Mon. 12/07/02 18:58 EDT
.post #193
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I’ll give a kick.
In “Men are superior,” Adam Carolla says “I just don’t like it when we try to force this ‘everyone’s exactly the same’ mentality down everyone’s throat.” He goes on to give examples of the things men do better than women and the things women do better than men, and points out that instead of insisting that women and men are “the same,” we should embrace and appreciate the differences (“I sorta like the diversity part” are his words).
Then, in
Adam complains about women (@2:35)
he opines that a woman will sit on a sofa reading a women’s magazine featuring a beach in Negril and feel bad because she’s sitting on a sofa and not in Negril, whereas “(men) look at genocide in Rawanda pictures and we’re happy to be on our sofa.”
At 3:39, he rhetorically asks “How 'bout you broads pick up a textbook every once in a while? How 'bout you learn something about World War II? How 'bout you learn one god-damn thing about World War II?!”
This seems inconsistent with his earlier lip-service to the virtues of diversity. Would a woman who exhibits more “masculine” interests (such as conversance with war history, for example) really be more attractive to Carolla?
I think Christopher Hitchens makes some valid observations in this video:
Christopher Hitchens: Why Women Still Aren’t Funny
At 1:27 Hitchens says “…women don’t need to be funny. But for most men, if they can’t make women laugh, they’re out of the evolutionary contest; they’re never going to get laid (most men are fantastically unattractive). … With women, there’s no need to be rendering yourself attractive to men (by trying to be funny); we already find you attractive, thanks.”
By the same token, I don’t think women need to be rendering themselves attractive to men by, for example, boning up on war history. We already find you attractive, thanks (and we probably find you more attractive on a sunny beach than on the sofa discussing war history).
Oh Clayton, just a friendly correction: