One in Three Women is Illiterate

Sometimes the statement men are better than women leaves me wanting a little more in the flavor of substance. It’s not often. Like all men, the shortcomings of women are something I’ve learned to accept and move on. However, occasionally we men need to re-evaluate. We need more than rational hypothesizing and logical conjecture. We need facts for the why’s and how’s.

I pose this as a formal theory. Men are better than women at everything because something like 30% of women are illiterate.

Sounds shocking doesn’t it? But really, when do women need to read? Numbers don’t count as reading, so illiteracy does not impede women from writing checks or measuring all the progress they’re not making while they’re not working out at the gym.

Before I get too ahead of myself let me quote some statistics. UNICEF and UNESCO say that two out of every three illiterates is a woman. They give the world-wide feminine literacy rate in the sixtieth percentile, while the male literacy rate towers above that number at nearly 90%. I think you’ll agree that that’s plenty of numerical majesty to spare.

Initially, when I saw the figures I thought to myself, maybe that’s why women are so shitty at everything. Just like the kid who is really shitty at baseball and then it turns out he just needed some glasses. Maybe women just need to learn how to read.

Then I realized the writing on the walls of every cluster fuck women are about to step into is only metaphorical writing. They also don’t need to be able to read to shut the hell up every once in a while and listen when something other than Oprah or an appliance that resembles Oprah is dispensing sound life advice.

Perhaps instead of Easy Bake Ovens and Barbie Dolls this Christmas, mothers should be buying their daughters Hooked on Phonics.

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Comment by Necroswordsman
2007-07-15 14:49:09

Correctly typed: ‘The president of (insert country) said my dress makes me look fat. Let’s nuke them’.

 
Comment by Necroswordsman
2007-07-15 14:48:13

WOmen rule said:

Women are better at reigning in impulses.

Impulses? Like ‘Let’s declare war on that country because we’ve never had war with them’ or ‘The president of said my dress makes me look fat. Let’s nuke him’.

 
Comment by Doubt
2007-07-15 14:27:53

WOmen rule said:

Women are better at reigning in impulses.

HAHAHAHAHA, fuck you, cunt!

 
Comment by WOmen rule
2007-07-15 00:05:29

Women are better at reigning in impulses.

 
Comment by WOmen rule
2007-07-15 00:04:19

because of mans’ foolish pride, we have wars.

 
Comment by WOmen rule
2007-07-15 00:02:29

how can one measure the ideals that man is better than woman, other than opinion and theory? What about TRUE facts? What if you were a woman? You dare disrespect the very mother that brought you into this world? wow, well men, we dont need you, we can clone and we have the organs in which to cary the embryo. we can create colonies that are perfect and control the world, umblemished by MANS’ flaws

 
Comment by WOmen rule
2007-07-14 23:58:23

Men are better than women at everything because something like 30% of women are illiterate.
ok, something like 30%? why dont you find the exact number fuck hole?

 
Comment by WOmen rule
2007-07-14 23:57:05

3 out of five men are working shitty jobs and getting wasted, nevermind they dropped out of school.

 
Comment by Doubt
2007-07-14 23:10:17

jerry said:

If you are going to tell a lie by saying that “one in three women is illiterate” you should at least use correct grammar.

I’m sorry, let me just straighten this out for you. Facts are facts, and that is no lie. As for the grammar part, let me just fix this thing up for you:

If you are going to claim that “one in TWO women is [singular] illiterate,” you should at least use correct grammar.

Sorry, just had to get that straight. Nonetheless, it still proves beyond doubt that you are a lying, hypocritical whore.
Congratulations on backing up yet another fact about shorties.

 
Comment by Necroswordsman
2007-07-12 09:52:15

wolfe said:

If you are what you say you are, you urgently need help. Stop posting here, however enjoyable the attention seems, and seek help rather than attention.

-wolfe

This is also a reason why I made the forum thread. Because she does not other about the deepness of your alias.

 
Comment by wolfe
2007-07-12 08:59:44

@Jess in the unlikely event you are really an 11-year-old, you need to get off the net immediately and go talk to one of your parents if you have a warm relationship with them. Failing that, you need to talk to a trusted teacher or guidance counselor. Failing that, talk to a policeman.

If you are what you say you are, you urgently need help. Stop posting here, however enjoyable the attention seems, and seek help rather than attention.

-wolfe

 
Comment by Jess
2007-07-12 08:31:49

wolfe wolfe wolfe. I like that name. By any chance do ya like wolves they are ma fave animal

 
Comment by wolfe
2007-07-12 08:25:16

@Moo the site you link is laughable. Here’s an example of its ‘logic’:

Women score lower on IQ tests

False: While the average scores on standardized IQ tests for males (as a group) tend to be slightly higher than for females, the difference is negligible.

Ah, so uh… men score higher than women on IQ tests, and, even if it’s negligibly so, the statement ‘women score lower on IQ tests’ is false.

Yeah.

The facts?

Men have about a 5-6 point advantage on standardized IQ tests as compared to women. Yes, that is small. Men are much better at being brilliant (much, much better) and also much much better at being fantastically inept.

Men are more exceptional (good and bad) than women.

It is risible to suggest that one particular random man is more intelligent than one particular random woman, and I’ve been privileged to know a good many intelligent women in my life. But as a group? Yes. Men are smarter than women. Spectacularly so at the top end.

(Men are also probably spectacularly dumber than women at the bottom end, though the science isn’t totally clear on this).

Feeble-minded illogical websites that try and suggest the converse are simply untrue.

-wolfe

 
Comment by wolfe
2007-07-12 08:17:02

jerry said:

If you are going to tell a lie by saying that “one in three women is illiterate” you should at least use correct grammar.

Jerry, you should really learn to read. This has been covered to tedium in this thread’s discussion. To recap, as a statistical percentage, Dick would indeed be incorrect in grammar. As a statement concerning one woman out of three women, Dick is entirely grammatically correct.

Wait.

diamatik just said it brilliantly, above.

If you are going to correct someone’s grammar, you should at least try not to cite proper syntax as being incorrect. “One in three women is illiterate” is correct, both factually and grammatically. You should google the term ‘prepositional phrase’

I’ve been out-wolfed.

Well done, old chap.

I see Jerry is calling necroswordsman out on punctuation. Does ‘Jerry’ really have so little time?

I do not even need to review the dispute to know that necroswordsman, whatever his faults, is entirely capable of using punctuation correctly. A sterling fellow.

-wolfe

 
Comment by Necroswordsman
2007-07-12 06:59:51

jerry said:

Hey, Necroswordsman, you should not have put a question mark.

Actually I should have because it was a question. Like ‘Maybe you could do this?

 
Comment by Moo
2007-07-12 06:40:49

http://www.megafoundation.org/Genius/GenderCognition.htm

.. Funny how the table of contents points to file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Gina%20Langan/My%20Documents/My% 20Webs/Archives/megafoundation-vlx/Ubiquity/index1_9

 
Comment by diamatik
2007-07-04 04:59:15

jerry said:

If you are going to tell a lie by saying that “one in three women is illiterate” you should at least use correct grammar.

If you are going to correct someone’s grammar, you should at least try not to cite proper syntax as being incorrect. “One in three women is illiterate” is correct, both factually and grammatically. You should google the term ‘prepositional phrase’ and then learn the proper subject-verb agreement when a preposition (such as ‘in’) is used in a sentence, and then come back here and apologise for your ignorance.

Please recall the adage:

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt

 
Comment by jerry
2007-07-04 00:00:29

Necroswordsman said:

Gabriella LaPlace said:

what do you think of your mothers? what would you do if you had a daughter?

Hey, Gabriella, try using proper punctuation and maybe a capital letter or two? This is what the article is about.

Hey, Necroswordsman, you should not have put a question mark.

 
Comment by jerry
2007-07-03 23:58:02

If you are going to tell a lie by saying that “one in three women is illiterate” you should at least use correct grammar.

 
Comment by son of the suns
2007-06-26 11:52:33

Throw them off a cliff.

 
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