[Re: “Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski: Republicans are Their Own Worst Enemies.”]
By Eahilf Maybe it’s just me (it oftentimes is these days), but I fail to see how going with what is at this point essentially a “he said, she said” story (she denied the affair story on twitter) contributes to “American Greatness.” That said, I don’t like Noem – in part because I don’t see women as authority figures and so do not want them in leadership positions, even nominal ones (i.e., as figureheads) – I concede some of them can be OK as decision-makers, but that’s not the same as being an authority figure. Part of being an authority figure is having some sort of physical presence – regarding that, a little known fact: the average 80-year-old male has more grip strength than an average female of any age – you can see that in graph form here – graph of measured grip strength vs. age for both males (blue) and females (green)
N.S.: Sorry, Eahilf, but Kristi Noem’s stunning beauty invalidates all of your counter-arguments!
In a more serious vein, Henry VIII's daughter, Good Queen Bess, and Mrs. Thatcher seemed to have what it takes.
Thursday, September 30, 2021 at 3:34:00 A.M. EDT
Grip strength? Really? When I was young I had great grip strength--I could climb to the top of the gym's peg boards without using the pegs--just by gripping the sides of the boards. Some of the tough kids who couldn't climb were amazed, "he's like a spider!" But I never was any kind of leader. Now Phylis Schlafly, who probably had a fraction of my grip strength, now there was a leader. She single-handedly stopped the Equal Rights Amendment and was on the right side of just about every issue. She would have made a great president.
ReplyDelete>Does Kristi Noem Have What It Takes to Lead?
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Go review my previous comment re women as authority figures -- NO THANKS.
Only in dancing with Ellen Degenerate.
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Another 'Anonymous' (October 2, 2021 at 3:05:00) who cannot figure out how to post anonymously without posting as 'Anonymous' -- it's impossible to tell one 'Anonymous' from another.
ReplyDelete>When I was young I had great grip strength
And one who makes completely anecdotal, unverifiable, and largely irrelevant claims about their own earlier personal prowess ... at something.
For the record: I grew up participating in sports, including wrestling, and so met and competed with/against a number of strong guys, including into young adulthood -- the few who were recognized as a kind of authority figure, e.g. by being appointed/elected team captain, were always guys who were both solid performers as well as having intelligence and a kind of presence/charisma -- they were generally not the stars of the team, and not the physically biggest/strongest -- I have no idea whether in other walks of life they were or developed into good decision makers (another very important aspect of 'leadership').
I used grip strength as a proxy for physical presence: women are physically weak and have no physical presence, the latter being something one expects in an authority figure -- by itself, grip strength is not a reliable indicator of anything other than grip strength.
Anecdotally, I have worked at companies (technical/engineering) that elevated women to management positions (partly to keep the EEOC away, I'm sure), and I cannot recall a single case where said female manager was respected within the ranks.
Lawrence Sommers got into trouble at Harvard (link) for remarks he made about the paucity of female professors in the hard sciences and engineering -- the reality is that above an IQ of approx 135, men outnumber women 7:1, and this is the group such professors come from -- to be fair: there are more really dumb men than women, i.e. below a certain level on the IQ distribution curve, men predominate (but it's not 7:1).
Personally, as a male, I'm just not interested in female 'leaders', period -- for me, it's visceral: they are simply not authority figures -- in fact, many have convincingly argued that giving women the vote, and therefore causing politicians to appeal to them and their more emotion- and empathy-driven concerns ('tolerance'), started the US on its current path of social decline.
The irony of your mention of Schlafly is that she argued against elevating women into a position in society where they would compete more directly with men, including e.g. by being 'leaders'.
>grip strength
ReplyDeleteI used grip strength to show how dramatic the difference in physical strength between men and women is -- also because there are available tables constructed from huge sample sizes comparing men vs women across a wide age range.
Here's what it means:
If someone says behind door #1 is an 80 y/o man, and behind door #2 a 25 y/o woman, and then asks: 'Who has greater grip strength?' -- with no further info, you should answer 'The 80 y/o man behind door #1'.
What it doesn't mean:
You will always be right -- it could be that the 80 y/o man suffers from COPD, and is sitting in a wheelchair hooked to supplemental oxygen, while the 25 y/o woman is the weightlifting gold medalist from Bulgaria -- here you would have made the wrong choice.
Someone sure got triggered by someone illustrating the silliness of his argument. He apparently is unable to distinguish between physical strength and moral strength. Such primitive thinking makes conservatives look dumb. He needs to look inside and find out why he has such a resentment of women.
ReplyDelete>Someone sure got triggered by someone illustrating the silliness of his argument.
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Said by someone who 1) still cannot figure out how to comment other than as 'Anonymous' while still remaining anonymous, and 2) stupidly focused on literal grip strength while missing the relative point (about authority figures and physical presence), and 3) told us about his own totally irrelevant grip strength.
And then was too fucking dumb to see he shot himself in the foot by mentioning Phyllis Schalfly, who campaigned against the 'equality' of men and women, i.e. against seeing them enshrined as interchangeable in civil society.
Go ask the men in Michigan how they really feel about living at the whim of Gretchen Whitmer and Jewish lesbian AG Dana Nessel.
Yeah I know about faggots like Gavin Newsom et al -- that's a separate problem.
Here's the deal dude: if you want to live by the whims of women, go form your own fucking country -- me, no thanks.
>resentment of women
And how fucking stupid can one person be? -- like most men, I believe in chivalry and (figuratively) put women on a pedestal -- but only figuratively -- I don't want them to be literally on a pedestal telling me what to do.
Comprende?
What a fucking moron.