Every time I find out I'm reading something an evolutionary psychologist says, my eyes glaze over and bile wells up in my diaphragm.

Evolutionary psychology. The go "science" of every person who wants their sexism confirmed.

'Kill for sex' = exact opposite of 'drive for reproductive success.' I studied evolutionary psychology and this evopsych crap is just dumb. Maybe women kill for money because they have less of it, and they kill while in a caregiver role because they do a lot of caregiving and kill weaker people because they want to…

I think it's that SO MANY women serial killers are ashamed to come out and say "I am a serial killer" and then there's this misconception that there are none out there, ya know? Like it's a dirty word or something. Ladies, if you kill multiple people in a methodical or compulsive way, NEWSFLASH! You are a serial…

Well first of all, serial killling =/= gathering food.

There's a special place in hell for women serial killers who don't help other women serial kill.

#LeanIn

Cause men never kill for resources like gold or land, you know. I mean...we have war for that; TOTALLY a different thing.

ARE YOU TRYING TO SAY THAT PREDATORS PREY ON THOSE THEY PERCEIVE AS WEAKER THAN THEM?

I said something to this effect about evo psych not too long ago and a super fun dude showed up and accused me of 1) not being a scientist and 2) not being worthy of having an opinion on the field.

YUP

"It was interesting to me to have my patriarchal bias confirmed. No, I didn't think of this from any other angle - why do you ask?"

That was very interesting to me, as an evolutionary psychologist

"That was very interesting to me, as an evolutionary psychologist, that it reflects kind of ancestral tendencies."

Lol I came here to jokingly post "I'm gonna emotional abuse my children just like everybody else duh"

This worked for my dad, and I had to go pick up dog shit in the yard when I'd bug my sister. But it also assumes that the child will comply with the system and respect the dictatorial authority of the parent, which I did. The tricky thing is that if you have a kid who objects to this authority and tells you to go fuck…

A well placed sarcastic or cutting remark can work wonders!

Ugh, you don't need to hit your kid to get them to behave. Just do what my mother did - passive-aggressive phrasing, gaslighting, and a heady blend of guilt and shame. It's that easy!

I feel like punishment options are nearly endless if you take into account physical labor. My parents had me doing my fair share of chores in the first place, and when I broke the rules I would have to pick up a chore they knew I hated or — even better — get resigned to some sort of Sisyphean errand. Examples: "Weed…

The same way you discipline your dog.