What makes you think these people are buying the value meals? As an adult with a somewhat large appetite, I can feed myself off of 3 $1 McDoubles/McChickens/other $1 sandwiches. When my appetite was less, I could feed myself off of 2, sometimes 1. Where I live is a 15 minute drive to any grocery store, which becomes…

I go to a top-20 college in the US. Got into a Facebook fight once with two classmates because I said not to talk to me about Obamacare if you can already afford insurance and they accused me of violating the First Amendment.

Yes, they can censor whatever they like, just like every private website. Just like you can kick someone out of your house for saying something you don't agree with because it's your private residence, or just like you can be kicked out of a privately-owned movie theater because you're talking during a movie.

I'm arguing that what the scientists are "concluding" is speculation. That's generally how it works - they come up with data and then try to find a conclusion to fit that data. In this case, because they're evolutionary psychologists, they decided that it had to be due to evolution. The problem with deciding that is…

Free speech is not applicable on a private website. A website has no obligation to let you say whatever you'd like, or say anything at all.

I wouldn't put that on every "fitness freak", I think it depends on who you're looking at. I know plenty of people that are crazy about fitness, that believe in the idea that you shouldn't diet but make a lifestyle change, eat healthy as much as they can and exercise as a hobby. Yeah, you're right that if they stopped…

When I lost the most weight was when I loved my body. I decided that I wanted to take care of it and head off issues that I know my mom has before I got them myself. When someone shamed me, it made it worse, not better. This seems so straightforward, and I feel like it's mentioned every time this topic comes up but…

You're missing the point, dude. By deciding that, for example, women are more skilled at caregiving because of biology, you eliminate the possibility that that can be changed so on average on a societal level men and women are equally skilled at caregiving. If it's based on biology, then it is unchangeable. If it's…

You cannot judge 'casual sex' in animals. How do you plan on backing up "female animals don't have casual sex"? How do you look at two animals having sex and decide that it was just casual sex and not for reproductive purposes?

Saying "they must come from somewhere, thus it has to be biology" is illogical. They can come from societal norms. Women regret who they lost their virginity to more because as a society we put a huge amount of value on a woman's virginity, while ignoring a man's - from forcing virginity tests on women when they get…

Like wearing clothing and taking modern medicine.

I tried to edit that comment to add another reason as well, but I hit submit after the time limit and it wouldn't let me, and I lost the entire thing. So I'll make it brief: when you decide that something is "just biology", you remove any agency to change it. When you decide, for example, that women love their…

Because these "discoveries" are then used to discriminate against women.

Just pointing this out, since I just did the research for a reply to a comment and it seems relevant:

This study was made up of all American college students. It doesn't say specifically, but it was done by UT Austin, so it's very likely the students are from UT Austin. These are not "widespread social behaviors", these are behaviors of 200 college students in a particular state, who are all influenced by the same…

I cannot STAND these large-scale surveys of adult men and women that try to argue that because they get a certain result, it's biological. These people have been living in society for at least 18 years, people! Do you really think they haven't learned anything about how society works and how they "should" feel?

The sociological, cultural, and historical contexts of your experience and her experience are entirely different. Your school did not teach you well at all.

It's not that he "suggested abortion" - it's that he washed his hands of the situation by refusing to be there while she went through pregnancy, because he wanted an abortion and she wouldn't do it. Once you give up custody, you give up custody. Obviously, I don't know the legal precedent for it, but to use the…

I don't know, I'm of the opinion that once you wash your hands of the child, you wash your hands of him. Once he told her that he would not support her, would not co-parent with her, and had no interest in the child.