The t-shirt I am wearing right now was made about 6 miles from where I sit in east central Texas. That said, most of my clothing was made overseas. Bangladesh frequently comes up, and my "Made in the USA" formal clothing was, I found out later, made in the 1990's in the hellhole of indentured servitude Saipan.

The title of this section looked encouraging. I thought "Being frustrated by the narrow definitions of what it means to be manly or womanly is not misogynist." I know enough women who have manly hobbies and they occasionally get undeserved flak. I am sure the same thing happens to men.

"many of the representations are still so caricatured"

I knew you were joking. However, people I have known in person and read over the internet seem to think oxytocin is a "love chemical."

It is being investigated for this use, but it is not approved. We do not know how safe it is. It is not dangerous enough that we see adverse effects on in small scale, short-term experiments. Don't go snorting oxytocin nasal spray to help break your addictions.

That would a bad idea. Oxytocin is a tool your body uses. It does more than reinforce love. It also reinforces hatred, rage, guilt, fear, inflammation, inability to urinate, lustful obsessions...

Okay, first of all, this is Science Daily, not the actual academic journal. I read the paper and they did not dismiss cultural factors. I am not sure why Science Daily chose to cover this particular study, though, since its scope was narrow and meant to address 2 specific shortcomings in previous research. Actually, I…

"today's charges — some of them pretty damn serious"

"today's charges — some of them pretty damn serious"

In fact, large-scale drug trials are often only tested in a subpopulation. Often drugs are tested in men or on ex-military or college students or people already in other health programs. This helps reduce confounds in data interpretation, but can lead to nasty surprises when we learn that, for example, women under the…

I did some research on pecans and assorted health effects in high fat diet animal models. We asked pecan trade groups and tree nut trade groups for funding because we were doing the research, anyway, and could do more if we had more money.

I agree. I figured a few things:

I once got schooled hard when I said to a close friend of over 15 years that I never knew anyone who was raped. Turns out, she had been raped. Hopefully nobody you know has been, but do not make that assumption.

At the school where I work, I was given a list of committees with openings I could serve on. Every year, almost all the spots on the assault and sexual assault committees are vacant and too many people volunteer to fill them. I had no desire to go anywhere near that, but wondered why people kept wanting spots on…

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It would take a lot more than that to be "feminazi of the century." I read relevant academic papers concerning news events all the time. I probably read 4 or 5 a month. They include, but are not limited to, debt to GDP ratio and economic growth, relationship of rape to fertility, tricyclic drug use in teenagers and…

Grimflamingos almost had a good response, but your response is part of what prevents intelligent discussion. I oppose age of consent laws as they are currently written but have no interest in involving myself with teenagers.

As late as 2001 (the last time I worked at a company that developed forensic test kits), there was a huge backlog of rape evidence that police did not want to throw out, but did not have the technology to properly process. Some time more recently, technology to extract usable evidence from rape kits became available.…

Um, no, that is not what it says. For humans, certain regions are larger, but that means the surrounding regions are smaller. Rats are a very different system unless you live in a housing complex with 4 guys and 4 girls and two of the guys fight to see which one mates with all 4 girls while the other two hide and wait…

Her race made no difference in the final analysis according to the admissions formula. I read an extensive article on the case. In ironic fact, the ones who had lower GPA than her who were admitted, on the whole, had a higher % white students than the entering class. While 8 blacks and hispanics got in ahead of her,…