It is a pretty standard thing for anthropologists to discuss differences in body movement and postures. In my anthropology class it was specifically mentioned that the way western women hold themselves is more conducive to hip swaying.

I understand this, but I think it is a demonstrably false dichotomy springing from an essentialist view point.

I would like to know how one is not being nurtured in the womb, isn't that the place where nurturing begins? Babies actually come out crying differently based on the language their mothers speak, because in utero does not mean "in an isolation tank".

But what about the average age of first intercourse, marriage and childbearing? On average don't those who practice those religions get married and start families a whole lot earlier? Is that something that we actually want to encourage? Nothing is a greater predictor of divorce than early marriage. Not mention having…

Why do I get the sense that we are all secretly rooting for the apocalypse if only to end the age of hyper-referential-post-everything? Make something new and interesting, and I'll stop being a culture drop-out, and think about buying it. No one can sell me my past, I have it, I love it, and have no need for new one.

In the interest of keeping up with the Christian Jonses, I am NOT gonna let some uppity teacher make my kid learn the *Pythagorean theorem, that heathen thought he saw Zeus in mathematics, and I can't have my kid turnin' away from Jesus to join a Greek mystery cult.

Looks like I saved myself a boatload four years ago when I made a slit in thrift store blanket and poked my head through it. It provides cozy goodness to this day.

I also seem to have won a kind of PMS lottery, 90% of the time my PMS is thisclose to meeting the criteria for a manic episode, I have energy in spades, and all the good things that come with that, elevated mood, creativity, etc., then my period arrives and my body realizes that it has only had 13-15 hrs. of sleep in…

I attribute my "pms" crankiness to all the usual things that make a person irritable. I haven't slept , I am in pain, and some asshole had the temerity to deny my experience as being a just a woman thing having something to do with emotions(also, how is that emotions are somehow considered "not real"?). Yes my…

You implied that her addiction had more to do with her child's illness than vaccines. You may not have meant that, but that is the suggestion. It is natural for a reader to infer that you think her behavior had more to do with her kid than vaccines. Your case is that vaccines and autism are not correlated, but you…

So, a) there's no known link between autism and opiate use by a pregnant woman, and b) nowhere is there an indication that she abused drugs while pregnant. So you can turn the judgement dial down.

People take far too much credit for who and what they are, liberals and conservatives alike. It's a nice thought that somehow I earned being *liberal, either by reasoning myself into it or having some personal story about how screwed over I got by conservative policies or ideologies. However, that would make me no…

Sure I find Scalia enraging, in part for the reasons you mentioned, but I can't help but think that the man is a troll. He consistently takes the most absurd positions possible, seemingly because he knows he's smart enough to defend them. He then enjoys the intellectual exercise, but also enjoys the attention. So I…

Clearly this study is misleading. While there may be a gene in humans and mice that causes some of them to be more nurturing than the other mice, if there were no other genes involved in caring for wee mice then all the mice who didn't have this gene would just neglect their offspring totally, they would die, and that…

Isn't the fact that men have recently allowed themselves to identify as emotional creatures with needs, in part to get along with their empowered women a sign that they have "flexibility, hustle, and an expansive sense of identity."(well flexibility and expansive identity at least)? Where Rosin sees the phenomenon of…

I am not really into Freudian psych., but when I hear the phrase "larger and more mature woman" I don't think "that's a person who has got their survival shit down", I think "mom"(and being a mother certainly doesn't enhance your survival). So it is just as likely that stressed men might want someone who looks like…