Did we cover the WaPo piece on how dumb women are?

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And what, exactly, the WaPo was thinking when they published this?

Ohhhh yes, Betsy had that in her LJ. Speaking of needing to be beaten with some statistics.

Did we cover the WaPo piece on how dumb women are?

Wait...that's not a joke?

huh???

Did we cover the WaPo piece on how dumb women are?

That's almost as bad as one of ita's links!

the deeply held but incorrect belief that the suicidal are determined to die

This is widely known in suicide research, just on basis of method-choice. Females attempt suicide much more often than males, but because they tend to choose less-lethal methods (i.e., rarely firearms), the female suicide rate is considerably lower than the male rate.

Well, the first thing you have to do is define suicidal. I've know people whose slit wrists were just the same in terms of commitment as screaming to others "I wish I were dead!" They're not actually trying to die. They are trying to get attention (and I don't want to sound dismissive of that goal).

The weapon choice thing is interesting. I've read that it's because women want to leave tidier corpses--does that mean they want to die less? I mean, if they have the same confidence in their pills as a guy has in a guy, does it mean she wants to die less, or is she just uninformed? Maybe she's scared of it hurting...there are a lot of things in play.

I'm not sure from your second paragraph where you stand on that, Nutty. Are men equivalently crying for help? But just picking the dumb method?

Did we cover the WaPo piece on how dumb women are?

I was disappointed they failed to mention the cooties....

Did we cover the WaPo piece on how dumb women are?

No, all of us girls were too busy leaving our jobs to "go fulfill our proper lot in life and make our house a home." t rolls eyes

the things most important to life at which nearly all of us excel: tenderness toward children and men and the weak and the ability to make a house a home. (Even I, who inherited my interior-decorating skills from my Bronx Irish paternal grandmother, whose idea of upgrading the living-room sofa was to throw a blanket over it, can make a house a home.) Then we could shriek and swoon and gossip and read chick lit to our hearts' content and not mind the fact that way down deep, we are . . . kind of dim

There's a planet on which that's not just posting for the sake of the flames?

"please call the police if you see minorities on our block"

jesus christ. I can't even deal with the rest of the last 50 or so posts.

The writer is sort of a Phyllis Schlafly. She really believes it...but can't make teh logical leap that since she admits to being dim...perhaps she's also too stupid to realize that her stats and thesis are incorrect.

The weapon choice thing is interesting. I've read that it's because women want to leave tidier corpses

This.