Comments on: Wendy McElroy unskeptically says our age lacks skepticism

By: Amanda

Amanda — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I’m guessing that the Age of Skepticism was the magical age before women were allowed to make judgement calls. Women, as we all know, are the gullible sex.

By: alsis38

alsis38 — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Well, at least our New Age of Gullibility helps keep Fox pundits from having to get real jobs. :p

By: Morrigan25

Morrigan25 — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks Amp! I just found the best book for SO’s b-day, The Private Presses Of San Serriffee, from the comments at that hoax site. Ah, right up a newspaper man’s alley :)

By: Echidne

Echidne — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I did a lot of research in McElroy last spring, and even blogged about it. I read all her Fox news columns for that research and divided them into groups by topics. The most frequent topic was the mistreatment of men, the second-most frequent topic was the evil gender-feminists and their manipulations. The third group in frequency was about horrible laws that stop right-wingers from doing and saying what they wish.

Her term “ifeminist” is really interesting in that sense. She never supports women’s issues. But she’s a smart businesswoman, of course. Which I’m not as I can’t even find a link to my own McElroy post.

By: Echidne

Echidne — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Heh! I found the link. Here it is:
http://echidneofthesnakes.blogspot.com/2003_12_01_echidneofthesnakes_archive.html#107175213469757292

Sorry if this was not appropriate. I never know what is appropriate.

By: mythago

mythago — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

And the hoax of Kuwaiti infants being thrown from incubators and cribs by invading Iraqi soldiers during the first Gulf War.