Stupidity is a Sex-War issue !
There is a lot that can be said about this, and I have already written
something on this issue: See, for example, dumbfemi.html
, femathom.html and stupidt2.html.
Stupidity, with regard to logical reasoning, is something that I have
noticed particularly in the legal fraternity and in females -- which
makes it unsurprising that the legal fraternity is now increasingly
made up of women. It is this stupidity which allows women and the legal
fraternity to believe Feminist dogma without being appalled by its stupidity.
Below is a short, one-question questionnaire I passed out to students
of the International Trade Law class of the Victoria University of Wellington
Law Faculty in December 2004. Not only do the results of the questionnaire
demonstrate that almost 20% of the respondents are stupid, but the comments
written on this particular copy (as well as on some others) also demonstrate
the primitive mentality of some Law students -- probably the same 20%
!
Paul Zoubkov is a Leftist who had expressed the view in a previous
class (Jurisprudence) that he abhored anything written by me. Nevertheless,
I thought his presentation in International Trade Law class on how the
First World deliberately exploited the Third World quite plausible,
on the surface. I did not know anything about the issue, but was willing
to keep an open mind.
However, being a typical Leftist, he had to mouthe a platitude about
at least one other member of the Rainbow Coalition -- namely women.
All that he said about women (at the end of one section) was:
"There is evidence that women are more disadvantaged
than men in developing countries." (N.B. One respondent
suggested that he had said "Evidence suggests", rather than
"There is evidence", and this may well be true, but it is
irrelevant to my point.)
The breakdown of the 39 responses (there was not a large response in
proportion to the class as a whole) was:
a) |
7* |
18% |
b) |
22 |
56% |
c) |
3** |
8% |
d) |
7 |
18% |
My point is that merely to say that there is
evidence suggesting something, without stating the evidence and also
stating the counter-evidence, should not have any effect whatsoever
on one's belief about that issue -- especially in the case of Law students.
It was pleasing that 56% of respondents saw it that way.
However, the fact that almost 20% of the respondent Law students said
that that statement strengthened their belief ties in with such facts
as the following:
