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 | | From: | MCP | | Subject: | NOW Says Harvard President Lawrence Summers Should Resign | | Date: | Sat, 22 Jan 2005 09:42:22 GMT |
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 | http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/newswire/news2005/0105/012105-now-lawrence-summers-resign.htm
The National Organization for Women has called for the resignation of
Harvard University President Lawrence Summers.
Summers offended feminists last week when he suggested that "innate"
differences in men and women may help explain why men dominate math,
sciences and engineering.
But according to NOW, the long history of male domination in these fields is
attributable to "ism" and other social constructs.
CALMING RUFFLED FEATHERS
Summers, the former US Treasury Secretary from the Clinton administration,
has offered a series of increasingly contrite apologies to those whose
sensitivites were upset by his observations. In his third official apology,
posted Wednesday night on the Harvard website, Summers insisted that he
"deeply" regreted "the impact" of his comments.
"Summers' suggestion that women are inferior to men in their ability to
excel at math and science is more than an example of personal ism, it is
a clue to why women have not been more fully accepted and integrated into
the tenured faculty at Harvard since he has been president," said NOW
President Kim Gandy in a press release.
PRESSURE FOR POLITICAL PROMOTIONS
In their press release, NOW said they planed to begin "watching" Harvard
University to make sure they promote women to faculty positions in math and
science regardless of their ability: "Will Harvard encourage women as
students in the 'hard' sciences, promote more women in faculty positions,
and step up the recruitment of women for teaching positions in math and
science departments? Or will Harvard be thwarted in achieving these goals
with Summers at the helm?"
UNFORGIVABLE IDEAS
"Apologies are not enough," said Gandy. "Summers must go, and Harvard must
start with a clean slate."
GIRLS SMARTER THAN BOYS
In a related story, in Britain, Minister of Parliament and Chairman of the
Commons Educational Committee Barry Sheerman insisted that women are more
intelligent than men, and said that the government should not become
"obsessed" with boys failing in school. "We should celebrate this, shouldn't
we?" said Sheerman. "The brightest kids are coming through and they happen
to be women."
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Men are everywhere that matters!
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| | From: | connor_a at hotmail.com | | Subject: | Re: NOW Says Harvard President Lawrence Summers Should Resign | | Date: | 22 Jan 2005 15:18:28 -0800 |
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| Men will always be the moving targets to shoot down. At the end of the
day, genius is relegated to a select few men.
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| | From: | offl1ne | | Subject: | Re: NOW Says Harvard President Lawrence Summers Should Resign | | Date: | Sat, 22 Jan 2005 21:57:10 -0000 |
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"MCP" wrote in message
news:2epId.32559$vC1.16860@fe3.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
> http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/newswire/news2005/0105/012105-now-lawrence-summers-resign.htm
>
>
> The National Organization for Women has called for the resignation of
> Harvard University President Lawrence Summers.
> Summers offended feminists last week when he suggested that "innate"
> differences in men and women may help explain why men dominate math,
> sciences and engineering.
>
> But according to NOW, the long history of male domination in these fields
> is
> attributable to "ism" and other social constructs.
>
> CALMING RUFFLED FEATHERS
> Summers, the former US Treasury Secretary from the Clinton administration,
> has offered a series of increasingly contrite apologies to those whose
> sensitivites were upset by his observations. In his third official
> apology,
> posted Wednesday night on the Harvard website, Summers insisted that he
> "deeply" regreted "the impact" of his comments.
>
> "Summers' suggestion that women are inferior to men in their ability to
> excel at math and science is more than an example of personal ism, it
> is
> a clue to why women have not been more fully accepted and integrated into
> the tenured faculty at Harvard since he has been president," said NOW
> President Kim Gandy in a press release.
>
> PRESSURE FOR POLITICAL PROMOTIONS
> In their press release, NOW said they planed to begin "watching" Harvard
> University to make sure they promote women to faculty positions in math
> and
> science regardless of their ability: "Will Harvard encourage women as
> students in the 'hard' sciences, promote more women in faculty positions,
> and step up the recruitment of women for teaching positions in math and
> science departments? Or will Harvard be thwarted in achieving these goals
> with Summers at the helm?"
>
> UNFORGIVABLE IDEAS
> "Apologies are not enough," said Gandy. "Summers must go, and Harvard must
> start with a clean slate."
>
> GIRLS SMARTER THAN BOYS
> In a related story, in Britain, Minister of Parliament and Chairman of the
> Commons Educational Committee Barry Sheerman insisted that women are more
> intelligent than men, and said that the government should not become
> "obsessed" with boys failing in school. "We should celebrate this,
> shouldn't
> we?" said Sheerman. "The brightest kids are coming through and they happen
> to be women."
amazing isn't it?
One man can say that and be condemned for it - but a woman - a politician at
that can blatantly blanket men & boys as being inferior and suffer NO
consequence whatsoever. Amazing!!!
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> Men are everywhere that matters!
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>
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| | From: | krp | | Subject: | Re: NOW Says Harvard President Lawrence Summers Should Resign | | Date: | Sun, 23 Jan 2005 13:52:19 GMT |
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"offl1ne" wrote in message
news:41f2cc3c$1_4@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com...
>>
>> The National Organization for Women has called for the resignation of
>> Harvard University President Lawrence Summers.
>> Summers offended feminists last week when he suggested that "innate"
>> differences in men and women may help explain why men dominate math,
>> sciences and engineering.
Good God _ NEVER tell a Feminazi that men and women have ANY differences!
Gloria Steinem couldn't stand the shock to be told women don't have a penis!
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| | From: | dennis6449 at yahoo.com | | Subject: | Re: NOW Says Harvard President Lawrence Summers Should Resign | | Date: | 23 Jan 2005 07:25:46 -0800 |
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| Unless it's convenient for them --- remember the book "Reviving
Ophelia"? It looked at learning differences between boys and girls and
concluded girls were being short-changed in the middle school years.
THEN it was OK to cite differences.
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