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Isn’t One Caitlin Flanagan More Than Enough for The Atlantic?

[ 11 ] March 19, 2013 | Scott Lemieux

Shorter Christina Hoff Summers: “Men drive like this, women drive like this. So it’s OK if the latter have constrained economic and political opportunities.”

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  1. actor212 says:
    March 19, 2013 at 11:15 am

    Whoa. That is one huge honking sack of shit you uncovered, Scott!

    I like how “75% of fathers say they’d prefer to work full time.”

    As opposed to, what? Housekeeping?

    But that’s women’s work! Which is the whole point behind the gender equality movement: to stop that shit and replace it with attitudes that allow for the better qualified spouse to be the breadwinner, no matter if mommy or daddy.

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    • L2P says:
      March 19, 2013 at 11:23 am

      American women may be behind men in engineering, but they now earn a majority of all Ph.Ds and outnumber men in humanities, biology, social sciences, and health sciences.

      That the author doesn’t immediately see the problem here is glaring, isn’t it?

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  2. L2P says:
    March 19, 2013 at 11:20 am

    In place of bland assertion, Sandberg needs to explain why the life choices of educated, intelligent women in liberal, opportunity-rich societies are unfree. And she needs to explain why the choices she promotes will make women happier and more fulfilled.

    Yes, because there’s no obvious problems in a country where female professionals are routinely asked if they are planning to have children, while men are assumed to be able to handle children and careers.

    Just because women aren’t literally chained to the kitchen doesn’t mean they can do everything as freely as men.

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  3. Bitter Scribe says:
    March 19, 2013 at 11:43 am

    Chistina Hoff Summers was Caitlin Flanagan before there was a Caitlin Flanagan.

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  4. Shakezula says:
    March 19, 2013 at 12:34 pm

    Sometimes the shorter irritates me so much I don’t dare click on the story. This is one of those times.

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  5. cpinva says:
    March 19, 2013 at 9:37 pm

    i could only read about half, before i just started gagging on the overt stupidity. i note she provided no actual cite for the “study” she sources, for a fair part of the column. always tends to make me suspicious: does the “study” actually exist? if it does, are its actual conclusions what the column’s author claims them to be?

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    • Lyanna says:
      March 20, 2013 at 8:31 am

      IIRC, this is a classic Sommers-type move. In “Who Stole Feminism?”, which I read and saw through as nonsense when I was 15 (and yet the mainstream press corps ate it up…), she makes all sorts of criticisms about the statistics used by prominent feminists…yet, if I remember right, “Who Stole Feminism?” itself had to be yanked by the publisher for egregious statistical and other factual errors.

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