Yup. I hate it so much. I won't say it's the last academic bastion they've got, because the MRA mentality still permeates plenty of academia. But it's one of the few I can think of with a plurality of adherents still actively looking to justify male supremacy "scientifically."
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Haha that sounds mildly frustrating...
I'd be curious about a mathematical analysis of ideal breeding patterns for humans. Did the research you're referring to most likely dealt with a pattern of civilization similar to what we have today?
My belief is that if you were to measure men and women according to most temperament / innate personality traits - anything that comes down to genetics exclusively - you'd almost always wind up with something that looks a bit like this. (Ignore the specifics being measured here; I'm just using this as an example of…
Agreed. That's the other thing that scares me away. It's all absurdly speculative. And hell, if you're operating under the (probable) assumption that genetics affected and continue to affect culture and vice-versa...10,000-15,000 years is a long-ass time given the burgeoning study of transgenerational epigenetics.…
I was interested in evo psych before I knew evo psych was a thing. Then I started reading up on it and found that the field appears to be dominated - or maybe it's just public perception of the field? - by asshole Neanderthals looking to justify backwards thinking behavior. Now there's this reflexive pushback -…
Bah you beat me to it.
Judging by the rage I'b betting this touches you personally in some way, and I'm truly sorry for whatever happened. My intention was to mock the attorney for what appeared to be a whiny, pathetic complaint about how unfair it was that the Church be dragged into this. I have no doubt that the Church handled things…
Don't worry, I'm pissed at everyone!
The problem there is that the kind of person dumb enough to buy into this magic berry bullshit needs to lionize someone in order to trust them. And they want to believe the easiest conceivable solution that anyone might offer them.
Aerator is back up to $20. Missed it. :-(
Aerator is back up to $20. Missed it. :-(
Yup. To be fair, there's literally nothing he can do to fix this...and if he were really sorry, he'd acknowledge that when asked, clean up his personal life the best he can, and let time and friends/family very slooowly clean up his public image to the extent that's possible.
He reminds me of a drug addict former friend of mine. During his most recent attempt at cleaning up, he sent what was supposed to be a heartfelt apology via e-mail to myself and a friend of ours who he did some truly awful fucking things to. He stole and lied to me - we were roommates - but the shit he pulled with one…
This is a tragic case where a member of a religious group has brought liability on the group for actions he alone may have taken.
I was too young to curse then, and mostly just remember him as a punch line that nobody expected much from anyway. Point taken, though.
I guarantee you'll have never heard "you fat fuck" yelled so many times in New England accents.
That's kind of my point, though. That "lack of a switch" thing makes total sense. I just don't think that's akin to what this writer is describing, which comes across like a case of predation regardless of her age when it began. The genetic relationship is part of it, but not the most significant factor.
I could also be misunderstanding. If the phenomenon is meant to include a whole host of emotional issues outside of "we look alike and are related and attracted to each other" then that's fine. I just bristle at the idea that this type of relationship keeps getting grouped together as in some way similar to that…
I really, reeeeally don't like this GSA thing.