Maureen Dowd: X-celling over men

[Dover]

Maureen Dowd: X-celling over men Maureen Dowd The New York Times

Tuesday, March 22, 2005

WASHINGTON Men are always telling me not to generalize about them. But a startling new study shows that science is backing me up here.
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Research published last week in the journal Nature reveals that women are genetically more complex than scientists ever imagined, while men remain the simple creatures they appear.
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"Alas," said one of the authors of the study, the Duke University genome expert Dr. Huntington Willard, "genetically speaking, if you've met one man, you've met them all. We are, I hate to say it, predictable. You can't say that about women. Men and women are farther apart than we ever knew. It's not Mars or Venus. It's Mars or Venus, Pluto, Jupiter and who knows what other planets."
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Women are not only more different from men than we knew. Women are more different from one another than we knew - creatures of "infinite variety," as Shakespeare wrote.
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"We poor men only have 45 chromosomes to do our work with because our 46th is the pathetic Y that has only a few genes which operate below the waist and above the knees," Willard observed. "In contrast, we now know that women have the full 46 chromosomes that they're getting work from and the 46th is a second X that is working at levels greater than we knew."...cont'd

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/03/21/opinion/eddowd.html
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[Spinzonner]

1. That's not the real problem

It's when the same person has several different personalities at different times.

[KlatooBNikto]

2. Once again Maureen trips all over herself trying to identify with

a socalled superior group when her self absorption and trivialization of serious subjects,indicates that she is far from a superior or a complex entity of any kind.She is quite predictable, her ID as a woman notwithstanding. She is vain, egotistical to a fault and as I said capable of trivializing every subject she touches.

Her frequent use of nicknames like Rummy,Condi and so on is to let us mere mortals know that she moves in exalted circles not accessible to us. Her endless chatter about her shopping at Prada and Fendi and which trendy nightspot she went to tells us that she is nothing but a social climber at heart.Switching gears between these trivia and serious subjects undermines any semblance of solemnity one needs to bring to her work.She is, in effect, a printed version of the giggling kewpie dolls one sees on TV. Nothing more.

So, Maureen, while women may indeed have chromosomal complexity as the good doctor from Duke says, you may be one of the exceptions.Think about it when you finish your shopping sprees a little early.

[BeyondGeography]

4. That's a very artful deconstruction of MoDoze

Her columns are so narcissistically self-referential I wonder if there is a faction at the Times that is screaming for her removal from the op-ed page. She has become a terminal adolescent, always wondering why the Belle of the Ball has wound up aging and lonely. With her platform, she could take refuge from the ravages of time (which devour us all) by taking the intellectual route. Instead, her column has become a bi-weekly journey to the center of her navel.

What a total waste.

[sans qualia]

3. This is incredibly depressing.

:cry:

[Maple]

5. What a ridiculous article

Sounds like a fashion writer trying to be serious and failing miserably.

'Male genes? Ohhh like that's sooooo last week darling! Cuz you know that..like...um...women multitask'

[htuttle]

6. "while men remain the simple creatures they appear"

Sigh..

Okay guys, repeat after me:

I'm a man,
But I can change,
If I have to,
I guess.

[Cicero]

7. Heh

We are men, we are men.
We are manly men.
We've got hair on our chests.
We are manly men.
We are manly, manly, manly men!
We are manly, manly men.

Thumbs up from me if you can tell me what TV show I got that from (hint: its no longer on the air).

later,

[On the Road]

8. Actually, I Think it Argues Men Have Greater Diversity

Since they have one copy of the X chromosome and one of the Y. Women just have a double Y.