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Related: About this forumRepublican Mansplains That Men Are Better Thinkers because Man Brains
Boobs, brews, bros, boats, balls, Borat, baldness, and breadwinning. Now that I've weeded out all the ladyreaders with that completely testosterone-soaked sentence of man related B words, I'm going to share an important man fact with all the dudes out there: your brains are better than lady brains. Says who? Says Maine's Republican House Minority Leader/brain expert Ken Fredette, during a debate on the House floor on Wednesday. Bonus: he supported his argument using a widely-derided book from 21 years ago. Too bad Fredette's manbrain didn't understand how video cameras or the internet work. Or, uh, public record, for that matter.
Fredette's heroic application of gender essentialism came in the context of a discussion of you guessed it (actually, you probably you didn't) application of Obamacare's federal funding for the Medicaid expansion at the state level. I'd explain it, but it would be easier for me to just step aside before my yogurt addled chickbrain ovulates all over Ken Fredette's turgid, rock-hard logic and let a man explain. Fredette's floor soliloquy, per ThinkProgress,
As I listen to the debate today and earlier debate on this bill, I cant help but think of a title of a book, Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus. And its a book about the fact that men sort of think one way in their own brain, in their own world. And women think another way in their own brain and in their own world. And it really talks about the way that men and women can do a better job at communicating. Because if you listen to the debate today, in my mind a mans mind I hear two fundamental issues. From the other side of the aisle, I hear the conversation being about: free. This is free, we need to take it, and its free. And we need to do it now. And thats the fundamental message that my brain receives. Now, my brain, being a mans brain, sort of thinks differently, because I say, well, its not if its free, is it really free? Because I say, in my brain, theres a cost to this.
Fredette's heroic application of gender essentialism came in the context of a discussion of you guessed it (actually, you probably you didn't) application of Obamacare's federal funding for the Medicaid expansion at the state level. I'd explain it, but it would be easier for me to just step aside before my yogurt addled chickbrain ovulates all over Ken Fredette's turgid, rock-hard logic and let a man explain. Fredette's floor soliloquy, per ThinkProgress,
As I listen to the debate today and earlier debate on this bill, I cant help but think of a title of a book, Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus. And its a book about the fact that men sort of think one way in their own brain, in their own world. And women think another way in their own brain and in their own world. And it really talks about the way that men and women can do a better job at communicating. Because if you listen to the debate today, in my mind a mans mind I hear two fundamental issues. From the other side of the aisle, I hear the conversation being about: free. This is free, we need to take it, and its free. And we need to do it now. And thats the fundamental message that my brain receives. Now, my brain, being a mans brain, sort of thinks differently, because I say, well, its not if its free, is it really free? Because I say, in my brain, theres a cost to this.
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Republican Mansplains That Men Are Better Thinkers because Man Brains (Original Post)
ismnotwasm
Jun 2013
OP
We know that men are smarter because they go bald. All that extra thinking and brain activity
JoePhilly
Jun 2013
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JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)1. We know that men are smarter because they go bald. All that extra thinking and brain activity
generates more heat, and that added heat kills their hair follicles, and so men go bald.
Makes perfect sense.
ismnotwasm
(42,008 posts)2. I forgot about that
I wonder if it's in his little book. Because, you know it should be if is not--following the same lines of logic
Squinch
(51,007 posts)3. OK, here's my question: I know we aren't breeding these troglodites, so where in the
hell are they coming from? And they're like a virus. They're everywhere.
mercuryblues
(14,537 posts)4. Garble warble
goop lam gum.
Sorry that is all my female brain can come up with.
Seriously, this fits into the women are not to be trusted with their medical decisions mantra.