Wow. In any case, I often wonder if the entire discipine of evo psych has any real existence as anything other than a method for bigots to attempt to justify cultural stereotypes about gender, sexual preference, and occasionally race with exceedingly dubious science.
OHMARGARETATWOODNO. I got to the sentence about "based in evolutionary science," read it, and wept. As someone who went for a Psych minor and who studied Evolution in college her theory is...well, it's pretty standard "pop evolution" claptrap.
You forgot to mention the bit where she says "You could tell The Handmaid's Tale from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed..."
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Date: 2009-09-04 11:57 am (UTC)I got to the sentence about "based in evolutionary science," read it, and wept. As someone who went for a Psych minor and who studied Evolution in college her theory is...well, it's pretty standard "pop evolution" claptrap.
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Date: 2009-09-05 12:53 am (UTC)--elswhere
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Date: 2009-09-04 02:50 pm (UTC)WHUT.
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Date: 2009-09-04 04:14 pm (UTC)Whoa.
Um, at least we can tell she's telling the truth about never being "informed by feminism" in her life?
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Date: 2009-09-05 05:00 pm (UTC)Not that I liked Oryx and Crake anyway, so I wasn't going to read the new one.