"Then there is feminism. If one looked just at "the women's movement" itself, who could possible resist the conclusion that women are intellectually inferior to men?

The quote is, apparently, from 1986, but it holds more true then ever over a broader range of areas well beyond academia.

Posted by Don Rodrigo at June 10, 2011 12:27 PM

I recognize that crap from my time in undergrad from teh mid to late-1980's. What interests me is how long it has gone on, and I wonder if it will fall victim to Intapundit's higher ed bubble.

Posted by Mikey NTH at June 10, 2011 12:43 PM

I once read something by Frank Schaeffer (not Francis, but his son) which went something like this:

Learning about art and literature via Marxist, feminist postmodernism, is like learning about sex via rape.

Posted by Jewel at June 10, 2011 1:46 PM

Nah, the Slut-walk has some merit; that brings things to the elemental level.

Now I know that when I want a slut I'll look for a Feminazi. Glad they 'splained it.

Posted by Peccable at June 10, 2011 2:28 PM

Ah, let me slide into my club chair here at the He-Man Woman Haters Club:

She can bring no more to living than the powers that make her great
As the Mother of the Infant and the Mistress of the Mate.
And when Babe and Man are lacking and she strides unclaimed to claim
Her right as femme (and baron), her equipment is the same.

She is wedded to convictions—in default of grosser ties;
Her contentions are her children, Heaven help him who denies!—
He will meet no suave discussion, but the instant, white-hot, wild,
Wakened female of the species warring as for spouse and child. ~Kipling

Posted by Casca at June 10, 2011 6:37 PM

Can't remember where I read the comment recently, but I have to agree with it: "Feminism and femininity go together like oil and water." That's why the feminist women hate the feminine Sarah Palin.

Posted by Drdave at June 10, 2011 9:18 PM

As a recently divorced friend said, "If it weren't for sex there would be a bounty on em."

Posted by Alfonzo at June 12, 2011 6:26 PM

She can bring no more to living than the powers that make her great
As the Mother of the Infant and the Mistress of the Mate.

Wow. All the way from "Feminists haven't produced anything worthy of intellectual respect" to "Women have nothing more to offer the world than as mothers and wives/mistresses"?

Allow me to disagree with Kipling and posit that there may be one or two rational women in the world - nay, even a few who do, in fact, understand justice.

Posted by Dr. Freud, Your Slip is Showing at June 13, 2011 8:08 AM

Well, it is more like the Kipling came first and the Stowe second in 1986.

But I shall go with Kipling here when he said, long long ago,

"Gee, you're so cute when you're mad!"

[Ducking]

Posted by Vanderleun at June 13, 2011 8:13 AM