Guys Vs Girls On The Sat

kateschmiddy
Thu, 24 Mar 2005 00:49:39 +0000

Ha Ha. Only person at my school going to MIT-girl, 1600 SAT, val. Top guys in my class-interested in pol sci. My boyfriend wants to be an engineer. My best girlfriend wants to go into politics. She got a 780 on the matIIC. He got a 740. She, 1570 SAT. He, 1390.

What the hell is the point of this?!? In the year 1600, women didn’t even have the option of higher education. Men would have been better at math AND literature back then, hardy har har! We must have evolved!!!

Come on, for intelligent people you sure aren’t thinking outside of the box on this one. It’s like everyone’s thinking “deep down we all know boys are smarter and better, but maybe if we argue that girls are equal we’ll have less guilty consciences and we’ll, you know, encourage them.”

Wake up and realize that just because we all want to keep believing in our “innate abilty” ******** that cultural bias IS THERE AND CAN’T BE IGNORED. Just because we like to believe in some “cold hard facts” doesn’t make it any less idiotic to pretend that “cultural stereotype” excuses are flimsy fabrications to hide the fact that really, women are just sorta stupid. It’s actually braver to realize that culture plays a larger role than genetics. I know, it’s so much easier to just say, sex determines destiny and brain power, so let’s give up! Honestly, do you WANT genetics to determine everything? Are you all so SATISFIED to sit there and spout repititious “facts” concerning “scientificlly proven brain differences” about which you know nothing?

Reasons OTHER than innate ability that are undeniable:

-I would be intimidated to go to a 75% male school if I were a mathematically gifted woman
-If I had the option of putting my effort into math or writing early on I would pick writing because I would see that women can have greater fame/success/influence that way
-boys play with toy guns and machines, girls with dolls
-boys are trained that if they are deficient in math they aren’t real men, which is a fate worse than death in our society
-when I have scored better/know more in math than Random Typical Boy, I am afraid to show it because it will hurt his pride
-boys are encouraged to Bull **** their own abilities to no end, making themselves sound better when they’re really just mediocre, which leads to POSTS LIKE THIS.

And those are way more factual than any “scientific studies of the female and male brains” PUH-LEEZE. Are we so pretentious that we believe we can come to complex scientific conclusions like this when we can’t even stop the ozone from going up in flames? Bad science to set about proving something you WANT to prove. Reminds me of Broca. Social darwinism should have died long ago.

The brain is no more gender specific than the kidneys.