From my experience being a graduate student at Caltech, the main application of evo psych was by nerds trying to convince Caltech women they didn't really belong at Caltech. That's how I've personally experienced this pseudo-field. And that's why I hate it.

I didn't have to take any classes in general relativity. I did the whole advanced track in Misner, Thorne and Wheeler by independent study with Kip Thorne himself. I taught myself the whole book. It was fun. I enjoyed it completely.

I know I exist, but there's no explanation for me in the field of evolutionary psychology, because that's the field where they try to explain why women can't do math using data they don't have from back before people even invented math.

I hate this field. It's not honest, open-minded inquiry. It's a political weapon that's been cleverly disguised as inquiry.

Look at their theory about rape trauma. Rape trauma is caused by women learning over millions of years that rapists make bad fathers? Yes, that's an idea from evo psych.

The people in evo psych published this laughable idea without even consulting experts in traumatology who were publishing in traumatology journals at the time.

How can anyone respect a field like that as a science, when they try to explain rape trauma using data that doesn't exist and they ignore data that does exist?

All they had to do was get a reputable traumatologist on the phone and their hypothesis would have been falsified about five minutes into the conversation.

I have contempt for people who are that lazy-minded who dare to call what they do "science."

Nobody cares what he looks like without panties. And he's not about to adopt any foreign babies. So how is he supposed to get any press these days?

One reason why they're reluctant to report these crimes to the police is that traditionally, the tribal system was supposed to function as the criminal justice system as well as the economic and social welfare system.

The tribal peoples of Afghanistan have always been extremely reluctant to abandon this system, even when they were urged to do so at gunpoint by the socialist government that ruled the country between 1973 and the Soviet invasion.

There's been at least 34 years of armed civil strife in Afghanistan now over the survival of tribal system.

People think this is about religion but it's not. It's about people who have survived an extremely harsh environment using extremely harsh methods of social control. They've been so reluctant to give up their way of life, they've spent 34 years at war and have taken on two superpowers and humbled both of them.

And now what's going to happen? Are they going to embrace Western individualism? There's no such thing as an individual in the tribal system.

But how do you embrace democracy and central government and women's rights if there's no such thing as an individual in your culture?

Once again, I highly recommend the book "The Tragedy of Afghanistan" by Raja Anwar -- especially for feminists and people on the left.

She's forty-two, no steady job, no friends any more, no lovers, an alcoholic chain-smoking foul-mouthed woman, angry about what's on the news and things that happened a quarter of a century ago, who would be homeless if it weren't for my mother. And she's my sister.

Of course she refuses treatment, won't take the meds that are prescribed, won't acknowledge that she's ill.

I had a sister just like that. Are we related?

If she were your sister, if she were your daughter, would you force her out into a world where she'd die under a bridge somewhere? And if not, would you take her into your home, live with the the screaming and the threats and the tears and the certain knowledge that this will all end very badly?

I tried the latter approach of making myself into a martyr and it made me and everyone else in my family ill. Nobody can live like that and nobody should have to.

So then I tried the former approach -- force her out into the world. And she did spend a few nights under a bridge. But at the same time we offered support if she would go on medication and go into rehab. That's the approach that finally worked.

Her life isn't perfect but now she has friends, takes meds and goes to meetings.

She's always full of little facts and figures to prove we're a bunch of dumbsh*ts.

Like: Did you know that 87% of Americans believe in angels?

But at least we never believed in Stalin or Hitler, which is something I can't say about the people in her part of the world.