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C IV ILIZ ATION AL C ONTR IBU TIONS

RYAN CAMPBELLAUGUST 22, 2017
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R yan Cam pbell

A simple apostate from modernity who takes pleasure in pointing out blatant leftist hypocrisy,
mocking SJW nonsense and a little thought-criminality from time to time.

Recently we had another one of those cringe-worthy clickbait responses to some troll or random
Internet nobody as Steve Adler, the mayor of Austin, Texas replied to an angry email from some
 dude who was upset about those women-only Wonder Woman screenings (which by the
way, may have been illegal).

Regardless, a women-only, trigger-warned, safe space screening should be met with eye-rolling
and mockery by any healthy man (and woman for that matter). Instead this guy got triggered
himself, saying in part,

Achievements by the second rate gender pale in comparison to virtually everything great in human history was
accomplished by men, not women. If Austin does not host a men only counter event, I will never visit Austin
and will welcome its deterioration.

Then came Mayor Adleys absolutely epic response.

I am writing to alert you that your email account has been hacked by an unfortunate and unusually hostile
individual. Please remedy your accounts security right away, lest this persons uninformed and sexist rantings
give you a bad name. After all, we men have to look out for each other!

Barf.

The next part merits a bit of a closer inspection though.

Can you imagine if someone thought that you didnt know women could serve in our combat units now without
exclusion?

Can you imagine if someone didnt know that women make up only 14.6 percent of the
military, 2.3 percent of combat deaths and theres an odd tendency for pregnancies to
skyrocket right before deployment into a hostile region?

What if someone thought you didnt know that women invented medical syrin ges, life rafts, fire escapes, central
and solar heating, a war-time communications system for radio -controlling torpedoes that laid the technological
foundations for everything from Wi -Fi to GPS, and beer?

Okay, I know there are a bunch of often contradictory stories about who invented what, but lets
go with the mainstream view here and run down the list.

Medical Syringe Adler is referring to Letitia Mumford Geer, who patented a one-hand
operated syringe that is the basis for most modern medical syringes. Or at least thats what her
30 word Wikipedia page says. In fact, there are 10 different figures listed on the Wikipedia page
regarding the invention of the syringe. Nine of the ten entriesincluding Charles Pravaz and
Alexander Wood, who developed a medical hypodermic syringe in 1853are men.
Life Raft Congrats to Maria Beasley for patenting two improved life raft designs. [Bold
mine]
Central and Solar Heating Maria Telkes worked on solar energy technology and is known
for creating the first thermoelectric power generator in 1947 designing the first solar heating
system for the Dover Sun House and the first thermoelectric refrigerator. Thats some good
work Maria, albeit a bit specific. Anyways, I should note that Augustin Mouchot and his glorious
mustache invented the earliest known solar-powered engine.
A War-Time Communications System for Radio-Controlling Torpedoes If you need to be
this specific, you know youre really reaching. Anyways, this refers to Hedy Lamarr, but the
 story is a bit more complex than Adley leaves you to believe,

During World War II, Lamarr learned that radio-controlled torpedoes, which could be important in the naval
war, could easily be jammed, thereby causing the torpedo to go off course. With the knowledge she had gained
about torpedoes from her first husband, she came up with the idea of somehow creating a frequency -hopping
signal that could not be tracked or jammed. She contacted her friend, composer and pianist George Antheil, to
help her develop a device for doing that, and he succeeded by synchronizing a miniaturized player -piano
mechanism with radio signals. They drafted designs for the frequency -hopping system which they patented.
[Bold mine again]

This laid the technological foundations for GPS and WiFi? I guess it did, along with many,
many, many other things. And of course, Roger Easton (GPS) and Vic Hayes (WiFi) should get
the most of the credit (although there were plenty of other men involved for each).

Beer Oh for fucks sake Apparently the author Jane Peyton made the case that beer was
invented by women. But beer dates back into prehistory, possibly as far back as 9500 BC. So
honestly, we have as good an idea about who invented beer as we do about who invented fire.
(Other than we can probably assume it was men in both cases.)

Back to our intrepid mayor

And I hesitate to imagine how embarrassed youd be if someone thought you were upset that a private business
was realizing a business opportunity by reserving one screening this weekend for women to see a superhero
movie.

And imagine how embarrassed you would be if people read this and wondered why you were
spending all this time responding to some random email in a way that might get you picked up
by Upworthy rather than actually doing your job as mayor of a large city.

The Male Contribution To Civilization

We hear much about how there would be no war if women were in charge and toxic
masculinity and about some great female accomplishment that we undervalue and so on. We
hear endlessly about how we owe this or that to women. One of many such examples would be
Stephen Colbert bloviating that, Did you know that the first computer, ENIAC, was
programmed by six female mathematicians? If it werent for those pioneering women, we might
not have computers at all.

Is anyone stupid enough to actually believe that we wouldnt have computers if it werent for
womens contribution? Its incredible how people delude themselves into believing this or
the overhyped contribution of Catherine Johnson to NASA or that Ada Lovelace inspired the
modern computer or many other such myths.

Indeed, it reminds me of this old meme:

And the male response:
 Normally, common decency and politeness would demand we let the wildly disproportionate
male contribution go unmentioned. But with all the anti-male hysteria and pandering to the rare
female contribution to the highest echelons of society, the record needs to be set straight.

Indeed, the male contribution to science is overwhelming. On the website ScienceHeroes.com, it

makes the claim that science has saved the lives of over 5.34 billion people. And while such
numbers are difficult to measure, they are certainly defensible. Those it credits with saving over
a billion are two teams:

Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch (synthetic fertilizer): 2,720,000,000 lives saved
Karl Landsteiner and Richard Lewisohn (blood transfusions): 1,094,000,000 lives saved

Those four men alone have possibly saved more lives than the total that have died in every war
in recorded history. The site has the top 105 scientists listed. So I calculated the male and female
numbers. For teams, I gave credit to each scientist for the proportional number of lives their
invention is estimated to have saved. Heres the final tally:

Men: 98 Scientists, 5,534,198,714 lives saved

Women: 7 Scientists, 50,578,286 lives saved
Ratio: Scientists 14 to 1, Lives Saved 109 to 1
 If you think of the truly world-changing inventions, basically all of them were by men:

Printing Press (Johannes Gutenberg)

Steam Engine (Thomas Newcomen and James Watt)
Light Bulb (Thomas Edison)
Airplane (The Wright Brothers)
Computer (Allen Turing and others)
Internet (Tim Berners-Lee and others)

Sorry Hollywood, men did this.

Charles Murray actually took up the task of categorizing the great achievers between 800 BC and
1950 in his book Human Accomplishment. He used a historiometric study, which analyzes the
space devoted to each individual in neutral history texts. In all, he comes up with 4002
significant figures in the fields of sciences, medicine, technology, philosophy, music, art and
literature. Of those, only 88, or 2.2 percent are women.

Were women just left out? Unlikely. Murray reviews books on women in science and finds no
entries that should have been included in his own analysis but were missed by the mainstream
sources.

The highest scoring woman was Murasaki Shikibu, who came in third in Japanese
literature. Marie Curie is the second highest ranking woman, who comes in 14th in physics
(which is actually behind her rarely-mentioned husband Pierre, who placed 10th).
As far as Nobel prizes go, Murray again,

In the first and second halves of the century respectively, women won four and seven prizes in the sciences, and
five and four prizes in literature. In percentage terms, their proportion decreased marg inally.

Thats 4% of the prizes (not including the peace prize, which men have won
disproportionately as well) from 1900 to 1950 and 3 percent from 1951 to 2000. That should put
to rest the idea that the only reason men have achieved more is because of discrimination. Is
anyone arguing there was more discrimination against women in the second half of the
20th century than the first?

Not a single woman had won the Nobel Prize in Economics until 2009 and none had won the
Fields medal in Mathematics until 2014.

Murrays review leaves out significant figures in economics, architecture and engineering,
business, politics and the military, but we can expect that the results would be similar. Indeed,
whether good or bad, progress is almost always pushed by men. Of all the religions that have
come about, for all their virtues and faults, virtually all have been started by men. From Abraham
to Jesus, Mohammed and Joseph Smith, to Zarathustra and Siddhartha Gautama. The only
noteworthy exception is Mary Baker Eddy, who started the Christian Science denomination of
Christianity. I guess Wicca was started by women too, particularly Doreen Valiente.

The great secular thinkers, from Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Seneca, Kant, Locke, Hume and
Descartes to Confucius, Lao Tzu, Adi Sankara and Ibn Khaldun were, of course, almost all men.

The greatest statesmen (many of whom were, of course, not so great), from Cyrus the Great to
Julius Caesar to Charlemagne to Tokugawa Leyasu to George Washington to Winston Churchill
were, quite obviously, men.

Virtually every major business from Standard Oil and U.S. Steel to Microsoft and Google were
founded by men. Only 14 of the 100 richest people in the United States are women. Most of
those were from inheritance (particularly through Sam Walton or James Coxs fortune) or
marriage. Some became big players in companys their father started, such as Abigail Johnson.
But only one started the business from the ground up, Marian Ilitch, who started Little Caesars
Pizza with her husband Michael. And when you look back in history, it is even more one-sided.

Wealth creation is predominantly the field of men. Indeed, as of January, 2017, women made up
only 28 of the CEOs for companies in the S&P 500. In other words, 5.6 percent, a fact that
feminists endlessly complain about.

Much the same could be said for charities. The largest charity in the United States is the United
Way, which was founded by four men and one woman. Of the remaining top ten biggest
charities, seven were started by men, one by three women (Boys and Girls Club for America)
and the Salvation Army was started by William and Catherine Booth.

Rolling Stones list of 100 greatest musicians of all time includes 10 women and two bands with
both men and women. The rest are all men. Is that just because The Rolling Stonethe magazine
that published the most blatant rape hoax since Tawana Brawleyis misogynistic? Ill let you
decide. I didnt feel the need to count for their list of the 100 greatest guitarists. Their list of top
50 comics is, despite pretty blatant political correctness (Wanda Sykes makes the list), still
mostly male.

A brief perusal through the National Inventors Hall of Fame list of inducteesshows the vast
majority of their inductees have been men too. All 100 of the directors of the AFIs Top
100 movies selected in 2007 movies were men. Three quarters of the Pulitzer Prizes for
nonfiction between 1995 and 2014 went to men and even in 2011, 64 percent of the prizes for
journalism. The architect of the Burj Khalifiathe tallest building in the worldwas Adrian
Smith. The number two spot goes to the Chinese man Jun Xia. David Childswas the architect for
the Freedom Tower, which is the tallest building in the United States.

A bit phallic, but incredibly impressive nonetheless

The vast majority of such architects were men. As were the engineers who have designed and
overseen many of the worlds most magnificent wonders, from things like Parthenon in the
ancient world to things like the Chunneltoday.

And of course, it was almost exclusively men who built those buildings along with most
everything else. This stretches back to prehistory when men did the hunting, shelter-building and
defending. Today, we shouldnt overlook the average man, who dominate in professions such as
construction, maintenance and engineering that hold up the infrastructure of society as well as
other critical professions such as doctor, entrepreneur and firefighter. On the other hand, women
mostly work in the helping and caring professionsthat often mimic motherhood (and sometimes
partially replace it, such as in the case of daycare workers).

Returning to the pioneers, we find that the beginning of jazz is often attributed to Buddy Bolden.
We dont know who invented the Blues, but all of its early founders, from Robert Johnson to
W.C. Handy were men. Rock is credited to Chuck Berry. Rap to DJ Koll Herc.
James Naismith invented basketball, Abner Doubleday invented baseball, Walter Camp invented
football, James Creighton invented hockey and a bunch of ancient Athenians, almost certainly
male, started the original Olympics.

The highest a woman has ever ranked in the FIDE World Rankings of chess grandmasters
is eighth. And despite Serena Williams complaining that John McEnroes claims shed be ranked
around 700 in mens tennis, Williams and her sister got obliterated by Karsten Braasch, who
ranked 203rd in mens tennis at the time. And for all that talk about how the U.S. womens soccer
team is underpaid, well, it did lose to a 15-year old boys team 5-2. Indeed, across the board,
female individual athletic records are about that of a 14 or 15 year boys.

You could go on and on into all sorts of things.

Women are by no means useless. They are critical for raising children, taking care of the home,
inspiring and helping their husbands and generally cause less violence and mayhem then men do.
But the endless feminist propaganda has obscured the truth and rendered the male sex as being
somewhere between useless and evil in many peoples minds. Such blatant fallacies, along with
the virtue signaling of mayor Adley and the like, needs to be put to rest.

The male contribution to civilization is almost incalculable and certainly indispensable.

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