[lbo-talk] Not A Very Nice Man ( Was Re: Marx was no liberal; didn't suffer fools gladly)

[Miles Jackson]

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
> Joanna:
>
> Truth of the matter is a lot of fathers suck. Two reasons I think. 1. 
> They never get a chance to bond with the kids cause they're working 2. 
> They lose their wife/mommy and this enrages them because they never want 
> to acknowledge that they need the wife/mommy in the first place.
>
> As for Einstein, I actually read a funny anecdote in last week's New 
> Yorker about him: When he was 2 1/2 his baby sister was born. His 
> parents brought her home and showed her to him; his comment was "Yes, 
> And does it have wheels?"
>
>
> [WS:] Simon Baron-Cohen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Baron-Cohen
> argues that males are naturally devoid of empathy, the more so the more
> system-oriented their brains are.  That would explain emotional assholism of
> great luminaries like Marx or Einstein.
>
> Wojtek
>   
And Maggie Thatcher, and Barbara Bush, and--(you too can wildly 
extrapolate from a few cases to make a claim that is contradicted by a 
pile of research on gender socialization and neuropsychology!  It's fun!)

Miles