"Bonnie not surprised that men win more Darwin Awards"

Submitted by Mastodon on Sun, 2015-01-11 04:56

Article here. Excerpt:

'Nothing like starting off the new year with a little male bashing. Then again, the article upon which this column springs to life was written by a male.

Last month, Business Insider science reporter Kevin Loria — whose byline features his manly, unshaven face, thus pretty much establishing his gender — openly declared, “We men are idiots.”

To which every female reader of Business Insider no doubt gave a silent, if somewhat unsurprised, nod of the ol’ noggin.

Loria based his declaration upon a recently-published article in the British Medical Journal regarding a study that found that since 1995 almost 89 percent of the recipients — 282 in all — of the Darwin Award were male.
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Those who claim a pair of XX chromosomes are not exempt from acts of idiocy, of course — yours truly included. When I was about 5, and disinclined to take the nap ordered by my mother, I decided to find out what would happen if I straightened out the bobby pin I had found under the bed and stick it inside the electrical wall socket next to the bed. Never did that again.

Same for the time when I was about 12, when I struck a match and held it close to my head. “Gee,” I told my younger brother, who was standing next to me, “It sounds just like a forest fire.”

“No wonder,” he calmly replied. “Your hair is on fire.”

Yep, I have done some idiotic things in my life — none fatal so far. Same for the poor woman who won a mention — though not the ultimate award — as a Darwin At-Risk Survivor.

Seems she decided to bake a cake using an old electric mixer with a detachable cord plugged into the socket.

Unfortunately one end of the cord popped out of the old mixer and into the batter. She turned off the mixer but failed to unplug it. Instead, she took the end of the still-live cord – dripping with cake batter – and stuck it in her mouth. Not only did she survive the shock, the woman would later use it as a teachable moment — as a first aid instructor.

Wonder how many men would do the same.'

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"Idiocracy" is beginning to seem increasingly more prophetic with each passing day. One way you can tell it's coming is by the sheer numbers of people who think all persons of a particular class of one or more indelible traits are idiots, which is a very idiotic notion to hold if for no other reason than it's so obviously idiotic.

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Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2015-01-13 08:45

Accidents are consequences of "risk taking" behavior. Do men need to take risks to make progress in their lives and get ahead? Yes. Traditionally, women have just left the "risk taking" to men.

What percentage of "risk taking" behavior is engaged in by men compared to women? With out "risk taking," homo sapiens would probably still be living in caves with cave-wives nagging men to make progress. :-/

It would be interesting to see how much women's "risk taking" behavior has increased (if any), since the most recent wave of feminism came on the scene in the 1960s.

I would posit that women get fewer Darwin awards simply because they are, and have long been, averse to "risk taking" behavior - leaving that to the male of the species.

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Submitted by MR on Tue, 2015-01-13 20:42

Kevin Loria is a perfect example of a "white knight". a type of bloke there are too many of, i'm afraid. they love to go Benedict Arnold on their own gender because they think it will win the affection of women for them, and that it's a good way to get laid. (pardon the expression) but in reality, we women on average see these types of men as ...well, wusses. quite a turn off to be honest.
however the "white knights" are quite the convenient idiots for feminists.
they give feminism the voice of "credibility". they will say: "SEE? SEE? even a MAN is saying men are inferior to women, so therefore it MUST be true!".
so that is the one and only reason feminists and complicit women keep these lap-dog chaps around.

...as to men being "idiots". ...really? is that so?
then why is it that nearly all science and inventions were and are created by MEN? and please no one give me the tommyrot that it's because women were oppressed. women have had the better part of a half century to be creative and make some type(s) of useful significant inventions. but where are they??
i don't see them.
more women are attending and graduating from college than men are.
where are the really significant inventions by women?
....well.... WHERE? where is the female Copernicus? the female Leonardo De vinci? the female Albert Einstein? the female Steven Hawkings?
hmmm? where?

Thundercloud had a saying, that i have always remembered. it is as follows:

"Women gorge themselves at the table of men's ingenuity, all the while cursing the founders of their feast..."

jolly smart man Thunder was. and he was right!

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Submitted by ErikaLancastor on Wed, 2015-01-14 05:40