badgerbag: WHAT! haahaahahahah

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badgerbag) wrote,
@ 2009-09-03 11:40 pm UTC

WHAT! haahaahahahah

Margaret Atwood's ev psych explanation of why we should all be picking up men's socks joyfully with our digging sticks or some shit

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	no subject whump 2009-09-04 08:05 am UTC (link)
	As a talking squid from outer space, I think it's more nuanced than what she says. (Reply to this)

	no subject heron61 2009-09-04 09:04 am UTC (link)
	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. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject jinian.livejournal.com 2009-09-04 03:33 pm UTC (link)
	As a biology Ph.D. student, I am here to tell you it does not. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject asim 2009-09-04 11:57 am UTC (link)
	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. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 2 comments) (Show 2 comments)

	no subject rhivolution 2009-09-04 12:59 pm UTC (link)
	There needs to be an OH NO MARGARET ATWOOD icon, I think. Because that was my exact reaction. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject (Anonymous) 2009-09-05 12:53 am UTC (link)
	Mine too! --elswhere (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject lavendertook 2009-09-04 02:42 pm UTC (link)
	I don't see no stinkin' socks. But I bet you could see mushrooms with the stuff she's smoking. (Reply to this)

	no subject vito_excalibur 2009-09-04 02:50 pm UTC (link)
	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..." WHUT. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 2 comments) (Show 2 comments)

	no subject jinian.livejournal.com 2009-09-04 04:14 pm UTC (link)
	... Whoa. Um, at least we can tell she's telling the truth about never being "informed by feminism" in her life? (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject rhivolution 2009-09-05 05:00 pm UTC (link)
	That basically ruined THT for me, which sucks, as that was really one of my Feminist Awakening books in high school. Damn it. Not that I liked Oryx and Crake anyway, so I wasn't going to read the new one. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

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