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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
TinaS1
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Thanks Laurel for talking some sense.
I was actually wondering about that, too...the "mating" would have had to have taken place literally just moments before, with alternate males pounding away. This is the experience of some mammals with well-defined heat cycles (not all) but certainly not the norm with any group of humans, even the most "primitive".
Strange how the ev-psych people can never come up with anything that even vaguely resembles a real-world scenario or anything that looks like human culture as we know it today. If any of this ev-psych stuff had any validity don't you think some vestiges of, oh, for example extreme female promiscuity would remain today? And yet in what culture do we find female promiscuity to be a societal norm? (of course as an exceptional, morally condemned or marginal activity-- e.g. prostitution--it can be found in every culture) Are the ev-psych people really suggesting that all cultures, everywhere, developed a set of sexual mores and behaviors that run exactly COUNTER to the way we supposedly "evolved"? Why would that happen?
What culture runs itself on the basis of no marriage, just men mating indiscriminately with unknown women, then abandoning them for the next anonymous woman and so on...in fact, can any example of such a culture be found? What would it look like? I mean, you are basically talking about no families here--can anybody give an example of this sexual behavior we have supposedly evolved to have? Is there any real world example of it in a society? I mean, the hippies tried communes, all kinds of free sex and no marriage in sight and they didn't exactly catch on, you know.
It is possible to find girls who are pregnant and have no idea who the father is, but, as Laurel pointed out, it's socially abhorrent (esp. in traditional societies and in the past in ours) and insanely risky and dangerous to the child and mother, and if anything is clear, it's that we did NOT evolve to have children this way.
Ev-psych doesn't sound like good science, but it sure does sound like the wish-fulfillment fantasies of a bunch of frat boys. That's really all it is. One guy after another! Who will be America's Next Top Sperm?
Oh, yeah, you go baby. SHeeeeeesh.
The polio vaccine fear has made its way into Pakistan and Afghanistan in a big way, and a doctor attempting to give polio shots to children was shot dead in NWFP recently. None of the news is good.
It's not only, according to the fundies, a Zionist plot to make Muslims infertile, the other story that has been making the rounds is that the vaccine is made with pork by-products. Thus, it's better that your kid die of polio and get to Paradise sooner, than get the polio vaccine and go to Hell later.
The biggest diva in this whole drama, who has condemned who knows how many children to be exposed to this deadly disease? He is a mullah from NWFP who is himself a polio cripple. Savor the irony, or ponder the twisted psychology.
The doctors in Pakistan have a big fight ahead of them now. And people came so close to actually eliminating this disease completely. Humans are strange.
Whhhaaa....Broadsheet has figured out and finally told us that the whole headscarf thingee has very little, if anything, to do with women's rights in Turkey?
Really?
I'm shocked to hear it, I tell you, SHOCKED. I think I'm going to have to go lie down now.
Remember ladies, the hijab is there to set you free. It's a no-brainer. At least on Broadsheet.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
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