I Feel Bitchy, O So Bitchy: Part Two of The Posts about Women's Intrasex Aggression:

[ismnotwasm]

I don't know how many are aware of this I read a couple of articles, thought "meh" and moved on. Then I thought I should pay attention. It's best to read both posts for context, because this kind of crap is going to pop up, basically the theses says it's not men who police women's sexuality, or patriarchy, but other women. Because, you know evolutionary psychology.

This is the second post in the series about how one particular idea became widely publicized when other studies about aggression do not seem to have the same eclat. The first post sets the stage and can be read here.

Introduction

This post is about the review article Tracy Vaillancourt wrote. Though the popularizations decided not to talk about that one but about her 2011 article with Aanchal Sharma (to be covered in the third post of this series), the review article is worth looking at in itself.

To begin with, it's crucial to realize that someone reviewing a particular field may review all articles in it, the articles regarded as most generally accepted or the articles the reviewer believes are the most important. Things are more complicated when some topic is studied by several different disciplines. For instance, reviews by evolutionary psychologists may only cover studies by other evolutionary psychologists, not studies carried out about the same topic in a neighboring discipline.

This can bias the impression one gets. Now, none of this is intended to apply to the particular review article I talk about here. It is just something readers should keep in mind when reading various reviews.

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[KitSileya]

1. Not having read the articles, the thought that popped up from reading your comment

was that the next thing they'll "discover" is that it wasn't and isn't slave owners that kept/keep the slaves in slavery, it was/is other slaves.