Histrionic statements receive histrionic reactions; I fail to see connection with fear, fright or threat. I mean, we're all just flinging poo here and that's ab

Histrionic statements receive histrionic reactions; I fail to see connection with fear, fright or threat. I mean, we're all just flinging poo here and that's about it. What got to me is not the title, but the way how an fascinating topic was dragged down to the gutter and then just choked to death. I mean personal space is just another boundary, which one has to cross to "get up close and personal". It is an act of aggression. Now who displays that aggression, is what determines what kind of response you'll get. If it's your sweetheart in a sexy mood, the response will be sexual. If it's a skinhead with a knife, it will be a fear response. The action is the same: violation of personal space; the circumstances are not. You could write a dissertation on that alone. And well here we have a person obviously not in the field, writing a biology column on neuroscience using one quote of neuroscientist and a case study of a brain-damaged patient to drive her point that "personal space is a fear response" and not even doing that well. Sorry. The article is just bad.