Reply #8: You know, MAdem

[CTyankee]

I am certainly not against the Yo Yo Ma Silk Road Project at all. What I am so bothered about is Summers' just blithe iteration of a study that was so very like everything every woman has heard who has tried to defy the rules against women going to Ivy League Schools, or going out for sports or going into professions that weren't "for women" or women trying to get into the military academies, etc, etc. It was the old "women can't do this because =====(fill in the blanks)".

Summers' lacks imagination. He lacks critical thinking, really. He can't get beyond one fix which he wanted to offer his audience at that speech, even tho there is a range of studies he could have picked from. Why that one?

Summers also lacks curiosity. If he was at all interested in this issue to bring up to a group of academics, why did he not also bring up a study that refuted this one? Just to balance the two since no one study is at this time conclusive?