Monday, January 02, 2006

perfect start to the year

Tennessee Guerilla Women: David Brooks: The Year of Domesticity

wow. since the times went all premium i've thankfully been spared the weekly aneurism i suffer whenever i read him. but thanks to the folks at Tennessee Guerilla Women, here's Bobo at his most patriarchal:
Her third mistake is to not even grapple with the fact that men and women are wired differently. The Larry Summers flap produced an outpouring of work on the neurological differences between men and women. I'd especially recommend ''The Inequality Taboo'' by Charles Murray in Commentary and a debate between Steven Pinker and Elizabeth Spelke in the online magazine Edge.

One of the findings of this research is that men are more interested in things and abstract rules while women are more interested in people. (You can come up with your own Darwinian explanation as to why.)

3 comments:

Orange said...

Ding, I received a gift subscription to TimesSelect. So if you have any columnist needs...

Delia Christina said...

any exposure to david brooks would have to be measured in slow teaspoons...

MEP said...

Oh Lord, that is really insulting. And you know people read that and think, "yeah! I was right all along, women are supposed to be at home!"