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I had a fun and wide ranging conversation with @JohnDanaher on evolutionary psychology, sex differences, casual sex, the replication crisis, incels, male violence, porn, and why women don't want sex robots. …ilosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com/2018/08/episod…
Women are much less likely to be killed by a sex partner than men are to be killed by other men, especially jealous rivals so why do we keep saying that women are afraid because they are likely to be killed by a casual sex partner? check out 19:30 & 46:43 …ilosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com/2018/08/episod…
"Incels are just one example of a group of men who can't get sexual access but men who cannot get sexual access have always represented a much greater threat to society than men with mates" 49:12 …ilosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com/2018/08/episod…
Why I'm a transhumanist evolutionary psychologist and why I think evolutionary psychology is the only way to understand our native programming and change it for the better 26:27
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How I think #metoo has criminalized the normal awkwardness of courtship, increased courtship costs and how #metoo is like making everyone drive in a tank in order to avoid the trauma of car accidents 31:46 …ilosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com/2018/08/episod…
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I do not dismiss IQ scepticism purely because of motivation. Nor have I implied anything wrong w @nntaleb. In his original IQ thread Taleb questioned motivations and intelligence of IQ endorsers many times. I just said Taleb isn't humble, and he isn't.
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Nonsense is the belief the scientific endeavor can discover nothing true about human nature but simultaneously believing that we can understand culture and harness it to improve the human condition. Culture is an outgrowth of our animal nature rather than an outside cause.
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No problems were ever solved by saying "this is an offensive discussion", "these are offensive comparisons" or "let's just ignore people who commit crimes because they're not nice anyway" - virtue signalers who believe in thoughtcrime come for @robinhanson twitter.com/search?q=https…
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Question for folks familiar with #LGBTQ+ research, particularly on life trajectories: A lot of researchers seem obsessed with the notion that childhood gender non-conformity (GNC) is tied to being gay (or in some cases trans) as an adult... #science #psychology #sex #research
While certainly true in some cases, many LGBTQ+ adults were not GNC during childhood. These latter cases are usually ignored/viewed as anomalies, probably b/c they don't fit the "sexual inversion" model (e.g., feminized/masculinized brain) that many researchers still cling to...
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For me, the real issue in the #trans #GRA reform is #maleviolence against #female & trans. I note #transmen seem to be absent from discussion. They obvs don't present as #women so don't use women's spaces. But they can't draw attention to themselves as trans because... (1/2)
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Welcome to a livetweet of our weekly meeting. Today, we will be discussing sexual violence in Ovid's Metamorphoses, as well as broader issues of politics in the classroom. CW: sexual assault, violence, misogyny
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Ross Dothan's NYTimes column about "The Redistribution of Sex" is a great example of why people who are not well-versed in sexuality as a field should not be writing about topics as fraught as incels and their violent demands of more sexual gratification from women.
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1) This is a thread on what has been confusing to me (at least): the tendency to rope literary studies into this collection of ‘postmodern’ disciplines allegedly making ‘social’ claims over and above scientific discovery. I’m looking for reading suggestions about what follows.
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