SEX AND I.Q. -- AN APOLOGIA

NOTED WITH CLINICAL DETACHMENT

This thesis will reluctantly examine the painful though inescapable scientific fact that women are stupider than men.

The author wishes to emphasize at the outset that not all women are stupider than all men; indeed, some women are very smart, such as Marie Curie and Katharine Graham.

However, the unassailable evidence from all available aggregate data -- as measured physiologically, taxonomically and through the application of empirical testing procedures involving highly scientific terminology such as "standard deviation" -- is that women, in comparison to men, are imbeciles.

This conclusion should not be used to discriminate in any way against women, nor to make any assumptions whatsoever about the cognitive abilities of individual women, many of whom have made valuable contributions to society, such as Sandra Day O'Connor and Katharine Graham.

Before summarizing his findings, the author also wishes to acknowledge his indebtedness to Charles Murray and the late Richard J. Herrnstein, authors of the controversial, gigantically scientific new book arguing, with grave misgivings, that black people are genetically inferior to white people in intelligence. Drs. Murray and Herrnstein make this courageous assertion at the very real risk of being labeled dangerous, evil racists and making many millions of dollars.

This article could not have happened without their inspiration.

1. The Ascent of Man

Schoolchildren are familiar with the drawing, reproduced as Fig. 1 on page F5, illustrating mankind's emergence from the primordial soup and gradual evolution to the upright, cerebral biped he is today.

It is instructive to note that the most obvious evolutionary development accompanying man's increasing sentience is his increasing erectness. Stated more scientifically, the evolution of the brain is inextricably twinned with an increase in the height of his center of gravity (emphasis mine).

According to "Gray's Anatomy," a woman's center of gravity is 12 percent lower than a man's (See Fig. 2). This reflects the comparatively larger displacement of her hips and lower torso, a factor attributable to her capacity for childbearing.

The author wishes to emphasize that women's childbearing role is an important one, and women should not be disrespected for this, or belittled for it, even though it is irrefutable evidence that they are lower than men on the evolutionary scale.

2. Weighty Evidence