Me Am Woman, Hear Me "Duh"

I finished deconstructing the Charlotte Allen piece, in case anyone missed it. The finished version now contains my favorite bit, where she talks about all the "proof" that women are worse drivers than men (and therefore stupid)!

Interesting fact: this same Charlotte Allen also said that "Katrina was the best thing to happen to New Orleans because it finally opportunity to a huge number of New Orleans residents living in passive dependency on welfare to get out of New Orleans and change their lives for the better."

Sure, thousands died, but they were probably all freeloaders anyway, and thus will not be missed.

Also, interesting bit of synchronicity from current events here in Bloomington:

There is a building here at IU named the Ora L. Wildermuth Something Something. It's been named that for like forty years. Someone just noticed that, uh, Ora Wildermuth was maybe not the best person to name a school building after. Pulling from an article that mecha quoted:

[I]n the summer of 1948 [...] IU President Herman B Wells [...] requested from [Wildermuth] to spend $60,000 to build new dormitories for the “colored housing situation.”

Wildermuth responded to Wells by writing, “So few of them succeed and the average of the race as to intelligence, economic status and industry is so far below the white average that it seems to me futile to build up hope for a great future.”

Hey, Charlotte! Change a couple words there and it sounds like the perfect motto for you!

She could even get the altered version embroidered into a nice sampler to hang on the wall.

So few of them succeed and the average of the sex as to intelligence, economic status and industry is so far below the male average that it seems to me futile to build up hope for a great future.

I'd add in some cross-stitched hearts, except it's time to run off to school now.