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History of Feminism

seabeyond

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25. i am having a blast reading replies. this i think is my favorite. i want it.

Reply to ismnotwasm (Reply #23)

Thu Apr 17, 2014, 07:46 AM

Apr 2014

is it really that much of a stretch to say that a lot of our behavior is rooted in evolutionary adaptations?"

Yes. Absent identifying specific mechanisms, it is pretty shitty science to hinge human behaviour - which is a fuzzily defined collection of hugely varied and almost always non-uniform traits - on conjectures about explanatory adaptations. There are massive confounding variables that can not be properly isolated, profoundly culturally driven assumptions about the "universal" human condition and experience that cannot be properly tested, and a lack of rigour necessary to even begin to ask these questions within the field of evo-psych.

Your statement presumes so very, very much but you act as though it is commonsensical. That is the precise stance taken by evo-psych as a whole and it is extremely wrongheaded.

this is how i feel about the issue.

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Is Evo Psych the misogynistic new religion? [View all] boston bean Apr 2014 OP

YES... yes i tell you. yes yes yes. and it has become so clear over the last 5 yrs. seabeyond Apr 2014 #1

oh. and btw... a lot of the men on the right like to use it. man thing. not just for the left. seabeyond Apr 2014 #2

maybe I should remove "liberal" boston bean Apr 2014 #3

Not necessarily Shivering Jemmy Apr 2014 #4

I think anything that makes the case for defined gender roles boston bean Apr 2014 #5

the real problem. they take the conditioned who we are today and try to prove it with guessing seabeyond Apr 2014 #6

another problem. huge in my book. they attribute our behavior to beginning of time guesses instead seabeyond Apr 2014 #7

that is why it is a BS pseudoscience. Nature vs. Nuture is legitmate. Tuesday Afternoon Apr 2014 #8

It is sick CFLDem Apr 2014 #9

Is this some sort of schtick? boston bean Apr 2014 #11

My only condescension is towards the patriarchy. n/t CFLDem Apr 2014 #12

women should hold on to her femininity at all cost and wear frilly summer dresses to work, seabeyond Apr 2014 #14

Women can wear whatever the heck they want to work CFLDem Apr 2014 #15

Interesting allegation. LanternWaste Apr 2014 #16

I'm not buying it. This is too much of a contradiction to your prior posting history. boston bean Apr 2014 #17

Listen I'm not here to argue. CFLDem Apr 2014 #18

I have gotten emails concerning your participation here. boston bean Apr 2014 #20

Thanks for your understanding boston! CFLDem Apr 2014 #22

i am thinking.... mocking. nt seabeyond Apr 2014 #19

I do not for one moment believe said poster has had an epiphany or a revelation. LanternWaste Apr 2014 #21

yup. i made my feelings clear in a post that i edited. i felt a slight chance there might seabeyond Apr 2014 #13

No argument with you Shivering Jemmy Apr 2014 #10

Ahem ismnotwasm Apr 2014 #23

lap dancers get better tips when they are ovulating??? boston bean Apr 2014 #24

i am having a blast reading replies. this i think is my favorite. i want it. seabeyond Apr 2014 #25

It's made itself ridiculous because it's focuses so much on gender and sex ismnotwasm Apr 2014 #26

prior to my computer crashing, i had three different academic articles from scientists themselves seabeyond Apr 2014 #27