The New Summers: Professor Robertson repents of his unholy sins (said M, W different)

**Rebadow** · 23rd-March-2007

Hearty congratulations are in order for Professor Ian Robertson, who has propitiated the sisters quicker than it takes them to take offence at a Bernard Manning joke. The Prof had casually remarked, on a television programme, that male and female brains were different and that men were better at maths and engineering.

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The Prof knows this: and he knows something else, too. When the PWO are university academics they are inclined to have a good cry if someone says something they disagree with, and then they go seeking blood.
This has been the story of the evolution of intellectual enquiry in campuses across the English-speaking world over the past three decades. Thus, those who dissent from the ideological orthodoxies of the feminist agenda do not get tenure, or can even lose their jobs, as the president of Harvard, Laurence Summers, famously did. Why?
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So, barely had the Prof uttered words we all know to be true before he began to recant, spreading apologies all over Trinity like a crop-duster. "I didn't realise what I'd said," he gibbered in terror. "It's obviously nonsense and I immediately set about retracting the statement and I have now written to my colleagues in Trinity to apologize."
There we have it, almost like in a Stalinist show trial, a respected academic suddenly retracting, letter-writing and apologizing, as he frantically scoops the rashers out of the pan before they burn alongside his career: that is, saving his bacon. And no doubt getting his contrition in before the Berias of feminism struck was a sound move, for the gulag of academic obscurity too easily awaits the intellectual dissident these days.

Interesting stuff. Read the whole thing here.

**Sir Loin** · 24th-March-2007

If women are, on average, every bit as good at math and engineering as men perhaps they can demonstrate their equal abilities by, hmmm... I don't know... "Putting up or shutting up" in mass numbers?

There are some great female engineers out there; of that I have no doubt. I know a couple myself. On average though... well, if that were the case we'd see many many more women actually making accomplishments in those types of fields.

The proof is in the pudding. Like I said earlier: Put up or shut up.

**Male-Rights-Network** · 24th-March-2007

Not said in the linked article, Kevin Myers wrote that article in the Irish Independent of Thursday, 22 March. Very refreshing read for the Indo, amidst the ever-expanding "pink news", celebrity news, and general bogus trivialities in this "quality daily".

You might also note the Sunday Times coverage of the issue on 18 March, which Myers also noted. Indeed, I think that paper may have "broke" the story:

"The Sunday Times headlined the story Rumpus Over Sexist Slur. Sorry, I know subs have to attract readers' attention, but please: there was no rumpus, thanks to the Prof's pre-emptive capitulation.

Moreover, what he'd said, in a brief moment of lucidity before a protective cloud of abject timidity enveloped his career, was neither sexist nor a slur, merely the truth. However, once a newspaper headline states that something is a 'sexist slur', then a sexist slur it becomes in that wretched and credulous abstract, the popular imagination."

Myers captured it spot-on, I think we'll all agree. I reached the same conclusion on this "sexist slur" on a comment I made over at FredX's Blog.

But as Myers said, the press calls it a "sexist slur" on the front page and it becomes a "sexist slur". That's Owellian thought control for you. I noted too the female journalist for the Sunday Times said Laurence Summers "stepped down" subsequently after making his unorthodox, non-conformist but nevertheless legitimate and academic remarks. It should be noted that it was not a case of Summers voluntarily stepping down; he was forced out because of feminist pressure within the institution - just as happened to Jeffrey Asher in Dawson College, Canada. The case of Laurence Summers is excellent proof of feminist dictatorship if ever it were needed.

The TV programme in question was 'The Panel' aired on 15 January, 2007.

http://www.rte.ie/tv/thepanel/av_200...09798,null,228

Robertson should not have withrew his comments. They were legitimate, had a good degree of truth to them and were at least worthy of scrutiny, rather than all-out blackening. And turn the tables, would a female Trinity College Dublin professor apologise for gender-related remarks made saying, for example, women multi-task better and are smarter? Firstly she would maintain her stance indignantly, and would then probably resort to "I was expressing my opinion in a personal capacity outside of my academic work. I am entited to say as I wish in my outside life separate from Trinity College Dublin. I see no need whatsoever to apologise."

**Yan Yan** · 24th-March-2007

That Professor Roberts comes out of this fiasco as a spineless wimp is indeed lamentable.

But, But, But if Kevin Myers refreshing article was printed in TWO Irish national dailies - that's PROGRESS! Maybe even common sense will come back into fashion. The editor of The Sunday Times should keep looking over his shoulder.

**christianj** · 26th-March-2007

Another clear demonstration how the femonazy deliberately destroy any discussion on their doctrine as they know it stands no scrutiny. It is difficult, if not impossible to protect a lie.

Academia has been infiltrated by the feminist dogma and doctrine and on each and every occassion we have seen attempts by "males", trying to fight this inbred cancer and suffering the consequences.

The males they can keep down as they have done for the last 40 years but their new inbuilt enemy still needs convincing, that is their own !

"women".