The new comment rating system has given me an idea. I’d like to feature the most highly rated comment per week. Had I not agreed with yesterday’s results, I’m not so sure I’d be quite so enthusiastic about the idea, but readers picked out a real gem — and, quite surprisingly, one written by a woman. I might even be tempted to feature a “worst comment of the week” as well, but unfortunately the bad ones tend to be lacking not only in terms of logic and ideas, but readability as well. However, if I find one that could provide some entertainment, I’ll include a “worst comment” along with the Comment of the Week.

I know that a fair number of readers – probably a majority – do not actually see the comments, reading most of the articles on RSS, so I think it’s a good idea to bring the outstanding ones to their attention from time to time. And the following comment is certainly a good one. It is funny, honest and impassioned, and I thought it would be perfect for kicking off the new feature.

So The Spearhead presents the first in what we hope will be a long tradition:

Comment of the Week, by “Anonymous”

The reason that there are so few good women in tech is that women are not wired to be technical: everything needs to relate to emotions, intuition, creative arts, etc. In addition, the average woman is not committed to a career; rather, she is committed to “self-fullfillment,” which is a selfish, rather than a group or technical goal.

Harvard President Dr. Lawrence Summers summed it up much more cogently than I can: “It is a fact about our society that [there] is a level of commitment [to a scientific career] that a much higher fraction of married men have been historically prepared to make than of married women.” His remarks about the difference in technical intelligence have been widely discussed, so I will not quote them here.

So the women that feminatzis continue to describe as “smart, independent, and feisty,” are neither smart enough, independent enough, nor feisty enough to make it in a technical/scientific career. Those that try are so committed to special treatment that their contribution to the group is less than zero, as considerable resources are wasted trying to bring them up to speed and covering their asses when they fail. And they do fail. And HR, typically a rats’ nets of women, will let me know that “You’re not trying hard enough to promote women.” Ironic, since I am a woman that came up before the entitlement process began.

I have had some half dozen very good women engineers who reported to me over that past 20 years. They were ALL from the pre-entitlement era. The post-entitlement twits were all worthless – ALL WORTHLESS. It will be a cold day in hell that I hire another woman for my group. If I am forced by the harpies in HR to take on a woman engineer, I am old enough to be able to say “I quit” and go semi-retired to do my own thing.

(ps: No, I’m not a dyke. I have been together with a very fine manly-man for over 30 years.)