When in doubt consult Jeff
Larry “women are stupid” Summers is back in the news.
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he sought guidance from a longtime associate: convicted sex offender Jeffrey E. Epstein.
In a sequence of texts and emails between November 2018 and July 5, 2019, Summers turned to Epstein for advice on his pursuit of the woman. Epstein was quick to chime in with assurance and suggestions, describing himself in one November 2018 message as Summers’ “wing man.”
How cute and amusing.
Wednesday’s documents also revealed messages where Summers, whose speculation that innate differences between men and women could drive women’s underrepresentation in science contributed to the end of his Harvard presidency in 2006, joked about women’s intelligence and what he described as excessive penalties for men who “hit on” women in the workplace.
In an October 2017 email to Epstein, Summers retread the same terrain that had proven treacherous for him in the past, writing that he “observed that half the IQ in world was possessed by women without mentioning they are more than 51 percent of population….”
Haw haw haw – where would we be without men sharing jokes about how stupid women are with their bro friends?
As my DPhil supervisor and friend and, much later, Harvard Dean of Arts and Sciences, Jeremy Knowles, had a good relationship with Larry Summers I feared I might be going to learn something I didn’t want to know, but so far he seems to be in the clear. I hope it stays that way. His reappointment as Dean after retiring from the role was linked in some way to Summers’ firing, but I don’t remember details.
If he thinks that women are stupid, then why was he pursuing a romantic relationship with one?
Why do any men do that? Billions have over the millennia.
I know. It makes no sense that they do that. They’re idiots. That was my point.
Aha, a rhetorical question!
But women, according to patriarchal tradition, should be stupid, barefoot and pregnant. Not really part of the social strata at all, just ornaments and breeding stock. This is how the shitbags like Andrew Tate and Rich Cooper and the rest of the fecking “bros” think. Regressive, shallow proto-humans, the lot of them.