Atomic Nerds

Holly Pervocracy has an excellent post shredding a misogynist douchebag blogging at Psychology Today’s site. I started to write “mysteriously” blogging at Psychology Today, but they’ve been pretty much completely taken over by the status-quo just-so’s for awhile now, and cannot fairly be called science journalism anymore. Money quote from Holly’s post:

I agree that human behavior is evolved, but I believe that we evolved into humans. If we still had the hierarchies and behaviors of apes on the savannah, we’d be apes on the savannah. (Also, even apes are often more complex than Kanazawa assumes.) It’s like saying “dolphins are descended from land creatures with legs, therefore dolphins have legs.” And the idea that men are harem-keeping sperm machines and women are antler-contest-judging baby machines is some serious dolphin legs.

I am totally stealing “dolphin legs” as a metaphor when I rant about this brand of bullshit in the future. Read the whole thing.

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