# Are women really this stupid - CBC - CNN et al **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 16, 2013, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-really-this-stupid-cbc-cnn-et-al/663688 "2013-07-16T18:47:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2013, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-really-this-stupid-cbc-cnn-et-al/663688/41 "2013-07-16T23:28:14Z")
> [@MN\_Maenad](#): > > _shrug_ The women I know don’t watch daytime TV. Someone must or it wouldn’t be there. Who, I wonder? Retirees? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2013, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-really-this-stupid-cbc-cnn-et-al/663688/42 "2013-07-16T23:30:46Z")
> [@Astroboy14](#): > > And they have cooties! One of the most remarkable and unusual of all childhood superstitions, in that sometimes, but only after you grow up, it turns out to be [true](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pubic_lice). (And “circle-circle-dot-dot” don’t help none.) ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2013, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-really-this-stupid-cbc-cnn-et-al/663688/43 "2013-07-16T23:39:38Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > Something tells me the OP would not be able to answer your question **Anaamika.** Bravo, that made me chuckle. It’s probably true too. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2013, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-really-this-stupid-cbc-cnn-et-al/663688/44 "2013-07-16T23:41:01Z")
> [@Iamnotivan](#): > > To be quite impolite, I think as the younger group has slowly replaced the elders in so many parts of education and the media, the younger set is dominated (and badly represented I hope) by the lumpen proletariat/lesbian celebrants of **average** who despise cultivation and refinement in favour of grunge, awesome, more grunge, Burger King and political correctness, easy listening and always wearing black. Man, this takes me back to the '90s. Oh those young people, with their lesbians and their grunge and their political correctness and wearing black all the time! ---
**Author:** ![colander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e8c25b/32.png) [@colander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colander)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2013, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-really-this-stupid-cbc-cnn-et-al/663688/45 "2013-07-17T00:10:16Z")
> [@Iamnotivan](#): > > Well, this is somewhat surprising. If some women could read, I was saying rather strongly that I think women are mainly quite smart - as any other humans - and that they are badly misrepresented by the current media. But, look at what happens. Seemingly the marginally-literate who completely failed to understand the concept took offense and began to howl. So you wish to say that I was wrong - women really are stupid as the media believes them to be. Maybe I am wrong. one time i did a fart it smelleded like pineaple ---
**Author:** ![BorgHunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@BorgHunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BorgHunter)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2013, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-really-this-stupid-cbc-cnn-et-al/663688/46 "2013-07-17T00:24:48Z")
> [@Iamnotivan](#): > > Well, this is somewhat surprising. If some women could read, I was saying rather strongly that I think women are mainly quite smart - as any other humans - and that they are badly misrepresented by the current media. Really? Because it seemed to me like you were saying—and granted, I’m _wildly_ paraphrasing here: > [@Iamnotivan](#): > > It seems women are too docile or dumb to protest the stupidity of the way they are represented today, and as a result, the stinky mediocrity of what the rest of us have to deal with daily. Can you please point out the parts of this sentence in which you are making the claim where “women are mainly quite smart”? Because I’m having a difficult time seeing it. Perhaps, despite believing myself to be male my whole life, I’m actually a woman, and this is interfering with my reading comprehension? Please advise; I’m quite concerned at this point that I’m contributing to this stinky mediocrity, and indeed, might even be a Burger King-eating lesbian. ---
**Author:** ![Jungian\_Camisole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@Jungian\_Camisole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jungian_Camisole)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2013, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-really-this-stupid-cbc-cnn-et-al/663688/47 "2013-07-17T00:27:18Z")
> [@Iamnotivan](#): > > Well, this is somewhat surprising. If some women could read, I was saying rather strongly that I think women are mainly quite smart - as any other humans - and that they are badly misrepresented by the current media. But, look at what happens. Seemingly the marginally-literate who completely failed to understand the concept took offense and began to howl. So you wish to say that I was wrong - women really are stupid as the media believes them to be. Maybe I am wrong. You. Are. _Precious_. _Looks at his/her start date, looks at mine_ I swear I am not any kind of of troll. I lack both the time and the attention span. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2013, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-really-this-stupid-cbc-cnn-et-al/663688/48 "2013-07-17T00:46:31Z")
Well, it’s an okay rant, as rants go. I appreciate the undefined and confusing insults like “freezer section”. What does that even _mean_? Who knows, it’s a rant. ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2013, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-really-this-stupid-cbc-cnn-et-al/663688/49 "2013-07-17T01:06:07Z")
Agreed: I think the OP is underrated. His followup post sucked and the OP lacked the all-important familiarity with the carriage return, but other than that it was an acceptable rant/troll/raving of an unhinged lunatic. Still as BrainGlutton notes it raises an interesting question: _who watches this crap???_ ---
**Author:** ![Not\_Carlson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc79bd/32.png) [@Not\_Carlson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Not_Carlson)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2013, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-really-this-stupid-cbc-cnn-et-al/663688/50 "2013-07-17T01:38:15Z")
> [@Iamnotivan](#): > > Well, this is somewhat surprising. If some women could read, I was saying rather strongly that I think women are mainly quite smart I don’t think you read your own OP. > [@Iamnotivan](#): > > . . . as any other humans You mean . . . as men? > [@Iamnotivan](#): > > So you wish to say that I was wrong I’m guessing most people here wish to say _piss off!_ ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2013, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-really-this-stupid-cbc-cnn-et-al/663688/51 "2013-07-17T02:31:15Z")
> [@Iamnotivan](#): > > To be quite impolite, I think as the younger group has slowly replaced the elders in so many parts of education and the media, the younger set is dominated (and badly represented I hope) by the lumpen proletariat/lesbian celebrants of **average** who despise cultivation and refinement in favour of grunge, awesome, more grunge, Burger King and political correctness, easy listening and always wearing black. Trying to read and understand this makes me feel quite pretty. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2013, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-really-this-stupid-cbc-cnn-et-al/663688/52 "2013-07-17T02:44:40Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Me, too! (BTW, for what?) Everything that is wrong with our modern Western society. > [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Of course, those are the most important things in their respective lives. If women were what you wish they were, what would they be posting? Things that are more interesting to me. > [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > I don’t think any of the women I follow on twitter post only baby stuff or alcoholic ho stuff. Try following classier women. Megan Amram is always a good choice. Okay, I’m following her now. > [@Chimera](#): > > [Cooties!](http://boingboing.net/filesroot/cooties.jpg) I totally remember those! > [@Ambivalid](#): > > Trying to read and understand this makes me feel quite pretty. I don’t understand it; I must be one of those dumb women. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2013, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-really-this-stupid-cbc-cnn-et-al/663688/53 "2013-07-17T02:53:16Z")
> [@Iamnotivan](#): > > So you wish to say that I was wrong No, we wish to say that you’ll DIE! I saw _Goldfinger_ the other day. ---
**Author:** ![Not\_Carlson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc79bd/32.png) [@Not\_Carlson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Not_Carlson)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2013, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-really-this-stupid-cbc-cnn-et-al/663688/54 "2013-07-17T04:26:00Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Trying to read and understand this makes me feel quite pretty. > [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > I don’t understand it; I must be one of those dumb women. Trying to both read and understand Iamnotivan’s pithy and insightful opinions on the fairer sex has caused Ambivalid to channel Maria from West Side Story. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2013, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-really-this-stupid-cbc-cnn-et-al/663688/55 "2013-07-17T04:48:49Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Everything that is wrong with our modern Western society. Oh, that. Well, yes, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2013, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-really-this-stupid-cbc-cnn-et-al/663688/56 "2013-07-17T05:07:37Z")
Daytime TV is vapid. Film at 11. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2013, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-really-this-stupid-cbc-cnn-et-al/663688/57 "2013-07-17T05:19:01Z")
I don’t know how much Ivan paid the OP to use that screen name but it was money well spent. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2013, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-really-this-stupid-cbc-cnn-et-al/663688/58 "2013-07-17T05:19:21Z")
What’s wrong with Burger King? ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2013, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-really-this-stupid-cbc-cnn-et-al/663688/59 "2013-07-17T05:23:17Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > What’s wrong with Burger King? It’s undemocratic, and should undergo a forcible regime change to a Burger Presidency. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2013, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-really-this-stupid-cbc-cnn-et-al/663688/60 "2013-07-17T05:52:32Z")
I was watching the Wendy Williams show the other day. Are women really like that? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-really-this-stupid-cbc-cnn-et-al/663688.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-women-really-this-stupid-cbc-cnn-et-al/663688.md?page=4)