Originally posted by Sean Murphy:
So, Chris, you insist you don't have any negative bias against women. Does anyone really think that someone who could come up with these doozies [quotes] doesn't, you know, have some serious issues about women to work out, especially as regards to women and money?

Originally posted by ChrisW from what Neil Lyndon wrote:
I had achieved something that may be unique in our age: I had committed an unpardonable heresy.

In an era of no faiths, no moral certainties and no saints, it is almost impossible to say something that so outrages a common creed that its author will be banished or ostracised. Any view or opinion is permissible on the monarchy, the church, political leaders and other public figures. Treason has been abolished. Indecency does not exist. There are, effectively, no limits remaining on the licence extended to entertainers. Yet my writing resulted not only in my professional ruin: it also made me an untouchable.

What had I said? What could I have written that was so violently offensive? I raised some doubts about the central claims of feminism and I questioned some of the fundamental tenets of its ideology.

Originally posted by Sean Murphy:
Really, Chris, carrying around the opinion that women are inherently golddigging bitches isn't going to help you get laid.

Harvard’s Diversity Grovel

In earmarking $50 million for “diversity,” President Summers is throwing away more than money.

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As President of Harvard–a place so progressive that John Harvard himself would be arrested if he showed up today–I want to apologize to each and every one of you.

When I said the ROTC should be allowed on campus, I was wrong. Of course we don’t need a military. If this country is ever invaded, I’m sure the students of Harvard will rise up as one and smite the invaders with 500 lb. Diversity Handbooks and “inappropriate looking.” For saying that, I am truly sorry.

When I said Israel had a right to exist, well, I must have been out of my mind. Just because Europeans tried to wipe the Jewish people off the face of the earth, that’s no reason to pick up your marbles and go home. Damn poor sports. And therefore, I apologize.

When I said that there might be a difference between men and women, I was drunk. Very drunk. In fact, I’m drinking now. There are absolutely NO differences between men and women. But if there are, women are superior in every way. Including women who were once men. I regret these remarks.

When I disparaged grade inflation, I had forgotten that getting an “A” was your Constitutional Right as a Harvard student. Indeed, if you just want to stay home and spend your tuition money on crack, porn, beer and pizza, I’ll be happy to send you a Harvard diploma in your choice of fields. Just send me a stamped, self-addressed envelope –and financial aid is available for those who cannot afford a stamp! Can you ever forgive me?

When I let Cornell West go, I was demonstrating my unconscious racism. After all, who among us hasn’t made rap albums on company time? Or spoken in academic jargon so pretentious, turgid and impenetrable that only three other people in the whole world could understand what was being said?

To Brother West, let me say this: The presemioticist paradigm of the patriarchial dematerialism defenestrates conclusively that the neomodern mythopoetical depilatory is a race/class construct of prepostmenstrual narrative.

And for that, I am deeply sorry.

If Heideggerian Theory holds.

In short, let me apologize profusely, humbly, and sincerely for anything and everything that has ever offended anyone, anywhere at any time since the Dawn of Recorded Herstory. Sorry ’bout that.

But I’m not here just to apologize.

No, if it’s not too much to ask, I would also like to grovel. Obsequesiously.

And prostrate myself–if that’s alright with you, I mean.

Even kow-tow–if that’s not an oppressive, racist, “othering” term.

But if it is…

I’m sorry.

Answer from Dave Sim on Reads, from Yahoo: Cerebus

Q3: Within the body of Reads, we are introduced to Victor Reid, and his alter ego Rotsieve. Given the parallels in the second half of Reads, and your admission of being a diagnosed borderline schizophrenic, could it be said that the authoring of the second half of Viktor Davis' Reads (and to some degree Tangent) could be inspired by your own "Rotsieve?" And if this is so, did you always assume the reaction would be so slanted on the Feminist/Homosexualist axis (making "Tangent" inevitable, or at least expected)? Or were you hoping to open a more level-headed dialogue using uninhibited (and shocking) prose to spur debate (the failure of which resulted in Tangent)?

DAVE: ...Well, I didn't see it as uninhibited and shocking. My thesis was just common sense supported by the evidence of what started going on in 1970 and what it had eroded into. The fact that the societal status quo of discussion of feminism is still inhibited-'don't go there'-The reaction to me was just the feminist/homosexualist axis doing what they do best-being drama queens. If you can't refute the argument then pitch a hissy fit and hope everyone just focuses on the hissy fit and forgets the argument. That's all that's going on at Harvard right now, that's all that the feminist who said she had to run out of the room where Summers was speaking because otherwise she was sure she would've fainted or vomited was doing. She was being a drama queen and hoping her drama queen antics would distract people from the subject. Worked good. It always works good. That's why feminists and homosexualists use it so much. Lawrence Summers is throwing 50 million dollars at the problem instead of discussing it.
He knows how his team works. Don't call it a bribe, but if they pitch a hissy fit you have to keep throwing money at them until they stop. My guess is that they'll stop when he hits the 75 million dollar mark.

The latest research indicating that at least some aspects of homosexuality may be "hard-wired" into the brain has once again fanned the flames of debate.

Swedish scientists claim that chemicals called pheromones that affect our sense of smell are different for gay men and straight men, providing another biologic basis for different sexual orientation.

The New York City Council passed a bill requiring all new buildings and those with extensive renovations to have twice as many toilets for women than men.

The so-called potty-parity bill passed 50-0 after a compromise was reached with Mayor Michael Bloomberg scrapping an original version that would have required all public buildings in New York City -- regardless of age or ownership -- to conform to the 2-1 ratio, the New York Daily News reported.