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lazy gender-essentialists and the non-mathematically-rigorous kind of EvoPsych Just So Story author My parser choked on this. She's tired of debating who/what?
by ramchip 17y ago
lazy gender-essentialists and the non-mathematically-rigorous kind of EvoPsych Just So Story author
My parser choked on this. She's tired of debating who/what?
- JulianMorrison 17y agolazy gender-essentialists = the kind of people who make dogmatic pronouncements of the form "women are x" without scientific cites (or with old, outdated science that conveniently backs their point) the non-mathematically-rigorous kind of EvoPsych Just So Story author = the kind of damn fool who makes a story like "berries are red, women needed to gather them in prehistory, and that's why women prefer pink" based on a weak study on the color preferences of a small handful of women. Evolutionary Psychology is not an excuse to invent vaguely plausible evolutionary explanations and call them scientific. (The Just So Stories are Rudyard Kipling's Lamarckian fantasy tales of how creatures attained their present form.)