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People who put paypal donate buttons on their blogs, especially socialists.

ya, people like to dance and whatever... i just can't fathom getting so worked up about a sector of the entertainment industry and its workings... only if it was your livelihood could you possibly care so much...

yeah, maybe he has a point, but my mind kept wandering to other things during that... like how many people on earth are starving, or dying of preventable diseases, and the wars going on... I think we'll all be ok if the aura around indie culture dies, really. I can't imagine giving that much of...

I'm at a state school right now, and I could write you a laundry list of problems with the whole system. Most of the information they're throwing at us here is the same as anywhere, but the quality of education is nowhere near what I got at the private college and university I attended. And...

The migraines thing: definitely genetic. The graphomania (leaving notes around the house) thing sounds possibly genetic, and could be related to seizure activity, along with the migraines. But some of the other things sound like, if you looked at statistics, they're probably just as likely to...

I should watch that everytime I think I really want to move back to the city.

Whaaat? There could be a million molecular reasons why there are vision differences. Or there could have been a bottleneck in early human history, where only women with really good vision survived. Or it could be common to all primates. I have no idea, but I never said anything about blaming...

Whoa whoa whoa. "Sex-linked" does not mean there are evolutionarily conferred differences in preference. It means that, because men are hemizygous for non-autosomal traits, they are more likely to be affected by genetic disorders that are X-chromosome linked. So, yeah, men are more often...

Citations please... Although in a lot of twin studies, mental illness shows a very strong genetic component. Niche interests seems pretty trivial...

You're right that pushed it over the top. As for the color article, stereoscopic vision might be better in females but how in the hell did they prove a "preference" for red hues in women. And what was their sample size? I get a 404 error when I click on that link, Biscuits.

Did it have a phallic handle and depict the owner of the iron as a huge stud, who, by simply ironing, could make the clothes melt off every sorority girl in a 100m radius?

Ugh, he's full of it. He's basically an evolutionary psychologist. I think there's a huge link between transsexuality and fetal hormone regulation. Possibly something to do with sexual orientation in general. But that's different from gender role issue and it's another thread for another...

No it isn't. It's never legitimate to do that, logically. There's no reason to believe that just because the majority of women do something, it has a strong biological/hormonal basis. It remains to be proven that anything we think of or assume to be "feminine" has anything to do with hormones--...

The whole color-coded gender thing, a) doesn't work anymore, because even the hardest core thugs wear pastels and bright pinks, b) it's entirely relative to culture, which means, it must have little to no hard biological substrate, and c) makes no sense on the face of it.

What? Women are important in reproduction, therefore, women have an innate dislike of tall buildings? And steam engines? Architecture and engineering are hardly "high risk" activities. This is getting silly.

But you're making the classic mistake- the idea that culture and nature are discrete and autonomous entities. They're not. Culture is a natural phenomenon. It evolves. It plays a role in our evolution. It evolves alongside us, as a sort of parasite. As does technology. (Some people have argued...

Why do you think women didn't "make" these things that you think boys love so much because of their sex? Could it be because they've been indentured servants and sex slaves for, oh, ten thousand years? And were excluded from certain activities? The reason men go to war, by the way- the strict...

Is this assumption grounded in anything? The prevailing norms for girly behavior are VERY strong. Are you serious right now? First of all, I never said "nurture OVER nature". Obviously, culture is a type of bio-social meme. Nature AND nurture are both very important in the development of an...

Yes, grizzleb. Good point. Another example of how if women do it, it's already encoded as "feminine" and therefore less x,y, or z than whatever it is men supposedly do out of sheer androgen load. It's funny: real scientists have done all sorts of studies, and they keep finding that if you put a...

Your parents are shitty scientists. That 'experiment' has no controls and the hypothesis, if there was one, besides "infants are hardwired to be heterosexual stereotypes" was unfalsifiable.