First Lady not so funny: Says women aren't good math teachers
Is Laura Bush taking lessons from Harvard's Lawrence Summers? While the news has been cooing over how charming and funny Laura was at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, some other hysterical banter from the First Lady got lost in the mix.
Last week while promoting her initiative to help young men in the U.S., she spewed this little tidbit:
I was not a very good math teacher. And I think that's kind of a problem in elementary schools, especially women teachers. They're great in the language arts, and not so great at math.
Check it out in this NPR report.
Thanks to Mike for the link.
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Well, you've heard of the term 'internalised homophobia'?
That's funny, because the best math teacher I ever had was a woman. And all of the mediocre or bad math teachers I had were men. Too bad that the First Lady is bad at her job...
she was a lousy math teacher, therefor female math teachers aren't very good at it in general? She apparently sucks at logic too (which explains the choice of husband).
Best math teacher I ever had was a woman, too. She was of the tribe of don't-fuck-with-me Southern women, with taaaall hair and weekly manicures. We loved her, but it was fun to imitate her waving her hand in the air to describe a certain mathematical concept with those talons whistling through the air.
Wow, the lengths some will go to atack a person personally because they disagree with her husbands politics?
If only I was as content and happy with my choices as she is with hers. You know, it could be that she loves him.
I do believe everyone was attacking her for the sexist comment she made about math teachers.
Goes to show that one bad example ruins it for the whole group...
Speaking of bad examples, I can't even comprehend what kind of damage Jennifer Wilbanks has caused to men's perception of women in general.
Apparently girls as young as 7 yrs old say similar things, along the lines of 'Oh I'm such a dope at maths, but I love English.' This proves that females have a 'ditzy at maths' gene (on chromosome 12, I understand) and explains why there have been so few good women mathematicians. I read this in 'Why men can't control their sex drive and women can't put up shelves' by Barbara and Allan Pease. So I didn't need Lawrence Summers or Jennifer Wilbanks to affect my perception of women - it was already a pile of manure.
You're just narked because she said a good thing for women, followed by a bad - how DARE someone speak the obvious.
It just goes to highlight that blatant double standards of feminism.