Apparently men say they want women who are smarter than themselves...

Here's a study that should come as no surprise, concluding that men aren't attracted to women who are smarter than they are and women are attracted to men who are more powerful.

It's interesting to note that the men in the study are supposed to have said they wanted a woman who was more intelligent than themselves, which I find pretty far-fetched.  Most men I know want to be with a smart woman, but that doesn't automatically mean that she's got to be smarter than he does!

There's no surprise about women saying they don't care about status when they really do.  I can't remember how many women I was rejected by who "just wanted a nice guy" who'd then give me the usual excuses for why they didn't want to date.  I guess they meant "I just want a nice guy with a great job, awesome body and his own house", but that doesn't quite roll off the tongue.

Erin Brockovich is back defending women

So, Erin Brockovich is back, this time fighting for women who have been hurt and/or mislead by a birth control device sold them.

What she gets wrong is that men ONLY have two options of birth control (excluding abstinence, that's not birth control, that's just not having sex!) including condoms and vasectomy and reports about the side effects and possible complications of the latter is kept out of the media.  The world hasn't stopped, except for those poor men suffering from vasectomies gone wrong.  I wonder if there are 20,000 of them around the world, which maybe Brockovich will accept that, no, the world doesn't stop when men are in pain, we just don't get told about it.

The most promising birth control method for men in the last 50 years is Vasalgel, yet it's being strangely held back, yet this women's one is somehow able to get released despite these problems.  Interesting...

Woman violated on plane, media unsure how to proceed

So, here we have a case of a woman who took some sleeping drugs on a long-haul flight and woke to suspect that the man (of middle eastern appearance) sitting next to her had rubbed her all over (including supposedly 'downstairs').

The media was obviously caught between a rock and a hard place because, on the one hand they just NEED to point out what an evil man has done.  What they waited to report was that the accused man, Nadeem Mehmood Quraishi, was of middle eastern appearance.

If it had been a white male, then we would have known that from the title alone.

Daughter dies in accident, father 'killed' her, article declares

I came across this article about a poor family who lost their daughter, but the media, as usual, is only too happy to spin it that the father killed his daughter on purpose.

The language is very telling: "a father who killed his nine-year old daughter".

What's interesting to note is that the article only mentions the mother is passing, that she "slammed" the sentence.  Did she think the sentence was too harsh, too light?  Which was it?

I would guess that, since they both shared the same surname, that the couple are still married and that she doesn't believe her husband, who obviously engaged in risky behaviour, should go to jail for as long as he has been sentenced.

Remember, there are two reasons to send a person to jail: to punish and to rehabilitate.  On one hand, the father in this case possibly should be punished, but using the same line of logic that people argue about women who've lost their children due to their own mistakes, "isn't losing his daughter punishment enough"?

As for rehabilitation, firstly I doubt he'll want to even look at another buggy, let alone do anything similar, so I doubt that the probably of re-offending is very high.

So the taxpayers have to pay for this guy to sit in a cell to think about what he's done and his family has to find a way to cope without him for longer than a lot of violent and sexual offenders get sentenced to for purposely committing crimes.

Oh well, I guess that's just par for the course.

Man glassed in slut-shaming social experiment, let's focus on poor women

So, a guy who was glassed during a slut-shaming social experiment doesn't even rate a headline, yet another example of a woman pretending to be drunk to gauge men's reactions does.  I wonder if this one is fake like the Australian one was, where the men were told how to act before being shamed for doing what they were asked to do!

This is how schools give bad marks for right maths answers

I've always maintained that modern schooling has been trying to do to maths and sciences as they've done with English and other nebulous subjects where the 'right' answer is completely up to the teacher.  This one teacher has done just that in this case on the internet.

I always hated the whole "give marks for showing working out" because it penalises the people who have learnt their numbers well enough to know the answer as soon as looking at the question.  I was always losing out top score in maths to girls in my class because I didn't show the steps correctly.  One time, when I had had enough, I showed every possible step, only to lose marks for taking too many steps to 'find' the answer!

The teacher in question knew damn well that I could solve most problems at that age in a line or two (or straight away, but that was just asking to be marked down).

My marks shot up the year I had a male maths teacher whose rule was: "if you've got the right answer at the bottom of page, full marks.  No questions."  If you haven't, then he counts points for showing workings out.

I'm sure every male reading this has found himself in this same position where a simple maths question these days has a never fully achievable 100% because some teacher (female or male) decides the student answering the question needs to be brought down a peg.

In my Year 11 class I was doing so well in one of my maths classes (would get 100% on the weekly tests most weeks) that the male (!) teacher offered my friend and I to skip the class so we could focus on other studies.  Not bad for a guy who would average about 80% in primary school and early high school.

Note: my learning style and relative knowledge didn't change, only the attitude of the teacher.

Two female cops and the 4th paragraph

So, here's a story of some taser happy female police officers who were only too happy to pull a taser on a young couple they'd pulled over for nothing more than the guy had tattoos.

Interestingly, the cops, who made the guy delete the footage, were both female and it took until the 9TH PARAGRAPH to identify the policeWOMEN by gender if you exclude the footage provided.

Amazing how the threats by the policewomen that if the young couple doesn't stop filming they'll confiscate the phones, presumably on some trumped up charge.

You know what they say about power corrupting...