Wednesday, March 2, 2011

WTF Wednesday: Bad Feminism, Monkey Pee and a shameless Secretary of Defense

It's wednesday which means it's time for my weekly wtf roundup.

On the wtf-I-didn't-know-these-people-still-existed front:
Apparently the worst thing that ever happened to womankind is feminism. Yepp, you heard me. Feminism took away our rights. Our right to be wives, our right to be cared for by our husbands, our right to be paid for by our husbands. It's just so demeaning. But fear not. There are women out there fighting the evil forces of feminism. And they have written a book: "The Flipside of Feminism" by Phyllys Schlafly and Suzanne Venker.

On the wtf-monkeys-are-weird front:
Male Capuchin monkeys pee into their hands and rub their fur with urine to appear more attractive to females. Classy.


And on the wtf-this-makes-me-really-angry front:
Apparently a large portion of the people in my homecountry believe the theft of intellectual property is a peccadillo and scholarly work is useless. Otherwise I cannot explain why so many of them stand behind the thankfully now resigned Secretary of Defense who copied 70% of his PhD dissertation from sources he neglected to name and who apparently finds it beneath himself to apologize for it. Here's the backgroumd on what is going on.

Happy Wednesday.

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