Elizabeth Farrelly wrote a weird, incoherent essay about...I don't know, how feminism is all mean to men, or something, at the SMH.

I can't be arsed to try and analyse the whole thing - it's in the 'not even wrong' category - but I can be arsed to get all righteous about a crappy understanding of history.

Specifically:

It caused me to think ( Read more... )

Yes. I'm shocked too.

The article.

The study.

The background: A friend sent this to me for comment. It's from one of the medical blogs he reads - he's become obsessed with doing so and he's developing a real 'doctors are ferpect' attitude that is, admittedly, irritating me just a tad. So I did a break-down of the bits I thought were dodgy and ( Read more... )

I don't understand some scholars. They just don't make sense.

Also, 'received opinion' needs to be taken out the back and beaten with the stick of thinking. Citing someone as 'great' when they are patently wrong repeatedly is stupid. It's particularly bad when they were taken to task for their mistakes fifty years before you started to gush about ( Read more... )