This is how all the learned analyses should be received

Heheheee... Nice!

Thanks for sharing it with us.

Cheers

Loved Dr. Koslover's E-mail to Professor Ross. What else could the Professor's thesis be but Satire? It's too laughable to be anything else.

And we wonder why are students are so screwed up?

This is downright embarrassing. The knitwit that wrote that article is from UCLA. It is no wonder that the saudis are able to infiltrate our universities so easily. And the saudis are not known for their scholarly minds - but they certainly can spot 'stupid' when they see it.

And we wonder why are students are so screwed up?

Posted by: The Cool Ghoul

Students and society

OT:

Does anyone know if commenter "ssa" got a blog going?

Yea, what Doctuh Koslovuh said.

Woot!

It is true that poor countries that find large resource deposits and exportable commodities often have great difficulty in developing; economically, politically and socially. I think professor Ross has a point that there is a correlation between a highly resource based economy and a lack of women's integration into the work force and hence political power.

However, that correlation is likely to be quite small compared to the contributions of culture and especially Islam.

I read (OK, I skimmed) the article and he skips some data that is not useful to his conclusion. I believe he completely ignores Iran which has had a lot of oil for a long time but has gone from a place where women were quite advanced to one where they have been losing rights and participation in public life ever since the Islamic revolution.

The same point could be made about non oil areas like Gaza under Hammas and Lebanon under Hezbollah.

A resource based economy is problematic for many reasons one of which is the lack of opportunity for women and this has broad implications that go beyond wages and into the relative power and freedom of women. However, this fact is quite weak compared to the limitations placed on women in Islamic societies.

Yes, Professor Ross is quite the satirist, but not quite as funny as Dr. Marc Sageman, who claims that jihadis act out of "boredom".

Add him to the list of pundits who claim that jihadis act out of poverty. Or lack of education. Or nationalism.

They're quite sly pranksters, the lot of them.

Isn't satire supposed to be sarcasm or exaggeration to expose something?
KOSLover is proud that Robert fell for it 'hook, line and sinker'. So, what exactly did this satire prove?

All it proves to me is that when you can't honestly or intellectually refute Mr. Spencer, the liberal/progressives use a supposedly reputable institution (UCLA) to fake a 'scientific study' as an argument. Is that about right KOSLover? When you can't deal with real world events, create a fantasy world where you will always 'win'. Stupid. This is what UCLA will do for your child.

Well, color me embarrassed! I bought into it, too. This one ranks right up there with Swift's "Modest Proposal." He should now focus his research on whether abstinence from alcohol leads to misogyny, or maybe a lack of pork in the diet.... Good stuff!

"The knitwit..."
-- from a posting above

With furrowed brow, and ravelled sleeve of care.

I guess that if one has bored oilmen who are ravaged by poverty and living in a clime affected by global warming, one has all the ingradients of a 9/11 on steroids.

Glad to have that one clarified!

From the author's website

I received my Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University in 1996. From 1996 to 2001 I was an Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. I also spent the 2000 calendar year as a Visiting Scholar at the World Bank in Washington, D.C., and Jakarta, Indonesia. I'm now an Associate Professor of Political Science at UCLA; I'm also the Chairman of the International Development Studies program, and Acting Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies.

My research deals with political economy, democratization, natural resources, and poverty in the developing world - particularly (but not exclusively) in Southeast Asia. My main project at the moment is a book on the "resource curse" that explains why countries with lots of mineral wealth tend to do worse than countries with less resource wealth.

BRILLIANT!

It reads like an extract from William Donaldson's THE HENRY ROOT LETTERS.

Well, suffice it to say that this political science toad (warts and all) knows NOTHING about women or Islam ...

... and as far as I am concerned he came come back as a woman in Somalia and be introduced to all the joyas of Islam there. Or Saudi Arabia.

I hate people like this. They're so ideologically intent (Leftist in this case) and they are so interested in getting their next paper out there that they will ignore the suffering, literally, of millions.

He isn't just abetting these guys ... he's really AIDING them.

And I want to know where the money is coming from.

Concerned Citizen provided a quote from the author's website:

My main project at the moment is a book on the "resource curse" that explains why countries with lots of mineral wealth tend to do worse than countries with less resource wealth.

Hmmm, I've got a suggestion for exorcising the poor Saudis, Emirates, et al of their "resource curse". This could be a win-win situation.

Another fool from the “hollow halls of academia or alchemy” conjuring up self-serving hypothesis, gender abuse into oil.
Even self-deceived wonders such as this professor are in want and need of 15 minutes of fame.

from the last page [p. 27] of the professor's 50!-page article:

"Of course, oil wealth does not NECESSARILY [wholebrainer: emphasis in orig.] harm the status of women. Seven countries have produced significant quantities of oil and gas, but still made faster progress on gender equality than we would expect based on their income: Norway, New Zealand, Australia, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Syria, and Mexico. The first three countries are probably exceptions to the general pattern because of reasons implied by the model [wholebrainer: it couldn't possibly be because they're "Christian" nations]: since women already had a large presence in the non-traded sector (thanks to the size and diversification of these economies), rising oil exports did not crowd them out of the labor market. The two Central Asian states were strongly affected by many years of Soviet rule, which promoted the role of women through administrative fiat; this may have inoculated them against oil-induced patriarchy [wholebrainer: maybe the UN could send some Russian doctors to "innoculate" the other suffering "states"].

Perhaps the most interesting exceptions are Syria and Mexico: women in both states may have benefited from many years of rule by secular [wholebrainer: but "Islam" has NOTHING to do with it...], left-of-center parties that showed an interest in women’s rights. Mexico also gained from its proximity to the U.S. market [wholebrainer: NOT to our, or because of their, "Christianity"], which allowed it develop a large, low-wage export-oriented manufacturing sector along the border – which pulled women into the labor market despite the flow of oil rents. These cases show that both good fortune, and a committed government, can sometimes counteract the perverse effects of oil on the status of women."

*****

I mean, ya gotta give the man SOME credit: he DOES provide 20+ pages of references and charts...And he's so mindful of further hurting any whittle Oil-damaged women as to include Saudi Arabian and UAE-an women on the "sufferage" chart [p. 42] as having gained the right to vote in 2005! though they have NO SUCH RIGHT, all "so they will not be excluded from [it]."

Want to save yourself the bother of reading the first 27 pages? Just skip to the [sideways] tree diagram on p. 39. In a nut-job-shell it sums up the "Oil & Women" problem as neatly as those illustrated Darwinian-everything-evolved-from-slime "trees" do.

I suppose it is just a matter of time when we will see feminist groups such as NOW marching in front of the big oil company buildings with placards saying --"Down with oil, oil suppresses women".

No doubt lawsuits will follow charging that the oil companies knew full well that pumping oil from certain countries was going to lead to the suppression of women. Of course Prof. Ross's study will be the trial lawyers basis for these multi-billion lawsuits to be brought against these companies.

Look out Professor Ross, those subpoenas may soon becoming for you to testify as an expert witness on how oil suppresses women.-- And who knows, maybe these sleezy trial lawyers can convince a jury.

I can't stand it anymore.

At the risk of seeming anal, I need to correct my previous statement.

WAS: And we wonder why are students are so screwed up?

Should read: And we wonder why our students are so screwed up?

Haha. ZING!

It reminds me of another important study on grasshoppers. If you train one to jump at your order and then you cut the six legs one by one, the length of the jump decreases. When no legs are left and you say :jump! The grasshoppers doesn't jump.
We have demonstrated the link between legs and sound, if you cut all the legs of a grasshoppers, it becomes deaf!
Buraq