By Indirections

find directions out--   Herein lies a feminist rant, which achieved the opposite of its goal, at least in my case:   http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/opinion/09hirshman.html?_r=1   She wished to persuade us of the worthiness of women workers, of the contribution they might make to Obama's job program, and of the necessary justice of a tilt in its balance. However, she only succeeded in reminding me how little the female side of the ledger really adds to the economic numbers. For example, men invent virtually everything--and do almost all the difficult and dangerous work. The vast majority of women, whatever their formal titles may be, function as (mostly overpaid) babysitters, nurses, and secretaries. Now, which sex do you think clawed its way out of the Stone Age--and which one continues to propel the economy, and not only the economy, forward? All science, mathematics, technology was created and produced by men; also, all philosophies and religions and cultures, these great civilizing influences in history, were imposed upon the world by men. Women do not evidence the necessary levels of curiosity, ambition, passion, commitment, or talent to generate the major contributions in these areas. Is it possible then that they deserve equal compensation? But, wouldn't equal compensation, under such conditions, mean unequal treatment? "One law for the lion and the ox is not justice."   In the end, feminists have succeeded in reinventing misogyny--first, they deprive the female of half her charms, then they aggressively expose her to unfavorable comparisons with the opposite sex in an environment natural to him but not to her, and, finally, having diminished her strengths and emphasized her weaknesses, these deluded ideologues then want to claim for her a privilege she never possessed even in the past, before her power was foolishly squandered--equality? What? Do they think themselves illusionists to try to foist upon us ideas that betray both sense and reason?   And to think that the Republican party should have such weak and weak-witted enemies as these--and then suffer inglorious defeat to them--   Only the decadence of the age can explain such folly.