what a crazy bitch

[starvingeyes]

ok, fun as it may be to make fun of moron dowd, this still, underlies a major social problem in our society. if i, the angry white suburban male, wrote a column saying comparable things about blacks, jews, women etc. i'd be crucified.

where's the outcry for this psycho? i mean, i know she's such a dumb bitch that no rational person could take her seriously, but at the same time, this kind of thing still irks me. we take racists and male chauvanists seriously, i think it's high time bitches like dowd get the treatment they deserve.

Incredible Shrinking Y
By MAUREEN DOWD


hy, oh Y, are men so insecure?

The darlings have been fretting for some years now that they may be rendered unnecessary if women get financial and biological independence, learning how to reproduce and refinance without them. What if nature played a cruel trick and demoted men, so they had to be judged merely by their appearance, pliability and talent for gazing raptly at the opposite sex, no matter how bored?

New research on the Y chromosome shows that my jittery male friends are not paranoid; they are in an evolutionary shame spiral.

As Nicholas Wade wrote in The Times: "Although most men are unaware of the peril, the Y chromosome has been shedding genes furiously over the course of evolutionary time, and it is now a fraction of the size of its partner, the X chromosome. . . . The decay of the Y stems from the fact that it is forbidden to enjoy the principal advantage of sex, which is, of course, for each member of a pair of chromosomes to swap matching pieces of DNA with its partner."

Mr. Wade said that biologists in Cambridge, Mass., had made a remarkable discovery: "Denied the benefits of recombining with the X, the Y recombines with itself."

The ultimate guys' night out. Simply put, the Y chromosome figured out a Herculean way to save itself from extinction by making an incredibly difficult hairpin turn and swapping molecular material with itself.

Self-love as a survival mechanism: the unflinching narcissism of men may send women into despair at times, but it has saved their sex for the next 5 million or 10 million years.

But, according to Olivia Judson, science's answer to the sensual British cook Nigella Lawson, men may need more than narcissism to survive.

Dr. Judson, a 33-year-old evolutionary biologist at Imperial College in London who has written a book about animals in a Dear Abby style, or Deer Abby, under the pen name Dr. Tatiana, says the worm has turned. "For a long time, it was assumed that promiscuity was good for males and bad for females in terms of the number of kids they could have," she explains. "But it wasn't until 1988 that it really started to become evident that females were benefiting from having sex with lots of males, with more promiscuous females having more and healthier offspring."

In her book, Dr. Judson writes about powerful babes, noting that females in more than 80 species, like praying mantises, have been caught devouring their lovers before, during or after mating. "I'm particularly fond," she told me, "of the green spoon worm. . . . The male is 200,000 times smaller, effectively a little parasite who lives in her reproductive tract, fertilizing her eggs and regurgitating sperm through his mouth."

And then there's the tiny female midge, who plunges her proboscis into the male midge's head during procreation. As Dr. Judson told the journalist Ken Ringle, "Her spittle turns his innards to soup, which she slurps up, drinking until she's sucked him dry."

The Economist recently reported on a variation of the creepy-crawly girl-eats-boy love stories. The male orb-weaving spider kills himself before the female has a chance to. Biologists now believe that the male orb-weaver dies when he turns himself into a plug to prevent other males from copulating, thus ensuring his genes are more likely to live on.

In a new book called "Y: The Descent of Men," Steve Jones, a professor of genetics at University College in London, says males, always a genetic "parasite," have devolved to become the "second sex."

The news that Dolly the sheep had been cloned without masculine aid sent a frisson through the Y populace, he writes, because men began to fear that science would cause nature to return to its original, feminine state and men would fade from view.

The Y chromosome, "a mere remnant of its once mighty structure," is worried about size. "Men are wilting away," Dr. Jones writes. "From sperm count to social status and from fertilization to death, as civilization advances, those who bear Y chromosomes are in relative decline."

Perhaps that's why men are adapting, becoming more passive and turning into "metrosexuals," the new term for straight men who are feminized, with a taste for facials, grooming products and home design.

Better to be an X chromosome than an ex-chromosome.

[One-Eye]

That article is completely ridiculous.

[mosaik]

i hate it when chicks get all turned on about how female bugs kill their mates

i just want to yell MAKE ME SUPPER BITCH!

geez.

[One-Eye]

[mosaik]

well, you know.

[Sufjan Stevens]

Wow, I must have missed that memo that told me that all men have to be insecure about their survival, that I need to be narcisistic so I can last in life, and that, in general, compared to women, I am absolutely worthless.

Where does this bitch live? It's time to fire bomb her house. This article settled it, she deserves death.

[starvingeyes]

like i said elsewhere, i don't think we should be paying too much attention to hysterical nitwits of her kind.

it seems the more this bitter, unbalance harpy speaks, the more she discredits herself. this is, unfortunately, what happens when you mix being ugly with womyns studies. ho ho ho.

[Furious George]

Holy shit, I doubt I'll ever read a more stupid article.

[Corey]

She does have a point about men becoming more feminized. These days it is as if "masculine" is a dirty word. You're not allowed to act "manly" without being labeled a chauvenist or mysoginist. I like CARS, POWER TOOLS, and VIOLENT MOVIES and no woman is going to make me feel bad about it!!

[One-Eye]

Women aren't allowed to act "womanly", either, without being chewed out by the feminists. Not that I want to get married, stay home, and raise 8 kids, but that's not a bad thing if it's what makes you happy.

[Sufjan Stevens]

Corey, you are right. It's a crime to a feminist to be a man. If you like anything manly, you're the scum of the earth. When I look at feminism, they're as bad as chauvanists. Chauvenists want everything their way, and it oppresses women and shit. But feminists want everything their way too, and if it isn't, you're wrong and you're preached out at, which is bullshit. Apparently you have to be completely emasculated before you're an acceptable male in the general eyes of feminism, which, I might add, is bullshit.

[Dabekk]

so here's the gist of the article: the y chromosome is getting smaller, and on top of that some female insects eat their male mates, therefore women are superior to men.

absolutely pointless.

[Axtech]

It's getting smaller because it's getting more efficient. Take that, bitch.

[Bandalero]

She does have a point about men becoming more feminized. These days it is as if "masculine" is a dirty word. You're not allowed to act "manly" without being labeled a chauvenist or mysoginist. I like CARS, POWER TOOLS, and VIOLENT MOVIES and no woman is going to make me feel bad about it!!

Yes, it's about godammed time we act like the men we are and go build stuff and fix cars and shoot/kill/eat bambi and stuff like that.

MEN....GET YOUR TOOLS, YOUR GUNS, AND FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, YOUR MANLYHOOD BACK!

[sandsleeper]

lol i saw that the other day in the times, didn't even waste my time reading it full out.

[I AM ME]

this bitch has obviously had a bad run in with men and is bitter towards all of them obviously she isthe one with a mental problem which she should seek help with, if you can't accept trust men to her point then it is you who has sexist problems and need to seek help. She is no better in that article thne when men dubbed it to mentally straining for women to vote. She is no better then the men she hates, if anything she is worse, because at t he time it was something taught as accepted, now sexism is unacceptable and she still participates in it. Die hypocritical, sexist she pig!