By: Uncle Ebeneezer
I did, but I think I already disliked Stone so much by that point that I didn’t give her, or it, a fair chance. My vote would still go to Joe Pesci in Goodfellas for best mobster movie performance. The...
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I think the only way to rescue it from the accusation of “proving that the way Western societies do things is ordained by biological evolution” is to say that it doesn’t really address evolution at...
View ArticleBy: Anna in PDX
I just finished reading a good antidote to this sort of reductive trash, The Gender Delusion by Cordelia Fine, all about the brain studies that try like hell to prove that women are worse at math or...
View ArticleBy: Bijan Parsia
<blockquote> increasing emancipation of behavior from instinctual control and ever greater behavioral heterogeneity</blockquote> I love this phrase! And the fact it expresses!
View ArticleBy: DrDick
<em>Huh? No, you’re wrong. I work in a medical lab that does mostly small studies. You want to minimize the effect of confounders and that means you always try to standardize on age, gender,...
View ArticleBy: herr doktor bimler
Agree about ‘Delusions of Gender’. More importantly, the teenage Doktorling borrowed my copy, read it, and gave it her imprimatur as well. Rebecca Jordan-Young covers similar ground (at a more academic...
View ArticleBy: I am the Feminist Cosmos - Lawyers, Guns & Money : Lawyers, Guns & Money
[…] anything worse than trying to construct a grand theory out of random personal anecdotes a la Naomi Wolf, trying to construct a grand theory out of random personal anecdotes combined with biological...
View ArticleBy: Camille Paglia Sorts Out Reproductive Freedom For You - Lawyers, Guns &...
[…] gawd. She should stick to some of Wolf’s less silly work, like “all other women are doing the sex wrong” and “Edward Snowden is a willing accomplice of Big […]
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