Kicking. Squealing.
1. A perfect example of cafeteria feminism:
“It is a shame that anytime something goes wrong, they pick on women and minorities,” Rep. Marcia Fudge, D-Ohio, the next chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, told reporters Friday at a Capitol Hill news conference.
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“To batter this woman because they don’t feel they have the ability to batter President Obama is something we the women are not going to stand by and watch,” said Rep. Gwen Moore, D-Wis. “Their feckless and reckless speculation is unworthy of their offices as senators.”
Said Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C.: “We will not allow a brilliant public servant’s record to be mugged to cut off her consideration to be secretary of state.”
Drama queens perpetuating the ridiculous War on Women trope with hyperbolic language. If you can’t handle the criticism after being wrong, get back in the kitchen.
2. Interesting article on height differentials in men and women:
Shorter women have more children. And while being on the low end of the measuring stick benefits them on an evolutionary scale, it keeps their brothers from attaining the trait that favors their reproductive success: average height. Researchers in the UK claim to be the first to demonstrate this new explanation for why height variation exists: That one’s height depends heavily on one’s genes, and that the genetic mechanisms for determining height are similar in men and women, preventing each gender from being able to evolve independently toward their sex-specific ideals.
It is possible that homosexuality can also be explained:
The same, it has been shown, may go for attractiveness as well: A study from last year found that among siblings who were “physically and hormonally masculine,” the brothers were seen as more attractive than their sisters. It’s also been suggested that this conflict explains how homosexuality can be perpetuated in the population. The genetic factor that makes gay males very much not reproductively fit benefits their sisters, who tend to have more children than the general population.
3. A black woman conducted an experiment on Monster.com. She had worked in the insurance industry for a decade and went back to get a degree of some sort. When she finished school she applied for a lot of jobs but couldn’t get a call back. She noticed that Monster asks about race and instead of reporting that she was a black female she checked the “decline to identify” box. And then she uploaded a resume under the name Bianca White. Her callbacks soared, reportedly.
Even if systematic racism exists in the hiring process, this “experiment” doesn’t really tell us anything. “Bianca White” isn’t a white person’s name, for starters. It sounds like a stripper’s name which may be part of the reason for a spike in callbacks. What male hiring manager wouldn’t want to at least interview a woman with that name?
4. Mark Krikorian gives a good fisking to a Wall Street Journal editorial clamoring for more pandering to Hispanics.
My wife an Afro-American Woman has filled out over 1000, applications in one year, with only one person to call and hire her. In Georgia, during the interview they told her we thought you were white, because of her dialect over the phone. She got the Job, but was fire 6 months later, because she was black. One employee told her we don’t like your kind, another said you have to watch those people. She was subjected to racial slurs and comments every day, so much clients of the business black and white would apologize to her for how she was treated. She was the only one hire their required to learn the entire companies manul, take a test and pass. Which she did, she was accused of stealing which it was a white female after an investigation, which no action was taken against the other female. Long story short she was terminated, because they could in an at will state, while on a probation period. She applied for unenployement, they denied it for weeks, after the interview with her former employer, they found my wife was unjustly fired and discriminated against. So for someone to asume Black people are lazy and they don’t look jobs is a lie. This Job Market is totally agianst Afro-Americans.
^ the above comment is 100% completely fabricated bullshit
@Mohadeeba
They’re so racist they hired her just so they could fire her! Granted, I’m with anonymous that the comment is complete bullshit but if it is true she was probably fired because she’s a shitty worker.
“but was fire 6 months later, because she was black”
cool story bro.
Mohadeeba:
I think you posted that comment at the wrong blog. You’re looking for http://www.shitthatneverhappened.com
As a famous black man once said, “Excuses are tools of the incompetent”.
This Job Market is totally agianst Afro-Americans.
This should enable you to figure out that affirmative action harms blacks more than helps them.
Long story short she was terminated, because they could in an at will state,
As a black woman, leftists have taught her that she is entitled to a paycheck without working. They lied to her that an employer would not actually want results in return.
You might want to read Greg Cochrane on the male homosexuality issue. TL,DR version: a slight increase in reproductive success among the sisters of gay men is not sufficient to explain a genetic basis for male homosexuality, as it isn’t enough to make up for the chidren the brother would have had if he were straight. The proportion of “gay” genes in the population would still quickly decrease to nothing over a few generations. The one(?) study that showed this increased fertility effect for women with gay brothers found an increase of only a few percent.
Regarding (3), I wonder what would have happened if a man had changed his name to something female and then submitted the same resume. Going to mass interviews and “superdays” years ago, the ratio of women to men always increased as the field of potential new employees thinned out. So is it just white women that get the advantage? I also wonder what would have happened if this woman pretended to be a man. I suspect that — if it benefited her at all — it wouldn’t have done as much as becoming a white woman supposedly did.
The last Bianca that I met was super hot. If I ever have to hire a secretary and I see a resume with the name Bianca cross my desk, I’ll sure as hell interview her.
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