Jamais trois sans quatre... (?)

I know I've been posting about this for the past three days, but I just can't get enough! Gender, anthropology and cross-cultural studies, all at once? Love it!

In addition to the article I keep linking to, John Tierney has a post up on his blog (the Tierney Lab Blog) on the topic. The post itself is essentially a paraphrasing of the "Findings" article, but the comments are pretty interesting. The vast majority are insightful and on-point, but the few truly dumb/insane ones are worth quoting:

So, does all this mean that if you answer the door and there’s a woman on the stoop dressed as a police officer with baton and cuffs in hand and a holstered pistol strapped to her waist you can still ask her for a date?

— John Brady

My… There are a lot of angry women out there stuck on all the ways life is unfair… I only wonder when a men’s movement will form to protest the injustices of education and preferential hiring and scholarship for women?

While this research may not be perfect, and like all research may leave more left unanswered than of seems to answer, I’m left feeling glad that despite the efforts of social engineering and feminism men and women are still maintaining some of their unique and special characteristics… maybe even emphasizing them! Could it possibly be that women’ salaries aren’t lower because of the evils of men, but because they took their positions for some other reason than money? Why should women get to be described with all the positive adjectives and get the same salaries as the aggressive and competitive males their forced to tolerate?

Women are women and men are men, for better or worse. As interesting as it is to explore and as enticing as it may be to change, we’re in the process of killing our planet and all the other beautiful forms of life on it… Can we turn our attention to that now?

— carver

What difference does it make? We’re all doomed. Have a nice day.

— Jagdish Collins

Possibly my favorite comment on ANY NYT blog, EVER :)