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Diana S. Fleischman Profile picture
@sentientist
Jun 30 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Childless people invented the idea that it's problematic and an invasion of privacy to post pictures of your children online because they didn't want to lose out in online status games against parents with cute kids.
I enjoy and collect cynical explanations for otherwise puzzling phenomena, this one about posting pictures of children online comes from a fan of @SimoneHCollins and I think it's plausible
Another one that I enjoy, but am not sure about, is that women tell other women they look great with short hair because they actually look worse, or maybe less attractive to men, when they don short hair.
I've never read anything that clearly lays out a plausible case for why it could hurt your kids if you post pictures of them online- but I could be persuaded.
Yes, on second thought, runaway parental protection is probably a better explanation. But the one about child free people is spicier.

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May 31
Recently there has been a reckoning about whether scientists, like evolutionary psychologist and population geneticists, are responsible for the "bad" beliefs and violence of people who read and cite their work.
I don't think they are 🧵
One of my colleagues @dconroybeam (henceforth DCB) wrote a piece for the Boston Globe lamenting that evolutionary psychology is commonly cited by manosphere and incel groups whose unpalatable attitudes include desire for a traditional foreign born wife, the belief that women are feckless sluts for highly dominant men, and that feminism and wokeness have had a dire influence on heterosexual relationships.

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The most inflammatory claim of the article is that, because evolutionary psychologists have not called out manosphere influencers, evolutionary psychology has caused murder. Has evolutionary psychology caused murder? Let's unpack the examples Image
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May 27
The Guardian: Why does the racist idea persist that Black people have thicker skin than White people?

Meanwhile: Black people have thicker skin than White people.

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Next the scientific racists will tell us that Black people have darker skin, on average.


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Apr 5
Singapore's greatest asset is a relatively educated workforce. In the 80s Lee Kuan Yew implemented selectively pronatalist (aka eugenic) policies , like priority daycare, romantic getaways for educated singles and money for sterilization, to try to increase the number of children born to educated women. These were targeted at the better educated Chinese majority. They were both unpopular and ineffective- failing to bring Chinese birthrates up or the age of marriage for Chinese women down.Image
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A couple of posters from Singapore's pronatalist era- 1986
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Posters encouraging Singaporeans to marry later and have two children- the second poster is from the 70s, before the pronatalist era Image
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Jan 9
A @sciam article concluded that women have an "endurance activity advantage" and that, therefore, women are as adapted for hunting as men. The piece didn't make a strong case & authors Ocobock and Lacy were pilloried.
Did they respond to criticism in a later online seminar about the pushback they got on their paper? Not really- 1/4
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They responded dishonestly to this tweet saying that there was no "evidence for women doing high-risk cooperative big-game hunting in any hunter-gatherer society"


Ocobock countered this by saying there was "no evidence" of "only males" doing big game hunting among Neanderthals (not extant hunter gatherers) or "anatomically modern humans"- pushing the burden of evidence back, rather than tackling the claim directly 2/4
Some of this comes down to rhetoric-easily defended position that O + L make is that women hunted too- harder to defend position is that labor of hunting was not unequal. Hunting is a primarily masculine activity. 3/4
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Dec 20, 2023
Sex differences are a central theme in the culture wars- endorsing evolved sex differences, or even a sex binary can get you in trouble. That's why #TheBigConversation - a conference bringing together some of the most prominent voices on either side of the debate was such a rare event- I wrote about it for @RealLastStand
Here are some of the highlights of the article
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realityslaststand.com/p/the-sex-wars…
The conference consisted of 16 talks and 5 discussion sections- see a recording of the whole conference at the link below.

Some of the attendees were Cordelia Fine @hoovlet @DaphnaJoel @ginarippon1 @PsychoSchmitt David Geary @ProfDavidBuss @CostelloWilliam @TaniaArline Marco del Guidice @sbkaufman David Puts @Lise_Eliot and Maryanne Fisher 2/20

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A central questions in sex difference research concerns the origins of differences between men and women. Are these differences primarily the result of socialization, culture, and stereotype effects, or are these differences largely innate or biological? 3/20
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Sep 30, 2023
This weekend I'll be posting from the #thebigconversation an event with opposing voices on sex differences like @Lise_Eliot @PsychoSchmitt @hoovlet @TaniaArline @ginarippon1 @SwipeWright @CostelloWilliam @DaphnaJoel @ml_fisher @sbkaufman & David Geary!
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#thebigconversation on sex and gender differences is going to be livestreamed- you can attend for free at this link form.jotform.com/232276404966159
Here is #thebigconversation program- including talks and debates
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