I love psychology, in part because I love those theoretical explorations of what we think and feel and how and especially why, but I agree with the thrust of what you're saying. The math doesn't sufficiently prove the intuitive whyfors.
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It kind of sounds mean, but I agree. I have an anxiety disorder and even I don't worry that much. If someone gets that overwhelmed by fear that often over routine activities, it's dysfunctional. In a way it's reasonable: driving is freaking dangerous and it's a loved one. Still, the chances that a particular person…
You have a gift for gifs.
I think that it is productive some times, in some ways, on some scales. Hedged about with conditions, yes. And oddly optimistic, in a roundabout way.
Yeah, you have my sympathy. Totally with you on that. I'd like it if everyone behaved exactly according to my values, too.
Agreed. Or, at least, potentially. There are too many unproven presumptions about how hunter-gatherer societies worked.
Intended as? Serves as? Two different things. Also, science doesn't exist independently of people.
Should society have enough integrity to adopt and administer them
And what do you think about evolutionary biology that shows women evolved to be promiscuous?
As if the "science" itself is not susceptible to having the choice of research and its interpretation influenced by pre-existing stereotypes? The thing here is that the more common sexist biases to confirm are traditionally gender essentialist biases, because those are, um, traditional and mainstream. Therefore…
That is precisely why we did it, I think. We figured it'd be gratifying precisely because it's a common image.
Funny how that works. All I got out of it that monogamy in our current culture is reflexively hetero normative and can reinforce gender essentialism, not anything you said. Does this mean monogamy is innately that way? No, but, like any custom, it has baggage, including some the author didn't touch on.
You can only play god when you're putting the life of woman at stake.
I tend to tacitly side with the plaintiffs in allegations of rape, sexual harassment, and discrimination. Not guilty until proven innocent, just a somewhat higher bar for reasonable doubt. It's too hard to go public with this kind of thing to do it lightly. The sad thing to me is that I think the same people quick…
He should have gotten me to do it, I do a much better Warhol.
To me, old SciFi has a certain...charming, clumsy enthusiasm. A characteristic sort of wide-eyed wonder looking at the infinite possibilities of the future and of the universe. (aka "Why I love original Star Trek more than NG"). It's not something I sense very often in modern SciFi. The genre is too established,…
I'm sure someone has said it, out of bitterness or as dark humor, but ... it's not, like, on every meeting agenda at the secret feminazi meetings.
I think you've got that backward. It's not that women need to be catered to like special flowers, it's more that the default person is a man, especially in tech. In my niche, for example (which doesn't even have the excuse of being about sex), we have long been inclined to picture our default user as male.…
I think what stelae said is actually okay, all else being equal. To say to someone,