people in their choice to lose weight. It’s just that simple”
It’s a bird, its a plane, its…morbidly obese.
“I know this stance can be hard to read, especially for people still coming to terms with their own bodies and radical fat spaces. ”
Radical fat spaces, heh.
“In fact, I encourage everyone to engage in critical investigations of diet culture and the ways in which we are both resistant and complicit.”
Diet culture? I see. It appears that this chick writes by taking feminist boilerplate, and switching “women” with “fat” and “men” with “thin”.
I give her credit for studying biochemistry, but I can’t help but think that this behemoth got her chance at Columbia because of some affirmative action spiel, while some (dude) more qualified than her had to go pound sand and study at state.
Most male athletes seem to wear minimal clothing as well. Male divers and swimmers, in fact, usually wear much less than women. And since the first Olympians competed in the nude, why is this such a problem?
Oh yeah…because feminists hate sex nowadays.
In related news, when your mom approves of your womanizing, you know you’re an alpha male:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2182157/Olympic-heartthrob-Ryan-Lochte-spills-bachelor-lifestyle.html
#2) I found slogging through the Kaestner/LoSasso research on Dr.-bashing tough going.
They use the term, “supply-sensitive care” to mean “Dr.-driven overuse with no proven health benefits”
. Perhaps concrete examples would be: 1) Dr. Psychiatrist sees Middle Age Woman with depression frequently. This week her symptoms of depression are somewhat worse, so s/he recommends hospital admission. 2). Outpt. PSA testing of older male generates specialist referral, biopsy, and inpatient surgery. He was in the statistical heap of men who would have died of other reasons and only minimally bothered by his prostate. 3) Older male falls, sustains a minimally weight bearing pelvis fracture. Dr. Overuse admits him to hospital for the same pain meds and physical therapy he could have received as an outpatient.
Anyway, the authors found $1(outpatient) ——>$1.46(inpatient), compared to patients with no insurance. Dr. Overuse is driven by patient demands, risk-intolerance, and sometimes revenue.
Incidentally interesting, 1) the research was partially funded by American Enterprise Institute, 2)50%+ of the adult employed enrollees were single.
The British like to tease Americans about being hypochondriacs, so it surprised me they celebrated their healthcare system that way.
At first I thought it was a scene out of Oliver Twist.
Laurie Essig – vile, just vile.
When a person goes mad, they do so in culturally specific ways. . . there is something about white masculinity that produces these mass murderers in the same way there is something about religious extremism that produces suicide bombers.
Do you get that? Not Islam, or Islamic extremism, not Arab culture or Southwest Asian masculinity, but vague religious extremism. Why is it that she can’t name the religion that has cornered the suicide bomber market? It’s because in the Liberal race war against whites any ally will do, even homophobic, anti-feminist Muslims, even Muslim terrorists. She can’t name them because she fears doing so might cause the white victims of the racist colonialism she supports to rethink the value of multiculturalism and open borders. In not doing so she, in her little way, helps enable that terrorism, she declares the victims of it to be an acceptable price in the bigger war to eliminate “Whiteness.”
When white masculinity is mixed with serious mental illness, it feels entitled to take lives.
Seriously? Does she care to produce data on the percentage of mentally ill white males who go on mass shooting sprees.
if James Holmes were black or brown this would be one more signal to the existence of a “pathological culture” among said group.
Is he kidding? We have right now the phenomenon of black “flash mobs” committing what are clearly hate crimes and not only does the government or the media not call them hate crimes, not only do the not acknowledge these crimes as a racial group phenomenon, they refuse to identify the mobs as black. Ordinary people might ask “what’s wrong with blacks” or say it’s a signal of a pathological culture, but the people in power, including journalists and professors, never do. Who’s privileged?
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