Capitol Hill Blue Forums Misc. Topics The Media "We scream, We Swoon, How Dumb Can We Get?"

It seems to me that there are much better ways to start a discussion than with an insult. If that really worked well, we'd see it used as an opening gambit here at RR a lot more often, wouldn't we?

You wrote "One might say that it is dumb to expect politicians not to lie.... you have separately said almost as much. "

I went back and looked at that thread; the closest thing I could find was "My point being that it's as foolish to believe one candidate's campaign to be clean as is it to excoriate another's for being 'dirty.'" That's saying two things are equally foolish; it's not calling a group of human beings "dumb."

If you were referring to something else, please let me kmow and I'll look at it, and edit it if it's truly insulting.

You said: "I think she was saying that some behaviours are dumb." Some behaviours ARE dumb. But she didn't say the behaviours were dim, though - she said "way down deep, we are...kinda dim." (emphasis mine)

You also say the article "did not intend to demean women." (I'm trying to get it right this time.)

Let me remind you of her closing paragraph:

Most of the women I know, I also like, and respect. They don't fit this pattern. They are factory managers and accounts and software test designers and network designers and emergency docs and investment bankers. A couple are small-business owners. Some volunteer their time to other people. Many of them are also caretakers, of children or elderly parents. They are not dim.

That closing paragraph insults all of us - and it does so intentionally. I had forgotten just HOW insulting it was until I went back to look at it.