Carl Barks comics were one of the first and only things that my dad used to try to connect to me (he's not distant or unloving by any means, but when I was a kid, it was hard for him to "get" me).

1. Uh….. correlation is proof of CORRELATION, which is the point being made.  It's not proof of CAUSATION, but no one's talking about that.

@twitter-126683407:disqus  Hey dude, if building a skyscraper out of false dichotomies is what you need to do to justify liking dumb music, go for it.

@avclub-1b1f9a3e639ecc53f335314fc9d8403b:disqus Oh, he's being critical, but he's also doing absolutely everything in his power to make it seem like hating and dismissing women actually makes sense (he even pulls some egregious misuses of evolutionary psychology in there).

@inko8:disqus  No but see it's FUNNY because you expect her to just immediately reward him, but then she runs off to someone else who's something something axe body spray!

Doesn't it mean trite because of how common and everyday it is?  Is there an implication of oldness?

It implies that physical attractiveness is the female analogue of intelligence.

Couldn't you have picked one of the million-billion articles on the internet that makes that point and ISN'T a not-so-secret apologia of horrible nice-guyness?

No, the worst ad was the Axe Body Spray ad where….. actually, I can just stop right there, can't I?

Okay, is the reviewer confused about the meaning of the word "mundane" or am I?

Damn, you beat me about Raising Hell by two minutes.

Oh, that's easy.  "Peter Piper" and "It's Tricky."

I would just like to point out that, in trying to make the case that liberals are more closed to opposing ideas than conservatives (I THINK that's your point?), you refused to look up information against that idea (and then mocked the thought that you'd actually READ such a thing), but you apparently burned out your…

Jesus.  Okay: http://faculty.virginia.edu…  There's one.  I don't know if you self-identify as conservative, but if you do, it'd be a hilarious demonstration of this exact phenomenon I'm talking about that you refused to spend five seconds looking something up that might give you information that goes against your…

@avclub-8b59528c5bbf7073061271c79ba0e1e0:disqus  Start with John Jost.  Johnathon Haidt is probably next (though he takes a different track, and would never admit he agrees with Jost, a lot of his conclusions are similar, especially in the realm of emotional responses), and then Inmar, Bloom, and Pizarro's work on…

That's because Halloween is the tradition.  That fundamentalist was being as anti-authoritarian as the strawman hippies, just for a different reason.

The baseline is NOT being open to opposing ideas, because of cognitive dissonance.  But there's variability there, and being liberal explains some of that variability.  And you're also kind of proving my point, if you think liberals freak out more, because they're exposing themselves to more counter-attitudinal…

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I'm just going by the research.  Liberals are willing to put up with more information that conflicts with their own beliefs, and they're less prone to anger and disgust, which are the emotions that lead to active rejection.

Well, but then you're not making jokes about liberals; you're making jokes about hypocrites and pretending you're mocking liberals.