JAMES FLYNN, the IQ expert, continues to receive shockingly fawning press for his claim that IQ tests show women are now smarter than men. Interestingly, there have been no public hysterics or angry demands for new programs, as there were when Lawrence Summers said men were possibly more qualified mentally for certain fields. The eagerness with which the press has lapped up this story, while for years it never much noticed the many IQ tests that showed men’s mean scores were slightly higher, indicates that it is a deeply satisfying bit of news. It affirms the liberal view of history as a sordid tale of oppression and shows that despite the massive chaos feminism has unleashed on the life of the ordinary person, all is okay because at least women are a bit smarter. Perhaps the average woman is smart enough to hold a job at Wal-Mart plus a job as a construction worker and raise three children without any husband.

The problem is, Flynn’s findings, accepted as if now unquestioned scientific fact, are highly sketchy. Flynn revealed to ABC news that his studies, which took place in Estonia, Argentina, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa, involved girls and boys between the ages of 15 and 18. Psychologists have noted for years that adolescent girls develop faster than boys and complete puberty earlier.

Flynn also made other statements that shed serious doubt on his command of this issue: (more…)

JAMES P. writes:

Photos from a bygone era — no exposed flesh, no tattoos, no obesity, no diversity, and two women are reading books as they walk down the street rather than playing with their phones.

Laura writes:

Disgusting.

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  IT'S not quite that bad, but give the Navy a few more years to work out the implications of women on subs. Now that submarines are officially Love Boats, these important and necessary accommodations are only a matter of time. For a federal bureaucracy entrusted with the exciting project of equality, no expense is too much --- except of course the expense and inconvenience of maintaining military objectives.

HENRY McCULLOCH writes:

The Daily Mail reported last week on young Englishwoman (sort of) Amy Crowhurst, who had her first child, so we’re told, at 12. Crowhurst, who lives in a council flat on benefits now tells Closer magazine (whatever that is) that “having kids young was the smartest thing I ever did” because now, at age 22, she has “the freedom to meet mates and go clubbing when my mum babysits.”

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  JAMES P. writes: The Telegraph reports that Elton John "wants to have more children" -- no doubt once again via a surrogate mother, although this is phrased as "he wants to have more children" as if he were doing so by the normal, natural method. Happily, Elton and his "partner" have made "a scrapbook for their son about how he was created" to help the boy overcome the absurd stigma associated with being artificially created, carried in the womb of a jackal prostitute surrogate mother, and raised by two aging, homosexual former drug addicts. No doubt the second child will also benefit from the wisdom of this scrapbook!

NEWS outlets around the world yesterday reported that women are now smarter on average than men. James Flynn, the well-known intelligence researcher for whom the famous “Flynn Effect” is named, was quoted as stating that recent IQ tests show women’s scores have risen in relation to men’s and even surpassed them.

What most news outlets failed to mention in this widely disseminated piece of junk journalism was that Flynn said women had marginally higher scores than men in three countries: New Zealand, Estonia and Argentina. This Daily Mail article is the only one of the many stories that goes into any details. Even so, it too is highly misleading and  incomplete. Flynn, who is awaiting the release of his new book, should take his publicist to lunch. Whoever she is, she deserves it. (more…)

IN 2004, Lawrence Auster wrote the following prayer four days before Massachusetts officially recognized same-sex “marriage,” which resulted in lesbianism becoming more open and common in towns such as Northampton, a place where educated and intelligent adults now routinely conspire to deprive children of their fathers. The prayer is still apt today. (more…)

JESSE POWELL writes:

Northampton, Massachusetts, home of Smith College, has been an epicenter of feminism for decades. Both Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan graduated from the Seven Sisters school, which in recent years also has had a reputation as a place where brainy women resolve their identity crises by becoming lesbians, either permanently or just for the college years.

It is no surprise, given this history and the fact that Massachusetts became the first state to recognize same sex “marriage” in 2004, that Northampton is the lesbian capital of the United States.  Fully six percent of households with children in Northampton are headed by a lesbian couple and almost eight percent of “romantic partnerships’ are between women. Nearby East Hampton and Greenfield, Massachusetts also have relatively large populations of lesbian couples who live with children (156 in Northampton, 52 in Easthampton, and 38 in Greenfield). These are by wide margins the highest such ratios in the United States.

While lesbians are still a small minority of the total population in Northampton, they have unusual visibility and acceptance.

Northampton elected its first openly lesbian mayor, Mary Clare Higgins, in November 1999. She served continuously as mayor until she resigned the position in September 2011 to head an anti-poverty agency in the area.

And, Smith makes no secret of its warm approval of lesbianism. Its commencement speaker this year was the televison celebrity Jane Lynch, who spoke fondly of her “wife,” a Smith alum.

“You are the women of Smith,” Lynch said in her commencement speech. “You are fiercely independent, wicked smart, trail blazing, uber confident and shockingly entitled. Like I told you, I live with one of you. I have no doubt you will continue with this legacy and you will change the world. And, we need you to, women of Smith College — now more than ever.”

Lara Embry, Lynch’s lesbian girlfriend, exemplifies this spirit of change. She sued her ex-lesbian lover for partial custody of the woman’s child and won in a Florida court of appeals, thus redefining adoption rights there. (more…)

LAST month, President Obama announced the Department of Education will be extending Title IX guidelines to the fields of science, technology and engineering, raising the specter of institutionalized bias against men in fields in which they now overwhelmingly dominate. Title IX resulted in quotas on male and female participation in college athletics and the disbanding of prominent men’s teams.

Interestingly, the President did not suggest any guidelines in fields which are disproportionately female, such as the humanities. The goal is not truly equality, such a thing is impossible, but the demotion of men and elevation of women in any field in which men excel. Fueled as it is by feminist envy and self-loathing, the whole project is based on a pathetic devaluation of women — and of science.

Courts have struck down quotas in education before, but that won’t stop the Obama administration from barreling ahead.

Charlotte Allen in Minding the Campus writes:  (more…)

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FITZGERALD writes:

Bloomberg reports that single women favor Obama by a ratio of almost two-to-one:

“Married voters are more likely to focus on the economy and health care, while single voters are more focused on issues such as gay rights and reproductive issues,” said [Peter Brown, assistant director of the Hamden, Connecticut-based Quinnipiac University Polling Institute] in an e-mailed statement accompanying the poll, conducted July 1-8. (more…)

BUCK writes:

The heavily tattoed lesbian discussed in the previous entry brought back chilling memories of a girl from grade school (circa 1958). I’ll never forget her. She may have been the meanest and most angry person I ever knew, and the scariest. We were in fourth or fifth grade. She dressed like a boy, as bad-ass a boy as she could. Black leather, belted biker’s jacket (Wild Ones) with blue jeans rolled up into cuffs and black leather bombers. She was maybe a year older than me. (more…)

JANE S. writes:

When I was a child, I loved reading Lois Lenski. She wrote and/or illustrated more than 100 books, as well as poetry, songs, and plays. Sadly, her books getting hard to find.

One of the things that makes her stories so precious is that they offer a glimpse of a time when there were distinct differences between regions of America. Differences in the way people dressed, in their style of cooking, in the ways they entertained themselves. This is in contrast to today, where America is more and more like a continuous, coast-to-coast strip mall.

In the foreword to one book, she talks about how she became inspired to write songs:

“My deep interest in our American regions stimulated me to write songs to interpet the lives of my Regional children, songs such as these children might write themselves, were they articulate. . . I have wanted them to illuminate the real environment – desert, woodland, mountain, city, river, cottonfields – where real children live; and to make it vivid and understandable to other children who have never been in these places at all.”

She goes on to write: (more…)

JENNIFER writes:

I just wanted to let you know I am in a difficult situation with some new neighbors lately and I found your old posts (here, here, and here) about “Lesbians and Neighbors” helpful.

My new neighbors are lesbians with a small child. They are determined to have her “socialize” to build her “social skills” and my children are children they would like her to socialize with. (more…)

RICH P. writes:

I am considering proposing marriage to my girlfriend of two years. She is sweet and kind, especially to children and the elderly. She remained faithful to me through a deployment to Iraq. She sought confirmation as a Catholic, expressing that if we were to begin a family, unity of faith would be absolutely essential. Her faith before the Sacrament is an inspiration to me. Previously our relationship had been intimate but for the last six months she’s quit birth control and we have (thankfully) recovered a commitment to chastity. (more…)

THOMAS F. BERTONNEAU writes: I want to tell you about an amazing new dinner product from the American food industry, Higgs Boson Helper. When added to absolutely nothing and placed in a casserole dish, Higgs Boson Helper immediately adds mass to your main course. It's microwaveable and comes in four savory flavors: Muon, Gluon, Meson, and Quark. As Scarlet O'Hara said, "I'll never be hungry again!"