[extropy-chat] Harvard president criticized over comments

[Damien Broderick]

At 03:18 PM 1/18/2005 -0800, Mike Lorrey wrote:

>What is going on right now is that in elementary school and high
>school, the feminazi NEA

Just for the sake of civility, how about we adopt a moratorium for a year 
or so on cheap gibes like `feminazi', `hoplonazi' and other playground 
terms of abuse?

>is persecuting boys who refuse to act like
>girls with testicles.

Amazing morphological news: boys *are* girls with testicles.

Presumably Mike meant `act like boys *without* testicles'. As I dimly 
recall my own ancient schooldays, boys who did well at mathematics and 
science were mocked by other, usually more swaggering, boys as sissies, 
fairies, ball-less wonders, and so on. Certainly, advanced skill at 
mathematics--or learning of any kind outside of fixing cars--was not seen 
as evidence of testicles.

Damien Broderick