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I happen to feel that the degree of a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.

Lisa Alther 1944- American authoress: Kinflicks (1975)

Ms Alther makes a very good point, and by her criterion feminists – who studiously avoid challenges to their faith positions – aren’t the sharpest knives in the block. We’ve already seen the appeal of dualism to people seeking a simple explanation for the ills of a complex world.

From my communications with feminists I’ve concluded that they’re markedly less intelligent than normal women. Not one of them was willing to engage in a serious exchange of views, and almost all of them rapidly brought out what they evidently considered a winning argument – to call anyone challenging them, including myself, a sexist or a misogynist.

But maybe there’s a sampling issue here. Maybe it’s only the less intelligent ones who are willing to communicate with me. Maybe the more intelligent ones avoid me. Maybe they look like supermodels, and play beach volleyball in their spare time. It’s possible.

There’s an obvious and simple way to discover whether or not feminists are indeed less intelligent than normal women, which is to have prominent feminists take an IQ test and compare the results with the average IQ of normal women. I plan to write to the feminist politicians Harriet Harman, Yvette Cooper and Angela Eagle and ask if they’ll take IQ tests to provide the necessary data. I’ll offer to pay for the tests, so I’m not anticipating any objections.