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NYTimes' David Brooks Addresses Boys' Lag in Education
posted by Matt on 09:21 PM October 16th, 2005
The Media David Brooks helps with the Lace Curtain problem with this article. Alas, the NYT has recently decided to start charging for access to their Op-Ed content, but if you subscribe, apparently, you can register for site access "for free". If not, it's worth a look next time you're at your local library. It's in the Oct. 16, 2005 issue of the New York Times in the Op-Ed section, titled: "Mind Over Muscle". The Times graciously allows unpaying readers the first sentence:

"If we want to help boys keep up with girls, we have to have an honest discussion about innate differences between the sexes."

I read it in the NYT today and thought, "Wow, how did this get past the editor-in-chief?"

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extract content (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 10:11 AM October 17th, 2005 EST (#1)

...can someone extract content from this article and paste here, my PC seems to have issues with the reg process...
Even a blind Squirrel finds a nut now and then. (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 12:49 PM October 17th, 2005 EST (#2)
Wow, the N.Y.T. actually PRINTED this story??

Well, I doubt they're "coming around" or anything, but we'll take good news where we can get it.

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Iraq's constitution (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 01:26 PM October 17th, 2005 EST (#3)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/15/international/mi ddleeast/15web-itex.html
"We the people of Iraq who have just risen from our stumble, and who are looking with confidence to the future through a republican, federal, democratic, pluralistic system, have resolved with the determination of our men, women, the elderly and youth, to respect the rules of law, to establish justice and equality to cast aside the politics of aggression, and to tend to the concerns of women and their rights, and to the elderly and their concerns, and to children and their affairs and to spread a culture of diversity and defusing terrorism."

Men get responsibilities, women get rights.

I thought that the arabs weren't retarded...

Re:Iraq's constitution (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 02:21 PM October 17th, 2005 EST (#4)
Great.
We're exporting political-correctness.
How wonderful!
*rolls eyes*

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Re:Iraq's constitution (Score:2)
by frank h on 02:22 PM October 17th, 2005 EST (#5)
I have the impression that, in Islam, women are regarded more as "property" than persons, and I guess in that vein, they cannot be charged with responsibility. I think Muslim men need to get past this point, and quickly, or else they will find themselves in the same sorry state that American men find themselves, w.r.t. gender politics.

In other words, RIGHT AWAY, they need to charge women with responsibilities to go along with those rights.

My prediction? They'll f**k it up just like we did.
Re:Iraq's constitution (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 09:10 PM October 17th, 2005 EST (#7)
Islam is said to be more pro-women's rights then Christianity was. If you compare the books it seems to be the case (Bible affords women about 0 rights). So they might just get stuck with women's rights :/. However, it hasn't stopped them in the past from not having womens rights... though one sees modern Christianity all pro women's rights now... so there may be no turning back.

Women should have no rights.
Re:Iraq's constitution (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 12:12 AM October 18th, 2005 EST (#8)
Hopefully they will reject women's rights, some of their clerics do.
You all need to understand something. (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 03:29 PM October 17th, 2005 EST (#6)
This isn't about EQUALITY.
The feminists, the media and probably even the federal government WANT boys to fail in school.
They WANT girls to do VASTLY better. They WANT a matriarchy, PIRIOD.
It's NOT ABOUT EQUALITY!
NEVER has been NEVER WILL be.
Re:You all need to understand something. (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 01:01 PM October 18th, 2005 EST (#9)
Anon-
Don't be so upset.
We DO understand that, trust me.

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