APPENDIX: Billie of Ockham

 

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This isn’t that hard a subject to break out separately and explain. What’s hard is to find ways that women who presume to speak for women (i.e., 20 to 21st Century feminists) formulate their arguments without resort to Occam’s Razor. What they’re feeling right now is the right answer, therefore the easiest one to accept unless you want to be branded a sexist.

An emotional rant intended [fixing an Autocorrect goof] to intimidate rather than persuade an audience to a desired outcome is Occam all the way. Here’s a tweet that was published just this morning:

An easy answer guaranteed to fix everything. Guess how many agree.

It’s a lot easier to be provocative than it is to be persuasive. Not that Occam can’t be used to persuade. An outstanding example of this in a life-and-death courtroom circumstance that could have been cited in the main article was Johnnie Cochrane’s brilliant one-liner:

Months of complicated technical testimony reduced to a single rigged litmus test; on 
Cochrane’s instructions, OJ stopped taking his arthritis meds so his hands would swell.

Effective and oh-so-memorable. Way better than Marcia Clark’s Occam alternative: “He did it.” Now, quick as a fox, think of the most memorable one-liners produced by 50 years of activist feminism. [foot tapping…] Okay. I know which one you picked. And I’m betting you didn’t even remember these most “quotable quotes” offered by Google:

Your response? Mine is “Meh.” More here. All forgettable in 10 min or less.

Here’s the one you remembered:


Memorable? Sure. Persuasive of anything? No. It’s not true unless perpetuation of the species can be accomplished by women without men. It’s not a manifesto for reform of the social contract. It’s not a closing argument by a prosecutor or advocate for the defense. It’s just a remark, a classic female non-sequitur in fact, often mis-attributed to Gloria Steinem and repeated often by her and others. It also contains an ironic Freudian slip, which men have had fun with and thereby subsidized the memorability of the quote. 

Easy corollary: The fish doesn’t mind owning a bicycle even if she doesn’t understand
how it works. But she really really hates having to share it with other fish in the tank.

The only other things we have to cite about women and Occam are Hillary and Abortion. The rest is handled by our reference sources at the end of the post. 

Hillary is the archetypal Occam politician. She has endured scandal after scandal, proclaimed herself a feminist despite destroying her unfaithful husband’s conquests. She rails against the glass ceiling while riding her husband’s coattails to power by means impossible without egregious nepotism. When she runs for President of the United States, she doesn’t address or refute any of the ugly public misbehaviors in her past, she simply demands that she be elected because she’s a woman. That’s the easiest answer ever offered for becoming Commander-in-Chief. And quite incredibly, millions of women, and men, thought her easy answer was good enough to earn their vote. Raise your hands if you have anything to add to this analysis.

Abortion. Ultimate Occam. If you can’t support this, you’re an irredeemable sexist misogynist:


What about the 30-50 million babies who weren’t born after 1973? That’s not a cultural loss to the United States, now struggling for the first time ever to maintain a birth rate capable of replacing the existing population? Irrelevant. Easy answer, just stop calling it Abortion. It’s Choice, that’s what it is. A woman’s choice, exclusively, because she’s the only one who can actually give birth. 

Which is implicitly an argument that women are the Superior Sex, the only ones who have an individual right to end another individual life for any reason at all, including personal convenience. Not relevant. If you refuse to recognize that the right to kill outweighs the right to life if you’re a pregnant woman, then you’re just a hateful sexist misogynist bastard who should probably be locked up. See? It’s easy. Nothing to talk about. Nothing to debate. When it comes to this particular right, men, the law, and thousands of years of reverence for motherhood, have nothing to contribute but interference. 

The left brain influence of age is also striking in the case of women. Many of  the loudest voices on Abortion rights are women who are past childbearing themselves. Which raises the suspicion that they have motivations that go beyond the tough choices facing their sisters. Like their aging, Viagra-slugging male colleagues, their primary ambitions concern power and money and titles and celebrity and everything but family, which is something already lost to their neglect in years of climbing the ladder. Women of this stripe have become imitation men, different only in that unlike men, they believe they are right because they feel they are right and screw the facts and logic and that other shit, which makes having a different position every day no problem at all. The only thing required to win is to stand up straight, stick your tits out, and say, “Look at me. Look at me! I am right. I am always right. Because I say so.” Men tend to think they have to have a good zinger to carry the day with their easy Occam solution.

Are we done here? Pretty much. Unless you want to browse through the considerable body of work that underpins what is touched on here. For your information and amusement, then, this list of sources. They’re not in any particular order, so hunt and peck as you will, or not at all:












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