Win $50 During Female Literacy Month
I get countless emails and comments from irate women bemoaning my spelling and grammar. What the fuck do irate women know about spelling and grammar? Compared to other genders, female literacy rates are appallingly low. That’s why I’m taking it upon myself to declare June “Female Literacy Month�? and offer the following incentive for women to improve their abysmal spellsmanship.
As of July 1st 12 noon, the woman who finds the most spelling mistakes on this website, made by yours truly, will be given her choice of $50 or I will purchase a video game for a starving child. I’ll leave the choice up to her, so I think we all know which she’s going to pick.
Women are so fucking selfish.
Maybe female illiteracy is why women can’t figure out how to use birth control. To women, “Take one pill every day,” looks like, “Take a handful of pills every few days and believe in Jesus.” Well Jesus isn’t a big fan of birth control so fuck you. If women could read The Bible, they would know that.
I haven’t made a single spelling error on this site. Manjoyment, mantivities, and mangasm aren’t misspelled words. If I see them in a submission, it is automantically disqualified. There are also more rules.
Female Literacy Month Rules
1. All submissions must be emailed to me no later than July 1st, noon GMT.
2. All words must be accompanied by the URL on which they appear.
3. In case of a tie, the earliest submission is the winner.
4. Lists with correctly spelled words will be disqualified.
5. Italicized words and words with “man�? in them are not misspelled and will be disqualified.
6. Since women don’t know how to use dictionaries, a man is allowed to verify the misspelled words, but not help find them.
7. All participants must be under 190 pounds for liability purposes. I don’t want to get any of you fatties so excited your hearts explode.
8. The choice of a selfish $50 or a video game for a starving child must be clearly marked in the submission.
9. The video game might be Gears of War, but it also might be Nintendogs.
Like when it comes to fighting for peace in the Middle East or apologizing for spilling my beer all over my pants last weekend, I expect women to be a no show on this one.
UNESCO statistics on women and their rampant illiteracy.
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June 4th, 2007 at 7:12 am - IP Man-Hash: a13ba81333017
Plato, Aristotle, Epictetus, Homer, Plutarch, Virgil, Malory, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Bacon, Chaucer, Smith, Darwin, Grimm, Mill, Alighieri, Arouet, Pascal, Berkley, Descartes, Rousseau, Hobbes, Locke, Milton, Burke, Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, von Clausewitz, Goethe, Emerson, Webster, Clemens, Burns, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Yeats, Beowulf, Chanson de Roland, 1001 nights, Scott, James, Hawthorne, Hugo, Tolstoy, Dosteoevsky, and he whose writings I’m currently enjoying, Marcus Aurelius.
Just off the top of my head. Or if you’re more for something light, try A. Conan Doyle. His non-Holmes stuff can be quite amusing.
Or something I know SotS enjoyed — Herodotus. (see Thermopylae)
Sadly, there is too little difference between he who will not read and she who cannot read.
Curiously, most of what survives (with some exceptions) has little to do with that. There is more in this world than the sub-luminal speed of blaster bolts introduced by Mr. Lucas.
Best,
-wolfe
June 4th, 2007 at 10:34 am - IP Man-Hash: 20d257fe27619
I have to admit I’ve honestly never read any book about the 300 or Greece at all. Actually, the first time I learned about it was from some vague episode honoring the 300 Spartans in an American cartoon called “Samari Jack”.
June 4th, 2007 at 1:22 pm - IP Man-Hash: 980cc8a8ac1a7
The Jane Eyre and likewise epic fiction is what I actually had in mind. Pardon my ambiguity.
I’d much sooner dispense with a copy of that (or the entire Republican party and the vast majority of the democratic party) than a translated copy of The Metamorphosis, for instance. Even though they’re both available gratis online through the Gutemberg project.
Lucas is hardly what I would call the epitome of literary genius (his cinematography is an altogether different issue though neither his films are verily, the end all, be all of celluloid).
That said, I’m not even sure talent, beauty and the power to captivate and delight through the written word as well as other media and mediums are truly quantifiable.
Except when badgering unadulterated greed, corruption and gun ‘aficionados.’
Now, you wouldn’t happen to have a roll bar to spare, would you?
- Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride (Fatboy Slim mix)
June 4th, 2007 at 4:10 pm - IP Man-Hash: c46011aeb3b2a
I know it wasn’t your intent to disparage cartoons or graphic novels, but I think visual media is great for getting people who ordinarily wouldn’t pick up a book interested in reading, particularly history.
It’s certainly NOT a good idea to get all of your information from movies or graphic novels. For example, “Amadeus” was a beautifully crafted movie, and while there was a guy named Mozart who was at times a self-destructive genius, much of the movie was invented to enhance the drama.
I was familiar with the Battle of Thermopylae in high school (unfortunately I was a real book geek back than, and it hasn’t gotten much better since then), but my sons showed me the Frank Miller graphic novel. Utterly fantastic. If that’s their introduction to the story, then I’m happy they know it and are interested in it. Those of us old enough to remember “Classics Illustrated” would know that’s just the next logical extension of it.
June 6th, 2007 at 2:01 am - IP Man-Hash: b5145ad6de597
Doubt, I’m responding to your post way at the beginning of this post. You are obviously too lazy to actually investigate the facts.
Go to the National Center for Education Statistics to confirm that what I said was 100% correct.
You’ll see that site’s homepage applauds that fact that women dominate both in numbers of students doing high-school final exams, and in undergraduate enrollment, with pictures of a smiling happy female face and an ever-growing share of the Higher Education pie:
Which is no less than what we should expect from the socialist shithole Government and country that the USA is. A Government which puts women first and does not care about men. But don’t worry, you’re not alone, all Western countries are this way. All countries led by the UN (which is itself an arm of worldwide feminism) are this way.
But let’s look at the statistics for 2005, shall we, Doubt?
That is quite vast and means men are outnumbered and on average, disadvantaged going forward in their lives.
At that rate, it’s likely that in 11 years time that will have jumped by more than 2% which the NCES predicts, which would bring the percentage of incoming University students to 60% female. It’s likely that it will be 62-63% by then. And remember that when it reaches 66% - there are twice the number of women to men.
See here for a 1971-2006 trend of University enrollments by gender:
Now let’s look at high-school in the US:
To show that it is an international phenomenon let’s look at school-leavers and college enrollments in Scotland, briefly:
You were saying, Doubt?
They are just raw statistics that speak volumes; they’re not bullshit or manipulated. The Government Office relating to Educational Statistics are not “shit-brained pseudo-intellectuals” (or perhaps you should have said “biased feminist groups” it would have been more descriptive); they simply compile statistics.
On its homepage, yes, you can see it’s following the UN agenda by adopting “policies and programmes that will raise the status of girls and women” - it applauds the fact that men are under-represented in third-level. But go to the raw stats pages, which I did, and you can reach your own conclusions.
We all know that your Government and Governments worldwide prioritise girls so that more finish school and go to college, but that’s not what we’re arguing here. I know that State schools throughout Western socialist countries are doing nothing for boys.
I want you to accept the fact that, however it came to be, there are 2 million more women going into and graduating from University every year, and there are 1.7 million more girls doing SATs.
So get your facts straight Doubt. We can talk causes also but you must actually deal with the consequences of the numbers as they stand today, and you must be aware of them, which I suspect you are not fully.
Women in the West are more literate, more educated and better poised to live prosperous lives than men. That’s the reality.
June 6th, 2007 at 10:19 am - IP Man-Hash: 4555637db20cf
Spot on, Female. You’ve surely shown me the light. My goodness, it is amazing how right you are, indeed. Your arguments are so well thought out and articulated that I must concur with you completely.
1. Trollope’s novel The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw: or Scenes on the Mississippi (1836) was directly responsible to the abolition of slavery, and had more of an effect than the paltry efforts of meaningless people such as Josiah Wedgwood (who merely formed the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade and also produced the Abolition Society’s seal which showed a black slave in chains, kneeling, his hands lifted up to heaven with the motto read: “Am I Not a Man and a Brother?”).
2. That must be true. After all, it was a novel, and not something silly like a commission of inquiry or a report of some sort. Works of fiction always cause more for reform than cursory things like facts. Don’t believe me? Then refer to Dan Brown and his Da Vinci Code, which is certainly not full of shit.
3. If this is true, then Fanny was not the person responsible for the suffering of men and the destruction of virtue in women of the West. After all, that act didn’t turn men into financial slaves and women into irresponsible slutty whores who can sleep around while leaving the man with the financial consequences.
Hurrah!
June 6th, 2007 at 1:23 pm - IP Man-Hash: 83b7e402ade4c
These same women graduate college.. then spit out a kid and turn into a housewife and enjoy doing minimal work for the rest of their lives while their husband kills himself to make money for his family.
June 6th, 2007 at 1:53 pm - IP Man-Hash: 497a2bd14e918
So many more women than men graduating from school and it’s men that do more with their education, accomplish more and become more prosperous.
What’s your explanation for that?
June 6th, 2007 at 4:04 pm - IP Man-Hash: 3e4fe6a7e6d7d
LOL women > men at sarcasm.
I’m sorry, did you think I was saying that Fanny was solely responsible for the legislation? Poor man, if only boys weren’t discrimnated so much in higher education, perhaps you would have understood that I did not specifically state that she bought about the end of the slave trade. I merely said that her writing he may have influenced it, and if you have a problem with that argument, perhaps you should take it to the encyclopaedia (not Wiki!!) that I quoted from and criticise the academics who wrote the piece. As well as any of their peers with PhDs who reviewed the text before it was disseminated in a subscription encyclopaedia on the internet.
Some people say the Bible is a novel but that doesn’t change the fact that many people live their lives according to it and that entire societies have values founded upon the tenents it contains. I haven’t read the Da Vinci code but unless you have personally visited the Vatican archives and have some kind of theological training you perhaps know not what you say. On the fact that her book provoked a riot, who knows, I would think that the people who would have been more likely to riot would have come from the largely illiterate classes, so then how could they have read the book? But then I’m not the person with the PhD that you should perhaps be taking this point up with. Wait one minute and I’ll find the encyclopaedia’s phone number for you.
Are you aware that a woman can have sex just once, with one man, and fall pregnant? And that there are such things as coercian and rape? Being a slut doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with having an illegitimate child (though society doesn’t like this when it happens so it makes up a slur against women having sex outside marriage by proclaiming they must sleep with lots of men and thus be called sluts)
Of course, you are entirely right, the retraction of the Bastardy clause certainly didn’t create fearful, irresponsible men who refuse to acknowledge and provide for their offspring, these kind of men have existed for millenia, what the retraction really did was try to give protection to women (and infants, don’t forget, or would you prefer the baby to be dumped on the street?) unlucky enough to have been impregnated by a selfish git. And I say try, because even if a law exists to tell people how they should behave, that doesn’t necessarily mean they are going to, and hence, we still have deadbeat dads. Just now we also have DNA testing so lying and/or denying is a little more difficult for a man to do now.
June 6th, 2007 at 7:36 pm - IP Man-Hash: 33b64bce6a7d6
Nope. You’re wrong, little girl. Women in the west like you need to be knocked down a peg or two for trying to control what your betters think and do. I know I am better than you, and it infuriates you that you type line after line of feminazi bullshit copied-and-pasted straight from the feminazi pamphlets they hand out.
Hmm… where did I hear that bullshit before? Oh, fucking-A, the Nazis. You are a fascist, you stupid little whore, who just can’t get her way because god gave her a vagina, a tiny pitiful frame, a smaller inferior female mind, and a vagina. Those are all straight undoctered facts. You don’t have to crunch (warp to your own means) any numbers to find that out. Modern education is a sham, and whores and bitches are given degrees.
You are a stupid whore. Anyone who thinks as you do is a stupid whore. Oops, all that typing gone to waste. So sad.
Girls - 0, Men - 999999999999999999999999.
June 6th, 2007 at 8:06 pm - IP Man-Hash: b5145ad6de597
Quantify what you are saying. Most men don’t do any more with a high-school or college degree than women. There are double the number of men unemployed to women (i.e. 5% to 10%), which would suggest that you are flat-out wrong.
In this sort of thing the numbers really mattter. When you are churning out 8 million women from college every year, and 2 million more than men, it is impossible for that not to have consequences. Remeber too that most employers are required to discriminate against men of the same age as the female applicant and with the same qualifications.
A man can lose millions through a divorce case, effectively handing over a huge amount of money to a woman, and for men doing average jobs they become slaves to the State and lose their prosperity. This is arisk that hangs over all men throughout their lives. It never happens to women. Care to comment on that? That divorce case could and probably will negate all the accomplishments he achieved through education and hard work.
I think you’ll find that people who qualify is specialist area such as law and medicine tend to become big earners. This applies whether they are men or women. If however, they are qualified in a more generic area and decide to work in a more generic job, then they will earn less and be less prosperous. Anyone without a college education fairs less well, and anyone that does not even complete high-school has a massive uphill battle against him. Therefore with 1.7 million less high-school graduates and 2 million less college enrollments/qualifications per year, the 3.7 million women who did make it to that level of education will almost invariably achieve more, earn more and live a more prosperous life.
I think, basically, you are not comparing like-with-like and you haven’t grasped the socio-ecnoomics of educational attainment. You’ve not provided a single example. I can tell you though that every President the USA had has been highly educated, as are all CEOs of big companies.
Yes there are a huge number of women who do this: marry after getting a University degree, divorce him and the use him as an economic slave with the assistance of the Courts and the State.
I cannot say that overall women do not make use of their degrees once they have a child. They continue to be employed. On average, more women with degrees get employed than men.
June 6th, 2007 at 8:07 pm - IP Man-Hash: b5145ad6de597
This goes under the euphemism of “quotas” and “affirmative (positive) action”.
June 6th, 2007 at 10:07 pm - IP Man-Hash: 3e4fe6a7e6d7d
Doubt, why are you arguing with anonymous when he or she is arguing that men are discriminated against. I would have thought you may have been in agreement with someone arguing for the male side. But as you are not, I guess we can infer you are therefore a feminist. Must be a case of vagina envy.
June 7th, 2007 at 12:59 am - IP Man-Hash: b5145ad6de597
[blockquote]Doubt, why are you arguing with anonymous when he or she is arguing that men are discriminated against.[/blockquote]
He actually. And MRA too.
I can’t fathom why Doubt thinks I am talking “feminazi bullshit copied-and-pasted straight from the feminazi pamphlets they hand out”. You may be inclined to think that I did copy-and-paste but in I just presented the data that way using the blockquote function because it is easier to read.
I have provided links to all my sources and they are not “feminazi pamphlets” but official statistics agencies from the American and Scottish Government. They are properly compiled, raw statistics from which you can draw your own conclusions. They merely illustrate the number of people at second- and third-level.
If I quoted from a Feminazi source it would provide bogus reasons for this massive gender gap, applaud it and still point out some area where women are “victims” and the Government should step in to allow them to can gain more supremacy.
Doubt, if you think that 1.7 million extra girls finishing high-school, and 2 million more girls enrolling in/graduating from university is an important statistic, fine. This is not about the feminist US Government doing social engineering to reach that, or even why that has come about, it is about the reality - in numbers - of secondary and high education as it stands today.
I happen to think that figure of 3.7 women being educated to a far greater level is of great importance. It will predict how future society will be arranged, it predicts future socio-economic trends. It will predict who will be masters and slaves.
I think we should all be aware of these vital statistics and not delude ourselves with the idea that most women are illiterate or educationally disadvantaged. Or, delude ourselves that men are more educated than women. It’s simply not true.
June 7th, 2007 at 1:03 am - IP Man-Hash: b5145ad6de597
* 3.7 million women being educated to a far greater level
* 2 million more girls enrolling in/graduating from university isn’t an important statistic, fine
June 7th, 2007 at 1:47 am - IP Man-Hash: 3e4fe6a7e6d7d
I am glad you said that it isn’t about social engineering but I would be interested to know exactly how many of the numbers you have quoted of women enrolling in university were offered a university place based on merit as opposed to affirmative action or quotas. Surely this elusive statistic would settle whether the majority of women are being given handouts or whether they are gaining entry based on superior intelligence.
And yes, I do realise that the % of enrolments by gender would vary across programs of study, so it would also be interesting to know the gender ratio of enrolments by degree program. Some may say that even if more women than men are entering university, 80% of medical students are men, while 80% of students in humanities are women, thus, trying to prove some kind of superior vs inferior point.
June 7th, 2007 at 2:11 am - IP Man-Hash: 33b64bce6a7d6
And yet men still outclass girls in every great accomplishment.
I don’t know where you got your numbers, but they are just numbers. The reason little girls can get into college is the quota system. A quota says 2 million more girls must graduate from universities? Well Congradu-fucking-lations on having a vagina. I wonder how much thought it took for you to have one?
Basically, female, on one side, anonymous here is arguing that:
Girls are a superior race.
On the other side I am arguing:
Girls are not a superior race.
Don’t get your little head all mixed up about it, okay? You’ve been proven wrong so many times, just sit back and let the big people put your sister back in her place.
Let’s look at history:
How many great girl inventors have there been? Wow, even I have to strain my mind to think of a few. Statistics state that a few girls can overcome their gifts of inferiority to make something of value… but there are so many more men. It’s not because gurls were ‘discriminated against,’ it was because men wear the pants in this world and they still do.
And why is it a man’s world?
Because men built the world. It’s not perfect and does not have a nail salon and strip mall at every street corner, but if you don’t like it, why don’t you and a few of your sisters camp out in the desert and try to build an entire civilization, technology and culture, from scratch?
June 7th, 2007 at 2:13 am - IP Man-Hash: 33b64bce6a7d6
And if girls are superior, why do they need an anti-male slant in the education system to push them ahead? There should be an anti-female slant to actually chalenge our bright little flip-flop clad genious-whores!
June 7th, 2007 at 2:53 am - IP Man-Hash: b5145ad6de597
I didn’t say girls are superior, Doubt. I merely stated that there are 3.7 million females who are more educated than males in our society.
June 7th, 2007 at 8:15 am - IP Man-Hash: 83b7e402ade4c
WHAT?
To quote in a language you women understand:
“Truly, Truly OUTRAGEOUS!” -Jem of Jem and the Holograms