AUSTIN, Texas — American Enterprise Institute scholar Charles Murray- who is an educational advisor to Republican governor candidate Greg Abbott, told an audience at the University of Texas this week that there is no “evidence” showing that any woman has ever been a “significant original thinker.” He then said the reason for this was the smaller size of the female brain.
“When you compare the size of a man’s brain with that of a woman, there’s no comparison,” explained Murray. “It’s not that I have anything against women. They’re nice enough, but it’s just a physical fact that their brains have developed to the same degree that men’s brains have developed.”
“I’m not a doctor,” he added, “but it may have something to do with their need to develop breasts. The human body can’t do everything.”
His comments came as he was defending his assertions in a 2005 paper that women have not played significant roles in the field of philosophy. He argued that he could only recall a single female philosopher, “and she was not a significant thinker in the estimation of historians of philosophy. Until somebody gives me evidence to the contrary, I’ll stick with that statement.”
Murray went on to blame what he called the less-impressive female brain for women making less money than men. He argued that equal pay laws would hurt women because, “You don’t pay the same at the pump for regular and supreme,” he said. “Why would you expect to pay the same for the work of a less-developed intellect?”
Asked by reporters if he agreed with his advisor’s views, Abbott, who is running for governor against Texas State Senator Wendy Davis, stuck with his man. “Charles is a smart guy,” he said. “If he says women are inferior than men, who are we to argue?”
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He knows of only ONE female philosopher? Perhaps someone should send him this link! He just proved that he is the one with the “inferior” brain! Disgusting! And he should also educate himself about those “smaller brains” in women! It’s been researched and the results are that although women DO have “smaller brains”, they USE them more efficiently than men and achieve the same as or even BETTER results! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_women_philosophers http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2287523/Women-really-smaller-brains–use-efficiently-men.html
…Don’t ‘cha mean Texas “GOOBER” Candidate? Vote WENDY! Repugs EXTINCT in 2014!!!
It’s probably because we are use to dealing with less when it comes to men.
Is this guy a complete dufus? How can he ‘know’ any significant female thinkers when he is predisposed to thinking that women have nothing valuable to contribute and probably doesn’t listen to a word they say anyway. How many female executives have reported being outnumbered in the board room, making a brilliant suggestion only have it ignored. Five minutes later, some guy in the room says the exact same thing and is touted as a “brilliant thinker.” Dear Mr. Abbott…insecure much?
You, and the rest of the tongue-in-cheek satirical news sites, are tedious. I’m sick of all of you. You accomplish nothing more than to influence idiots (and these days, they are legion), to present bullshit like this as “real” news. Open up a lemonade stand or something. You’re boring.
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What amazes me is he will most likely be elected & elected with female votes… I simply can’t understand how any woman would vote for this moron…
And let me add my oldest daughter who is a wife, mother of two, Coast Guard veteran, Cornell graduate, Masters from U Mass and EdD from U Mass. Is a Vice Principal in a Boston area school district, was a chemistry, science and math teacher prior to that and wrote the program on meteorology for high school students. Whomever this moron is in the story above hasn’t done one tenth what my oldest has done. The younger one has a BA from SU, is studying in London for her MA in art history and all this while holding down a full time job as well.
Truth be known, intuitive women resource the truth through more than intellect. ‘Feeling’ doesn’t seem to be in the vernacular of this moron.
I don’t believe it’s the “size that matters” but what women do differently than men. We are much better overall thinkers. Critical thinkers. As Sandi has pointed out, women use their brains more efficiently and can multi task better than men. Any man who can make a statement like this one isn’t using their brain at all or it’s because they don’t connect their brain to their mouths! What I will end with is this, much better to have a smaller, more functional brain than a larger, dysfunctional one! Men have this obsession with some parts of their body’s being larger. I fear his stupidity in making some claims makes him the least efficient, brainless person, who like the scarecrow, hasn’t got a brain!
This is satire!
No…we are SUPERIOR to men because number one fact…WE are able to have children with or without men…we can multi task, we are more detailed, we have strength that no man could ever have (bearing children), we have compassion, and we can take on any situation that comes along. You know for sure that if a WOMAN was running the White House the first inkling that something was askew, she would be all over it like bees to honey. What the hell is wrong with this guy?? I can bet that he probable got turned down by women and is bitter….hey buddy…just remember…if it wasn’t for a WOMAN you would not be here.. JACKASS!!
There is one thing that I can assure all readers and Mr Greg Abbot. THIS INFERIOR FEMALE MIND W I L L. N O T B E. V O T I N G FOR HIM!!!! I am POSITIVE THAT I WILL BE UNABLE at TO PULL HIS LEVER BECAUSE I AM NOT SMART ENOUGH !!! Would that not be poetic justice if he lost because of all the inferior female minds
If anyone took time to read this article, you would have realized that despite showing the Republican candidate Greg Abbott, he wasn’t the guy who made this statement. American Enterprise Institute scholar Charles Murray- who is an educational advisor to the candidate did. Of course we don’t know if candidate Abbott agreed or not. You know there are a lot of advisers, and like the old saying goes, opinion’s are like Democrats, everyone knows one. Or something like that, careful Sheeple you’re about to be taken in AGAIN !
I can’t for the life of me understand why one single woman would ever vote for this party. I mean even if you agree with whatever it is they call a policy, how can any woman support a party that thinks they are inferior? It’s people who make statements like this that are inferior thinkers. The whole GOP is inferior, in every way.
Obviously he forgot Ayn Rand.
“Inferior *than* men?” Yes, people, that is what “superior” sounds like. SMH And he wants this guy to be in charge of education. I can just see him limiting the amount of education allowed to girls, because after all, once we reach breeding age, why on earth do we need to know anything else? Pig.
when satire becomes truth, print the satire
Fuck ass, I’m sure your pee brain will win in texas
Karen Cropp Myer, RUN , don’t walk to your TV and get Fox News on. They.will sooth you and tell you what you want to hear and to not listen to them evil, nasty liberals , only to their dogma so you won’t get hurt.
He must be so smart because his penis is so small…hey the body can’t do everything!
Gre
Greg, hang on to that phillosophy , stick it wherever you please, and see if it keeps you warm!!
“It may have something to do with their need to develop breasts. The human body can’t do everything.” Fair enough, but it does seem to me that men also need to “develop” something, which may be taking the blood away from Abbott’s brain!
I mean, at least once we women develop them, we have them, and we don’t need Viagra to keep them!
Someone should remind him that Neanderthals had bigger brains then even us now… So Clearly Bigger is not better or more functional, it is however more arrogant apparently
All brains in Texas are smaller. Just look at Gov. Rick Perry. Duh!
I am getting increasingly disgusted with so – called satirical “news” outlets like this that put out fake news stories. Many (including me, at times) are fooled into believing they are genuine and repost them. I’ve heard all of the pathetic arguments that they are just art, or they serve a good purpose… but I strongly believe the hurt our credibility. The authors think they are so clever. It is easy to make this [email protected] up, but the damage it does to the progressive cause is not so easy to repair.
What a fuckin Idiot. Even if it were True, the Size of a Brain has nothing to do with how well it functions… XD
Many women feel the same about men and they don’t stop with the brains. Ain’t that right? WWW
Why don’t men use it then????
These idiots are making it hard for me to justify staying Republican!
Oh boy, he just pissed of a lot of women…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_women_philosophers
when he has a significant thought he should have another so the first one won’t die of loneliness
Hhhmmm. ..we have smaller brains? Yet we’re STILL smarter…if that were true that women have smaller brains ,(which I doubt) I would say that’s pretty amazing. ..
This reads like a piece out of The Onion. Tell me this is an April Fool’s joke. Please!
Typical far right jack ass.. what else can you say at this point..geezz…
Hombres necios que acusais a la mujer sin razon….
Maybe he should read some Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz…
If I ever need a brain transplant, I want the brain of a Texas Republican because I know it hasn’t been used much.
Greg should not be held accountable for the way thinks .He was a lady before the surgery
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Asshat!
And yet International Unions continue to hold national meetings in that horseshit thinking state! Talk about brain size.
Oh boy, he just pissed of a lot of women…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_women_philosophers
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/ten-great-female-philosophers-the-thinking-womans-women-299061.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_science
http://discovermagazine.com/2002/nov/feat50/
this isn’t a real news site, morons.
Let’s discuss the concept of projection.
If Abbot wins, Texas gets what it deserves
Sure this has to be satire, right? RIGHT?!
Dolly Parton is going to kick his ass!
Satire, people, satire.
if this guy wins, then he has proven himself right.
actually it’s women who believe that women are inferior, and that’s why they think they have the right to demand that a man be superior to themselves before they leave and give him a second look for a date. but then they will turn around and demand equality in terms of everything else, and they will see nothing wrong with that hypocrisy. That’s how women are inferior, they have no capability of understanding ethics, except for whatever benefits thempersonally, directly or indirectly
If I lived in Texas, I’d be smart enough not to vote for him! I just graduated from college and I am 79 years old,so there,Mr.Abbott.
Surely this is a joke. No one can really think this in this da and age.
I’m a male. Sometimes our balls get in the way of logical reasoning……so there is that. BTW, if I were still in Texas, I’d vote for Wendy…..its not the size of the organ, its what you do with it.
Another dim bulb in the Republican Party.
I just got done reading this and thought what the @$%& and decided to look this up myself and learned that according to this study the male brain at death weighs an avg of 1336 grams or 2.945376 Lbs and the female is on the average of 1198 grams or 2.641138 lbs. which shows that the avg weight of a female brain is 0.304238 lbs less weight then the male.
And over the years males and females gain or lose brain weight according to several factors so in essence even if a woman’s brain is smaller then men’s it does not necessarily mean that women can’t be better thinkers.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8072950
The GOP’s true colors are showing through…
even showing just the facts here, he pisses me off, women should get equal pay for equal work done. Why should the men get more, because they are the bread winner of the home. Well if that is what he thinks maybe he should do something about the fathers out there that run out on their kids leaving the woman to raise them both financially and emotionally by herself, while they don’t pay support or bother to see the kids they help to create
Very miss leading headline the person who said it (Charles Murray is a libertarian political scientist). The way the headline reads it seems as if the Candidate said it.
Let’s go for Madam Curie…original thinker, discovered radiation, Mary Cassette famous painter along with Money, Degas, and Can Gogh, and Gloria Steinem, Bella Abzug, and many female politician/leaders. He knows nothing!
There is no evidence to suggest that brain size & intelligence are related but if there were, perhaps Mr Abbot would be more comfortable in Neanderthal society – their brains were larger than those of modern homo sapiens.
Is this for real? Politicians, especially this on the far right, are renown for making stupid statements, but these just go beyond belief. If they really did say these things, a) I’d never vote for them (that’s a given, considering our political differences), and b) I bet a few women, alone or collectively, could think of some highly creative (read, intellectual, ways to quickly dispatch with these idiots. No doubt they will do it themselves, but we females could do the job, no sweat.
I live in North Carolina. This makes me want to contribute to Wendy Davis’a campaign! I’m sure us small brain women can raise really big money for her.
Why is it the REALLY STUPID GOP MEN saying women are stupider because of brain size?! This man must lack education because of all the GOP education funding cuts.
Satire or not Ms. Davis is running in a state where some politicians are living in another century.
Read it again – It wasn’t Abbott who said it, it was Charles Murray an adviser to Abbott who I can guarantee you just lost his job.
Size has nothing to do with the fact we use our brain alot more, because men use the one below the belt a lot more. Not the one in their heads, they just have bigger bodies and heads, nothing to do with using brains.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_female_Nobel_laureates
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_female_philosophers
Fewer women philosophers? Perhaps because in addition to requiring us to be smarter, life also demands that we be more pragmatic.
For those who are claiming that this is a bunch of “lies” because this is from a news “satire” site, here is a link to a Huffington Post article which quotes Mr Murray from his writings. And while he may not make the claim that it is because they have smaller brains, he still states that women, and minorities are inferior. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/01/greg-abbott-charles-murray_n_5071689.html
He proves that his “bigger brain” is a waste of molecular material….
This ignorant shit came out of Charles Murray’s mouth, so why the misleading headline and picture of Greg Abbott? I hate all politicians, but this is absolutely pathetic! Will you also print stupid shit said by “advisors” to Wendy Davis? Yeah, I won’t hold my breath.
This has to be a joke…right?!
WOW!!!
Maybe women haven’t been known for philosophy because we’re busy doing shit with our intelligence and not sitting around thinking about it. Self righteous dim wit, this guy just called his mother stupid! Bet she’s thinking the same thing right now
I think the article is false. I’m not buying into it. I went to UT and never heard ANY philosophy professor say crap like that. It would get him in hot water with the dean really quickly.
He needs to be replaced
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_female_Nobel_laureates
small brains to go with his small pecker
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/airspacesciencemath/tp/Famous-Women-Scientists.htm
What an effin’ jackass.
Where is General Santa Ana when you need him?
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Well here in Iowa, “supreme” gas usually less than regular unleaded gas. Does this mean that we should pay men less in Iowa?
Wow…and talk about stupid…looks who’s talking? Lmfao
I think he was referring to Karen lol
This is une problem with the Internet. People write complete fables from whole cloth, and other people believe it.
I wonder what’s the size of bigots? Maybe non, according to all the hatred and intollerance towards race and minorities.
This idiot just gave away 52% of the population’s vote. You can’t fix stupid.
As long as women continue to listen to the pulpit party thinking the way to heaven is through believing a bunch of fantasies and fables written for male domination, then they will vote for the pulpit party. #GagAMaggot
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/13/us/men-s-brains-shrink-faster-than-women-s-researchers-say.html
Is he mad that he needs an electron microscope to find HIS?
Texas Republican Claims Women Have Smaller Brains well i think Governor Grey Abbott just said the wrong thing about Women OMG
Want to call Grey Abbott office in Texas
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Don’t they even realize they are condemnng their own daughters to a life of legislated inferiority?
Don’t they even realize they are condemnng their own daughters to a life of legislated inferiority?
Hypatia? Heloise? Catherine of Siena? Hildebard of Bingen? Judith Butler? Mary Mary Midgley? Simone Weil and Simone de Beauvoir? Has this guy ever taken a philosophy course?
Hypatia? Heloise? Catherine of Siena? Hildebard of Bingen? Judith Butler? Mary Mary Midgley? Simone Weil and Simone de Beauvoir? Has this guy ever taken a philosophy course?
Hey, dipshit: apparently you don’t know that Albert Einstein had a Tiny brain.
Hey, dipshit: apparently you don’t know that Albert Einstein had a Tiny brain.
This is the same moron who convinced SOME Americans that the military training exercises were not set up to train our military but to overthrow dumbass Texas and confiscate weapons. That would be Jade Helm.
This is the same moron who convinced SOME Americans that the military training exercises were not set up to train our military but to overthrow dumbass Texas and confiscate weapons. That would be Jade Helm.
“I’m not a doctor…”
No shit, Sherlock.
At least we use ours. asshole.
And so the typical rethuglican idiots mouthing off just how stupid they really are
not to be profound or anything but a couple honest or real texans( now deceased) were just as batshit loony toons crazy
……it runs deep down there
not to be profound or anything but a couple honest or real texans( now deceased) were just as batshit loony toons crazy
……it runs deep down there
they were my friends
they were my friends
There are 25,145,561 residents in Texas, of which 12,673,281 are female and 12,472,280 males. Please explain to me why this guy is even their governor? My ONLY possible **general** conclusion: The majority of women of Texas must love being degraded, dehumanized and demeaned. And they must REALLY hate their daughters.
There are 25,145,561 residents in Texas, of which 12,673,281 are female and 12,472,280 males. Please explain to me why this guy is even their governor? My ONLY possible **general** conclusion: The majority of women of Texas must love being degraded, dehumanized and demeaned. And they must REALLY hate their daughters.
I pity the Texan Man. They actually believe the stuff they spred. I guess he never heard that the Lord Gave Texas men large brains because he did not have enough of “Donald Trumps large hands” to pass out. The Lord also knows that a Texas man could not function with a woman size brain. There is just to much in there for them to take out and play with to try to get it back together, working again. Yep he is right, women have smaller more efficient brains. Wonder how he figured that out???
I pity the Texan Man. They actually believe the stuff they spred. I guess he never heard that the Lord Gave Texas men large brains because he did not have enough of “Donald Trumps large hands” to pass out. The Lord also knows that a Texas man could not function with a woman size brain. There is just to much in there for them to take out and play with to try to get it back together, working again. Yep he is right, women have smaller more efficient brains. Wonder how he figured that out???
What. A. Moron. So is his boss, Grubb Maggott.
What. A. Moron. So is his boss, Grubb Maggott.
Although woman’s brains are generally smaller than men’s brains (proportional to general body size), intelligence is increased by the number of neurons, not the size of the brain. Cats have smaller brains than dogs, but have nearly twice the neurons. Cats are actually smarter animals, but are solitary hunters, so have no reason to “prove themself” to a human. Dogs appear smarter because they follow instruction more readily, but this is more of a reflection of their pack/community mentality – their purpose in life is to please the Alpha (which is the owner) – so they’re over-achievers. I have seen no study, ever, anywhere, that says women have fewer neurons than men… Abbott and Murray are idiots (likely due to fewer neurons than most average humans)…
Although woman’s brains are generally smaller than men’s brains (proportional to general body size), intelligence is increased by the number of neurons, not the size of the brain. Cats have smaller brains than dogs, but have nearly twice the neurons. Cats are actually smarter animals, but are solitary hunters, so have no reason to “prove themself” to a human. Dogs appear smarter because they follow instruction more readily, but this is more of a reflection of their pack/community mentality – their purpose in life is to please the Alpha (which is the owner) – so they’re over-achievers. I have seen no study, ever, anywhere, that says women have fewer neurons than men… Abbott and Murray are idiots (likely due to fewer neurons than most average humans)…
When Liberals fall for such blatant satire it makes ALL of us look pretty stupid.
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/charles-murray
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/charles-murray
Just another Republican semi-literate gangster, so what’s new about that?
Charles Murray is a certified lunatic. He calls himself an expert. No one I respect would bother listening to this blowhard. As for Abbott, calling him early caveman would stretching his mental capacity. Abbott continues to embarrass Texas on a regular basis. Please vote him out of off Texas. Maybe then we could get some relief with medical expenses and sexist remarks.
Charles Murray is a certified lunatic. He calls himself an expert. No one I respect would bother listening to this blowhard. As for Abbott, calling him early caveman would stretching his mental capacity. Abbott continues to embarrass Texas on a regular basis. Please vote him out of off Texas. Maybe then we could get some relief with medical expenses and sexist remarks.
and people buy this shit
and people buy this shit
None of this article is factual.
None of this article is factual.
Interesting that this article shared the page with adverts for boobs ‘n butts. Who thinks this stuff up? Actually, that ad for butts instantly reminded me of …. A-butt.
Interesting that this article shared the page with adverts for boobs ‘n butts. Who thinks this stuff up? Actually, that ad for butts instantly reminded me of …. A-butt.
Maybe we should let Texas seceed?
Maybe we should let Texas seceed?
OMG! So, this guy is saying one reason women have smaller brains is because their bodies had to divert some energy to developing breasts LMAO! Last time I checked the pseudoscience of “phrenology” lost credibility over 100 years ago. I guess this idiot left out the empirically supported stat that women’s brains, on average, have a %20 larger corpus callosum than men’s brains. So, let me see, based on this guy’s logic I need to take my ford ranger pickup truck and look for a ferrari to race cuz since I’m bigger I must be better??? IDIOT! Imagine what this world would look like if all women thought like men? OMG
OMG! So, this guy is saying one reason women have smaller brains is because their bodies had to divert some energy to developing breasts LMAO! Last time I checked the pseudoscience of “phrenology” lost credibility over 100 years ago. I guess this idiot left out the empirically supported stat that women’s brains, on average, have a %20 larger corpus callosum than men’s brains. So, let me see, based on this guy’s logic I need to take my ford ranger pickup truck and look for a ferrari to race cuz since I’m bigger I must be better??? IDIOT! Imagine what this world would look like if all women thought like men? OMG
It’s incredible that one who purports to be a scientist could advance such a preposterous theory! Do these people crawl out of sewers?
It’s incredible that one who purports to be a scientist could advance such a preposterous theory! Do these people crawl out of sewers?
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