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Harvard Pres Says Females Naturally Bad at Math

Man_Holmes writes "Harvard president says that women lack natural ability in math and science and this explains why fewer women succeed in math and science. Lawrence H. Summers later said that he was discussing hypotheses based on scholarly work and that it did not necessarily represent his private views."

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  1. Doesn't add up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Women control most money in us and they can't add? WTF...

  2. Re:but are females... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    you fucking failed it, bitch

  3. Harvard Sucks by theycallmerenda · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    At this year's Harvard-Yale Game, a number of Yale students dressed as the 'Harvard Prep Squad' gave out large cards to fans in the Harvard side and convinced them to hold them up after a Harvard touchdown, proudly spelling out "WE SUCK." Quite possibly the greatest prank ever... http://www.harvardsucks.org/ (Yale '04, been reading /. since living with two CS majors)

  4. ARTICLE TROLL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Michael Sims is a cocksucker.

    Nice

  5. Re:I already knew that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Harvard president says that women lack natural ability in math and science

    Doesn't matter so long as they know

    How hot to have the fucking oven for my dinner, fuck.

    How cold to keep my fucking beer, fuck.

    How to trim my fucking mullet, fuck.

    What fucking channels Nascar and football are on, fuck.

    How to fill the fucking Camaro, fuck.

  6. Speaking of babies...(sort of related) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You want to know why women are bad at math? If you entire life, men kept telling you a 5 inch penis actually equals a 9 inch penis, you grasp of math would be fubar too.

  7. Re:I already knew that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    You are forgotting:
    • How to give me a good sexual intercourse, fuck.
  8. Re:While you make good points by bobcave · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    how about this for a jewish rap:

    " I'm a real jewish guy and my name is Bernie..."
    " ...My father just died and left me power of attorney."

    --
    There is no such thing as 'chocohol' or 'workahol'.
  9. Marriage is NOT legally a partnership by jbs0902 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    My partner is

    Look I know it is trendy to treat any relationship as a partnership but (speaking as an attorney) it just isn't.

    You two are not filing an IRS form 1065 to declare your partnership income tax. You are not getting flow-through treatment for that income. You are either (non-married) filing separate income tax forms, or (married) a joint tax return.

    You two are not keeping capital accounts. When you go to divorce court, they are not going to look at your capital accounts to divvy up the funds. They'll divide them up based, not on partnership law, but on the "equity of the situation." And, when they do that 2 things. (1) The family court will care very much who is the husband and who is the wife. (Even though they are not supposed to.) (2) There will certainly be remuneration for services taken into account, which is a big no-no for partnership law.

    When the "partnership" ends you are not going to go into a court of general jurisdiction and go through a "winding up" process. You'll go into _Family court_ and get a divorce.

    It would nice, in some nirvana, if the law allowed domestic partnerships between two or more people. That would sidestep the entire gay marriage/polygamy thing. And, the idea of capital accounts and "no remuneration for services" would make divorces much cleaner. But, that isn't the world we live in.

    She is either your "girlfirend" or "wife," but (unless you have a joint business) she is not your "partner."