Seeing “I dare you to Mansplain” and “explain this to me” in the same thread warms the cockles of my heart. You’re really winning today.

It’s nice to see smart people in the comments. This is a scientific study asking why female humans are one of the only animals in earth that lose their ability to reproduce fairly early in the overall scheme of life. Most animals, as you pointed out either reproduce until death (like male humans) or spawn and die like…

Because women are physically weaker and are not going to accomplish eating the heads off males.

This IS real science. Maybe YOU should go into science so you would actually know what it is.

Wait wait wait, their reasoning was ALTRUISM, you fucking morons.

Explaining the way science works would not be mansplaining.

That is not dubious. Have you ever written a paper? Done any research?

I don’t understand why people are projecting their personal feelings onto research questions like this. It isn’t a social science study, it is a biological science study.

Absolutely. I don't see why it was necessary to tag cultural issue onto what is a simple scientific question. Our biology doesn't give any thought to our beliefs or cultural norms.

Yeah, I don’t get the snark. Science is about asking and answering such questions.

Ok but right now he’s tweeting about the importance of education and lowering textbook costs and paying teachers better, so like, what can I say? Those are good things to be tweeting about.

I’d say it is Grammy worthy in that inferior talent has been winning Grammys since forever.

USMC. By logistics, I mean that if a young couple decide to get pregnant right before the female soldier leaves for a year-long combat deployment, it is unlikely that she will be able to keep that commitment.

Uh Oh! You are going to get it. The truth will not get you far here.

By putting more women on the front lines, more violence will be directed at women.

There are some logistical issues that are different. No matter how much someone wants to pretend that men and women are exactly the same, some obstacles are not going away.

Why always with the profane ad hominem attacks?

Wow, this is a narrative minefield for you guys, no?

Freakonomics did an episode on this recently. The conclusion was that discrimation has very little to do with the pay gap, but the majority of household and dependent care falling on women does which takes their focus off of their careers. It was a good episode if you havnt heard it.

Put in the extra 20 hours a week that men do, and go into a field that pays more than blogging at Gawker.