Writer Christine Ecobar tries to make this point at Huffington Post. The comments are depressing, and unfortunately shows that the right does not have a monopoly on ill informed idiots. The S word? Are we really still debating that asinine issue?
Hat tip: JJ
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When I was home sick for a luxurious day this week, I actually saw this show for the first time.
It seems designed to make any sentient male break out in hives. Like a giant hen party. Or quilting bee, without the quilt.
It’s also a sign of how the collective American intelligence has declined. Do these women really think they are creating “conversation points” or advancing any kind of intellectual climate at all? When there are intelligent and well-informed women out there, what are we presented with? Whoopi? Joy Behar, a semitic Christian-hating harpy? Or Elizabeth, who coos over every utterance of Sarah Palin? Bawbwa Wawa, whose annual foisting of her “Ten Most Fascinating People” is notable for the lack of mental stimulation or fascination its honorees induce? Please. Make it stop.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who found the comments on Christine’s post depressing.
Ironic that while Daniel was home being appalled at the View ladies for their lack of “mental stimulation” — I am out in the car every day with the kids, and all I have to stimulate my mind of the radio is Beck, Limbaugh, and Hannity. Three hours each, all day long, no free alternatives. If between all three of them they have even one college degree, I’d be shocked, because they give the View ladies a run for their “stoopid” money and then some.
While being much more overtly “hating” about it.
Funny, I just got back from a bowling party that included my daughters homeschooled friends as well as some of her new public school friends. The only difference I noticed between the two groups was that I could have a conversation with the homeschooled children, all the homeschool parents and children thanked us for inviting them, and it wasn’t a homeschooler crawling around on the floor trying to steal peoples game tokens.
YES! That was what bothered me most about Behar’s comments, not that a lot of homeschoolers are “demented” but as Chris says, that the important thig is to surround kids with other kids. Peer pressure is SO not the point of real education, that it’s practically counterproductive imo. Which is, in turn, one of the things I most cherish about home education.
We tried to do a 4-H homeschooler archery class in September and quickly realized it was a clique of kids who spend all their time together, might as well be in school as out if that’s your learning model, sigh. We didn’t go back.