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To: Road Walker who wrote (227909)	4/5/2005 5:05:58 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576627

JF, you're trying to trap me in my own words, which isn't helping the discussion. I'm not into repeating myself, and you haven't denied the existence of an intolerant liberal establishment, so I have nothing further to say. Maybe thinking/saying women are stupid has a smaller political base than you think. An even better reason to end this discussion. Tenchusatsu

To: Road Walker who wrote (227909)	4/5/2005 5:06:17 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1576627

"Maybe thinking/saying women are stupid has a smaller political base than you think." Good point. I dunno, Summers might actually have something to say on the issue, but is inarticulate. However, he certainly did come off as saying that women just can't cut it intellectually. And that almost certainly isn't the case. Now in his defense, mathematics is becoming more and more central to engineering and science. In computer science, in particular, mathematics has become extremely important over the past few decades. And women tend not to do as well as men in math. While some of it may be gender related, a large portion of that difficulty is probably societal. There have been many women who have contributed a lot to mathematics in the past, often in societies that had an even greater bias against women in math than we have now.