re: #84 Obdicut

The reason I felt it was terrible was because the logic is impossible. If women civilize men through expectations, how is barbarism removed? Shouldn’t it be through women’s expectations? That’s how he’s claiming men are civilized.

I think he misplaced his cardinal point. Here’s the penultimate paragraph:

Forgetting the question of decency and morality for a moment, there’s the matter of national interests. Female equality seems to be a pretty reliable treatment for many of the world’s worst pathologies. Population growth in the Third World tends to go down as female literacy goes up. Indeed, female empowerment might be the single best weapon in the “root causes” arsenal in the war on terror.