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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Rapping about Rape

Edited 6/8/2009: Since folks are apparently not reading the analysis, I’m no longer embedding the video here. THE VIDEO IS FAKE. IT IS NOT ACTUALLY KOBE’S ACCUSER DOING THE RAP. It is a parody of Shaq’s rap to Kobe created by StudioFred.com.
I read Fark. And so does my Nigel. Yesterday, after finding it on Fark [...]

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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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Kyle Payne sentenced to six months in county jail!

Yay!  Yay!  Yay!!!
Stating that a major violation of trust had occurred, District Court Judge Don Courtney sentenced Iowa blogger and self-proclaimed male feminist Kyle Payne to serve time in the Buena Vista County Jail for invasion of privacy.
Payne received 360 days, with 180 days suspended on each of two counts of invasion of privacy, a [...]

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