1794Battles of wits/unarmed opponents/I give up.

Dec. 19, 2003

 

 

Actually, I think my opponent thinks she's armed, but is actually
carrying a styrofoam model rather than an actual weapon. Ah well.

someone on the livejournal 'childfree' community
posted this article:

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/scitech/SciTechRepublish_898675.htm

Gee, do you think that's why whatsisname had to quit
Mensa? had babies and lost IQ points?

I'm having a stupid flame-ish thing on the LJ CF group
comments on this article, someone thinks I'm a "raving
hardcore feminist" because of my comments on the
article, and refuted my ire with a *hypothetical*
situation, that *if true*, would make me look like an
idiot. *laughing* And then typoed as s/he was mocking
my spelling of 'wimmin', which I did for effect in my
comment, not because that's how I really spell it.
Sarcasm is so wasted on people like that.

http://www.livejournal.com/community/childfree/2142351.html



The post that started it:

thespookymod
Umm... did you even read the article -- or read past the subject
header to the post?

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Re: Why is this news?
bramblekite
2003-12-19 12:12 (link)
Indeed I did. And apparently, if you read the article hard enough,
the reason certain men are geniuses is because of their high levels
of testosterone. Which leaves us little wimmin out of it altogether.
This article offends on so many levels, I just picked the first one
that jumped out at me.

I am wondering if there was some kind of 'control' group that didn't
get married/spawn. If Genius and Testosterone are as linked as the
article posits, then "losing ones genius" should just be a symptom of
aging rather than a settling-down thing.

(I am going to have some serious fucking nightmares about your icon,
btw.)
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Re: Why is this news?
thespookymod
2003-12-19 12:24 (link)
What's so offensive about the idea of a link between genius and
testosterone?

Think about it:

hypothetical/

Women who are of genius-level intelligence are less prone to the
desire to bare children. There is a link between dominant levels of
estrogen and the desire to bare children. It is discovered that women
who don't desire children, regardless of intelligence, also have more
dominant levels of testosterone than women who do desire children.
Coincidentally, there are more genius-level women with dominant
levels of testosterone.

/hypothetical

In the even that this may be proven fact, you'll look like an idiot
with your feminazi jargon.

While i'm at it, I think thee's a link between hardcore-feminism and
idiocy. Case in point, most hardcore feminists forget how to spell as
soon as the disease affects their brains.
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Re: Why is this news?
bramblekite
2003-12-19 12:30 (link)
you think "thee's a link," eh?

heh.

I like you. You so funny.
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Dance for me, my puppet!
thespookymod
2003-12-19 13:18 (link)
you think "thee's a link," eh?

heh.

I like you. You so funny.

TRANSLATION:

You dared me to think?

damn...

I'm stuck on trying to make a retort. I think i'll try to be
condescending and hope it makes me look smrt. oops, forgot to spell-
check. fuck it, nobody's going to notice.