Reply #61: It's not 'putting words in your mouth' when it's a question. [View All]

[The Doctor.]

Very cute though. ;)

I've seen very irrational men behaving very irrationally.

Let's see;

The WSWS calls Bush 'irrational';
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jan2005/inau-j22.shtml (first hit)

A terrorism analysist;
http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:QO3cKP7Uq40J:world-ice.com/Articles/Irrational.pdf+%22irrational%22+%22bush%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us

Heck, here's the Google search of "Bush" + "irrational";
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGIH_enUS254US255&q=%22irrational%22+%22bush%22

Examples are everywhere.

Do the same search with most members of the administration and I'm sure you'll find that there are plenty of examples of men being described as 'irrational'.

I'm sure you can understand how difficult it is for me to believe you've gone through life without ever hearing of a man being described as 'irrational'. That search took less than five seconds.


So, why is it only 'sexist' to describe an irrational woman as irrational, but not an irrational man as irrational?

It's a double-standard like that one that's 'sexist'.