The problem here being, that if you assume the accused is innocent of the crime of rape, you assume the accuser is guilty of another crime(s).

I've been doing that for over a decade. Copycats.

I've even seen this on semi "professional" blogs. It's horrible.

Exactly—you know what leaps out at me, is that she says, "the kids loved it, and now they want to see it again and again."

...it happens.

It might be the most ridiculous, but...the worst? The second two were way, way worse.

You're depraved. Toys in the 80's were awesome. I know, I was there.

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.

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.