Anti-Woman Blather of the Day

Check out this amusingly bad argument from one of University of Idaho’s budding Harvey Mansfield’s:

There is a difference between a good thing and the best thing. For example, a meal served with a delicious dessert is a good thing, but a meal in which every course is delicious is the best thing. Getting an A in one class is better than getting no A’s but not as good as getting all A’s. I think we can all understand this pretty easily. However, whether we understand it or not, sometimes we treat the good things as though they are actually the best things.
Where am I going with this? I’ll tell you. When we talk about women’s rights, we should consider whether they are good things or whether they are the best things, because many people treat them as the best things. Of course, I will say it is better to have women’s rights than not to have women’s rights, but the only way to put women’s rights first is if we are willing to say — which I am not — that women are better and more important than humanity as a whole.

Wow. Pass the dessert and give this dude an A+ for worst logic and most irrelevant metaphors ever.
Thanks to Anne-Marije for the heads up.

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