Kanazawa Strikes Again: Evo-Psych Zombie Edition

You may recall my personal nemesis, Satoshi Kanazawa, from this longwinded bit of commentary I did in 2007 in response to his ridiculous article, “Ten Politically Incorrect Truths about Human Nature.”
Well, Kanazawa is back! And not a minute too late, as I was starting to forget the bullshit that is evolutionary psychology! Without this reminder, [...]

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Tough Love’s Steve Ward on Victim Blaming

This post has generated lots of commentary and response. Most of the responses I have received, however, function only to reinforce the victim-blaming attitudes Steve Ward displays in the episode of Tough Love I discuss here. I have refuted most of the common responses in the comments, so readers should read both the post AND [...]

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Kyle Payne is back — and as big of a douche as ever

Ugh, he’s so sleazy.
Background: here, here, and here.
I’ll echo the many others who’ve already said it: Kyle Payne is a sexual predator (whether or not there’s a “pattern of abuse”), and he is not welcome in my feminist blogosphere (whether or not he is interested in being called a pro-/feminist blogger).  
And, for the record? [...]

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Asshole Music

Speaking of calling out sexism where I see it, this song bothers the ever-living shit out of me.
It’s a song by a local group called 3OH!3 (it’s a “clever” name because that’s the area code of Boulder, their hometown) called “Don’t Trust Me” — it’s their breakout song and it gets played on the radio [...]

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Concert Condescension

So I went to see a Foo Fighters concert last night.  Yes, I admit to being a giant fucking Foos fan.  I realize it’s not the coolest thing in the world to be a Foos fan, but I fell in love with The Colour and the Shape (yes, I also see the superfluousness of the extra [...]

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