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RUSH: Elizabeth in Acton, Massachusetts, you\u2019re next on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, sir. How are you?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Fine.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mega-mega dittos.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I just wanted to address that study you spoke of where they said men are sometimes smarter than women and sometimes stupider. I think, you know, if you study history, for several thousand years women have been using, you know, pots of boiling water to clean things and to cook, and it took a little boy in Scotland, James Watt, to look at a pot of boiling water and invent a steam engine. No offense to women. I am one. I have sons and daughters. I love them, but you know something? Men have invented so many wonderful things, probably because their wives complained and they invented something to solve a problem.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wasn\u2019t it a man who invented the brassiere?<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) Yes, probably. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You know, each time a woman gets in a car —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thomas Crapper invented the toilet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s right, that\u2019s right, because women probably complained going out to that outhouse or peeing in a chamber pot wasn\u2019t any fun, excuse me for saying so. <\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, Elizabeth, I\u2019m reminded of an old phrase. I forget who uttered this, some philosopher, and I\u2019ve always cherished this for some reason. I\u2019ve always admired it, and I\u2019ve always found it pretty profound in its own way — and I want to warn you: If you\u2019re a feminist, you are going to hate this. But the philosophy is very simple: ‘A man who thinks he\u2019s smarter than his wife knows not how truly smart she is.\u2019 (interruption) See? Dawn\u2019s not even a feminist and she\u2019s rolling her eyes in there at that because she understands what it means. It\u2019s a pretty serious indictment here for Elizabeth to make. She says men are smarter. Women have been boiling water on the stove for decades, but a man had to invent the steam engine. I don\u2019t think that has anything to do with intelligence, in defense of women. I think they\u2019re different. I don\u2019t know how many women inventors there are. I don\u2019t think it has to do with intelligence. It\u2019s like you can boil it down to the remote control unit. The worst thing you can do is have it in your hand watching TV with a woman and surf around there. Men are prone to just surf around. I used to have a car once. When I lived out in California, I had a car that had a radio that would do an auto-scan of your presets, and it would just scan the stations that were in your presets. The general manager\u2019s secretary had to go with me somewhere to some speaking event. We got in the car and I turned on the scan and for like five minutes I didn\u2019t stop it because I didn\u2019t hear a song that I wanted to hear. I just kept the auto-scan going.<\/p>\n

‘Are you going to stop that at some point?\u2019<\/p>\n

‘No! I haven\u2019t got to the song I want to hear.\u2019<\/p>\n

I\u2019m marveling at the technology that my car radio can do this, and she\u2019s upset that A, it\u2019s happening, and B, that I\u2019m enjoying it — and she wasn\u2019t even my wife! But that doesn\u2019t mean she\u2019s dumber than I was. It\u2019s just different interests, different things intrigue. Like I have my iPhone or I have my computer. It\u2019s not enough for me to be able to use it. I want to know how it works so if something goes wrong I can fix it, or I can describe to the tech what it\u2019s doing wrong so he can fix it fast. Women don\u2019t care. It better come on when you turn it on, and if it doesn\u2019t, there will be hell to pay. There won\u2019t be any curiosity about why it doesn\u2019t work. There will just be anger. This is not anything to do with intelligence. It just has to be with different ways that they use their time. The feminists tried this experiment. They gave little girls GI Joe and gave little boys, what\u2019s her name, Barbie, and the little boys still created war with the two Barbie dolls. The little girls are out there putting outfits on GI Joe. Pure and simple. It\u2019s just different. I don\u2019t know that it indicates any difference in intelligence. It all depends on how you measure this stuff, and then you gotta get down to: What is intelligence? You know, is it what you\u2019ve learned, or is it simple common sense? I choose the latter, and that does lead to problems, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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