To be honest I'm not sure why you're so happy about weakness and need of protection being linked to femininity.

Imagine how much it would be worth if Vintage tournaments happened with any regularity.

They're arguing against the notion of it being in instinctive utterance, like laughter or screaming, and they have good reasons for that. Children gradually learn huh?, much like they learn other words. It could still be a part of a universal grammar, however, or an expansion on an instinctive utterance.

Because interaction is critical to learning language. Early on children learn simple (and often inaccurate) associations between words and objects. Expressing lack of understanding or need for clarification is very useful as children need to grasp more complex things.

I'm not sure I'm completely sold on their argument that huh? is mainly a result of convergent environmental factors. There's no good reason given for why there is only one "maximally unspecified" sound. It seems like the kind of thing that has to develop out of earlier sounds.

They didn't glue two objects together and try to separate them, they were trying to pull apart individual molecules of the glue. Equipment didn't exactly break. It was more like they other glue that they used broke.

Yeah, his point depends on us not trust people who are scientifically illiterate and then immediately demonstrates that he is scientifically illiterate.

"For example, doctors believe that if drug A heals 9 out of 10 people with disease X, then drug A heals disease X because it usually does. A scientist, on the other hand, believes that one exception destroys the whole theory."

You seem to have taken a very strange view on this.

Right but there wasn't a big campaign going on at this exact moment, which is what interests me. They did it because the culture itself is shifting.

Isn't it a really good thing that no movement was needed to make this happen? People will do anything if you yell at them enough. The people who make CoD just decided they were going to include female models on their own. That's miles and miles better than getting browbeaten into it.

Teleology can be simply the study of purposes. A traditional example is that the telos of a hammer is to pound on nails.

Looking at evolution teleologically is perfectly reasonable as long as you moderate it with the knowledge that there is not "progress" and no "direction". All parts of organisms have (or had) a function.

I can’t remember the specific names of a single male-teacher/female-student case that got national attention off the top of my head.

I hope they get a screen writer who just shreds the original book so we get a BDSM story in pop press that isn't portraying people as "sick" or "broken" or "evil". The last time we had that was . . . The Secretary?

The context of the article tells us how its meant to be taken. Stay away from those scary brown men!

While I appreciate the sentiment I can, unfortunately, tell you exactly where this approach leads: Crackpottery. Scientists have been trying to "I'm fed up with you people, go Google it." for a long time and all you get out of that is people who have no idea what you believe or why you believe it. Also, I can't image…

We have stats on how many partners women report having. 2 and 20 are probably both outside some interval they chose, 68% CI or 95% CI most likely.

"Last fall, Tumblr quickly deleted Predditors, a Tumblr that "outed" the public information of Creepshots posters, because moderators thought it revealed private information. It seems that Tumblr doesn't think the non-consenting women — and possibly girls — on the Creepshots Tumblr should expect or deserve the same…

Sucks to be you, I guess.