Better include the religion of nationalism with that.

meh. If you purposely choose your relationships to be unequal to your advantage so the other person feels less free to leave, this is called exploitation. When people enter into relationships with exploitative aims, they're always surprised when it blows up in their faces. How dare this lesser person upset the order…

Came here to post something similar. Thanks. Unbelievable that this author seems to think we should just shut up about the need for mental health care and focus on gun control already. As if it were plausible for everyone in the nation to focus on just one issue at a time. If that were the case, nothing would get…

Lie is a strong word. More a muddling of nomenclature.

This was just towards the end of Kafka's life. He would have certainly appreciated the irony here if he had heard of this.

Yes. Sometimes referred to as the double hermeneutic (usually when describing the feedback between the observer and society). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_hermeneutic

Lol. What? Are you serious?

You guys are debating this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kin_selection

That's a big should. Actually, the more rational thing would be to recognize that internalized sexism might be limiting your horizons and then to expand them accordingly. It's about recognizing and correcting for your own prejudices. The first step is admitting that you are already biased. Of course keeping a…

I don't know if I'm being cynical or not, but it's the only thing that makes sense to me. Otherwise, it's the defense's case that would have been in need of sanitizing, not the prosecution's.

This is actually kind of a disturbing statement to me. It seems he's alluding to the possibility that the jury wasn't made aware that she's sexually active or rumored to be. As a matter of fact, I'll bet that's exactly what he's saying.

Pretty much. The only reason why they don't display this attitude publicly is because they believe it's considered "naughty" (political correctness) or because being possibly wrong is excusable as long as you aren't the only one (herd mentality), not because it's illogical and incorrect.

I've always felt that belief in one was a kind of conditioning for believing in the other. Both promise reward for belief and punishment for doubt.

And of course, among the traditions that are most ardently defended are those surrounding child-rearing. You should've seen the flame-wars when they put up an article on spanking.

I think that a holiday tradition encouraging people to lie to their kids is worthy of some analysis.

I like the Santa Claus lie for a couple of reasons: If a child finds out that Santa isn't real, maybe the child's eyes will be opened to the possibility that Santa isn't the only fiction that people are told to believe in. Also, it's good to know that even mom and dad will lie to you, even though there seems to be…

When you are checking a person out, it's about you not that person. So just don't stare and be obvious about it. Don't make it about them if you don't know if they would welcome that kind of attention from you. Duh. Nothing wrong with looking at people's bodies. Nothing wrong with desire. Just remember, this is…

I get it. Because the "technological industrial world" gave him the knowledge necessary to critique it, he should be grateful by ignoring this knowledge and covering for it instead. Otherwise, he'd be disloyal? You're logic (which I assume you derived from "growing up in a technological industrial world" yourself)…

lol?

First of all, you're setting up straw men. Also your statement: "1500 species of animal display some form of homosexuality, they are not making some concerted choice in their lifestyle." Most certainly different individuals of these respective species tend to display more or less homosexual or heterosexual…