Oh for fucks sake

Today, my new favorite blogger at the Chronicle, Marty Nemko, finds the real lesson in Tim Russert's death:

Tim Russert’s untimely death from a sudden heart attack reminded me of the dramatic 50+-year-long gender disparity against men in health care research and outreach.

Nemko claims that "for the past 50+ years, the overwhelming majority of health care research has been on women’s health" citing as evidence:

. . . when I searched PubMed . . . I found 22,304 articles with the keywords “women’s health,” but only 586 
with “men’s health.”

Holy crap... 97% of all medical research is about tits and ovaries? Now that is alarming... so alarming that you almost wonder if there is some huge and obvious logical flaw in his argument...

A sad day for whitey

The Chronicle's new guest blogger, Marty Nemko, writes about attending a graduation for masters students at SFSU where white men were marginalized, cruelly excluded and made to feel unwanted at their own graduation:

I wondered how the straight white male graduates must have felt. . . I wondered how many, in their heart of hearts, felt sadness or anger at being excluded.

How were white straight men "excluded"? According to Nemko, all of the speakers were minorities -- except, well:

the retiring chair, a white man who said that his vision for the counseling department is to create a program in counseling the incarcerated, disproportionately minority.

Race traitor!  And:

... [a] professor handed out four student awards: three to Latinos and one to a white male who had been transgendered and did his thesis on transgender counseling.

And whites who are queer don't fucking count.

I am bookmarking this guy as I'm sure that more delightful insights are ahead.