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Apr. 11th, 2006 12:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quietannFor anyone who ever thinks about evolutionary psychology, you need to read http://community.livejournal.com/metaquotes/4950430.html
It's a righteous rant against, well, as the author puts it:
ANCESTRAL MAN: Well... you could say that. But, see, you're a woman. You're more emotional. That's why you're letting your idealistic, head-in-the-clouds nonsense about hunter-gatherer societies cloud your perception of the Harsh Truth.
ANCESTRAL WOMAN: Which is?
ANCESTRAL MAN: That that the default setting for humanity is the gender roles and domestic arrangements of the worst stereotypes of 1950s suburbia.
ANCESTRAL WOMAN: White picket fences and all.
At one point in my past, I was interested in studying evolutionary psychology. Then I applied to graduate school and started meeting some of the professors who were the big names in the field. Guess what? They were all skeevy guys who'd dumped their wives in favor of their much-younger female graduate students. It was all about justifying their own bad behavior. Feh on them.
It's a righteous rant against, well, as the author puts it:
ANCESTRAL MAN: Well... you could say that. But, see, you're a woman. You're more emotional. That's why you're letting your idealistic, head-in-the-clouds nonsense about hunter-gatherer societies cloud your perception of the Harsh Truth.
ANCESTRAL WOMAN: Which is?
ANCESTRAL MAN: That that the default setting for humanity is the gender roles and domestic arrangements of the worst stereotypes of 1950s suburbia.
ANCESTRAL WOMAN: White picket fences and all.
At one point in my past, I was interested in studying evolutionary psychology. Then I applied to graduate school and started meeting some of the professors who were the big names in the field. Guess what? They were all skeevy guys who'd dumped their wives in favor of their much-younger female graduate students. It was all about justifying their own bad behavior. Feh on them.
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Date: 2006-04-11 05:06 pm (UTC)On a related note, have you ever read Natalie Angiers's WOMAN: AN INTIMATE GEOGRAPHY?
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Date: 2006-04-11 05:22 pm (UTC)*SNERK*
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Date: 2006-04-12 03:46 am (UTC)I wonder if they pull that 'hunter/gatherer' shite when explaining why the wife isn't a tenured professor.
"See, I'm hardwired to hunt for the most persuasive-sounding poppycock I can find for the department heads, while you are hardwired to gather evidence and nurture reproducibility. Er, let's try that again."