why does this stuff get published?
Feb. 12th, 2009 10:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
keryxNow and again I wonder if I'm missing something very important by ignoring print and television journalism (and, really, everything but NPR). And then a newspaper will publish something like this. I'll save you a click, if you like: it's a random stream of evolutionary psychology "facts" that purport to celebrate Darwin.
Well, sure. If you want to celebrate Darwin's 19th century attitudes about gender.
My favorite is not actually about gender, but the idea that abusing one's stepchildren is somehow explainable as a biological imperative to adore only one's bio-kids. Cause it has nothing to do with the family functions that result in & from stepfamilies. Nothing at all.
Oh, and for the record? I've never met a man who can mentally reimagine a 3-dimensional object in space as effectively as I. That whole "men are better at spacial relationships" thing grates on me.
Well, sure. If you want to celebrate Darwin's 19th century attitudes about gender.
My favorite is not actually about gender, but the idea that abusing one's stepchildren is somehow explainable as a biological imperative to adore only one's bio-kids. Cause it has nothing to do with the family functions that result in & from stepfamilies. Nothing at all.
Oh, and for the record? I've never met a man who can mentally reimagine a 3-dimensional object in space as effectively as I. That whole "men are better at spacial relationships" thing grates on me.