PeterS

AUSTIN, Texas — American Enterprise Institute scholar Charles Murray- who is an educational advisor to Republican governor candidate Greg Abbott, told an audience at the University of Texas this week that there is no “evidence” showing that any woman has ever been a “significant original thinker.” He then said the reason for this was the smaller size of the female brain.

“When you compare the size of a man’s brain with that of a woman, there’s no comparison,” explained Murray. “It’s not that I have anything against women. They’re nice enough, but it’s just a physical fact that their brains have developed to the same degree that men’s brains have developed.”


“I’m not a doctor,” he added, “but it may have something to do with their need to develop breasts. The human body can’t do everything.”

His comments came as he was defending his assertions in a 2005 paper that women have not played significant roles in the field of philosophy. He argued that he could only recall a single female philosopher, “and she was not a significant thinker in the estimation of historians of philosophy. Until somebody gives me evidence to the contrary, I’ll stick with that statement.”

Murray went on to blame what he called the less-impressive female brain for women making less money than men. He argued that equal pay laws would hurt women because, “You don’t pay the same at the pump for regular and supreme,” he said. “Why would you expect to pay the same for the work of a less-developed intellect?”

Asked by reporters if he agreed with his advisor’s views, Abbott, who is running for governor against Texas State Senator Wendy Davis, stuck with his man. “Charles is a smart guy,” he said. “If he says women are inferior than men, who are we to argue?”

http://politicalo.com/texas-republican-candidate-for-governor-claims-women-have-smaller-brains/

I posted this one because I thought it funny and soooooo typically conservative...

hprinze Loc: Central Florida

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Quees don't like women

S. Maturin

So? No issue.

Try to understand; "It's not the size of the wand that puts the rabbit in the hat, it's the magic of the beholder".

Here: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-brain-size-doesnt-correlate-with-intelligence-180947627/

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

This is another example of insanity; "I am not a Doctor - but here is my medical opinion". How crazy is that? This dufus is not alone, there is a plethora of lunacy out there and unfortunately, much of it finds it's way into positions of leadership and power.

Hiring bureaucrats and politicians to oversee and set policy for scientific agencies. Would we tolerate hiring a psychologist or a biologist as Attorney General, or as a Federal judge? Why then do we tolerate hiring non scientists to manage scientific organizations, such as the EPA, CDC, USDA, FDA, ect.?

Would we be ok with nurses writing criminal statutes, or Doctors writing civil law? Why then do we tolerate politicians writing legislation determining medical practice, often in defiance of the recommendations of Doctors and Nurses?

We are all stark raving mad and have gotten used to and compliant with all kinds of lunacy.

no propaganda please Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun

While the statement from Abbott was moronic, there are major differences in size and structure of male and female brains

Differences in Male and Female Brain Structure
Their brains may be different, but they'll likely reach the same conclusion.
Their brains may be different, but they'll likely reach the same conclusion.
Jamie Grill/IGetty Images

Scientists have known for a while now that men and women have slightly different brains, but they thought the changes were limited to the hypothalamus, the part of the brain that controls sex drive and food intake. A few scientists may have admitted that men's brains were indeed bigger, but they would have tried to qualify this finding by telling you that it was because men were bigger. Because brain size has been linked with intelligence, it's very tricky to go around saying that men have bigger brains. Yet men do seem to have women beat here; even when accounting for height and weight differences, men have slightly bigger brains. Does this mean they're smarter? Let's keep going.

In 2001, researchers from Harvard found that certain parts of the brain were differently sized in males and females, which may help balance out the overall size difference. The study found that parts of the frontal lobe, responsible for problem-solving and decision-making, and the limbic cortex, responsible for regulating emotions, were larger in women [source: Hoag]. In men, the parietal cortex, which is involved in space perception, and the amygdala, which regulates sexual and social behavior, were larger [source: Hoag].

The book "Why Gender Matters" goes into the differences in detail. It also states that, except for the genetic abnormalities in a minute portion of me which give them an extra x chromosome male brains in those who believe they are female are like any other male brain, and female brains of those females who believe they are male, are just like any other female brain. The book is worth reading, but I cannot remember the author.

boatbob2

Ah Huh,all of you idiotic morons,that think women are intellectually inferior,to us men,go tell that to your wife or girlfriend,and you will end up in a battle royal,that would make those people that watch a cage match fight, die laughing,while you get the ass beating of your life.......

teabag09

I'd compare your brain to Ayn Rands. Mike