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History of Feminism
In reply to the discussion: An example of junk science re: objectification. [View all]seabeyond
(110,159 posts)29. see... this is exactly the crap i am talking about. you define it thru this period of time
it is a naked body. so today, we all yell.... see porn. there was porn way back then. gotcha.
then the story is told. it is a body of a naked women. if it were truly about the evolutionary psychology that is being spouted today, there would be a totally different figure there, cause what they suggest today in evolutionary psychology is there was only certain "hot" and "attractive" women for the alpha male way back then, and this was not it.
but, .... just take today and who we are and overlay it with way back then, coming to our conclusions.
way too easy and lazy.
thank you for the exact example i am talking about.
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" you sound like a climate-change denier?"" I am being thoroughly civil here." ah, no.
seabeyond
Jul 2012
#14
you have made it clear since it made "peer-reviewed academic journal" it is valid.
seabeyond
Jul 2012
#15
totally amazing tying evo babble to this when from the day girls and boys are born they are taught
seabeyond
Jul 2012
#11
there is plenty of documentation that challenges this. you obviously did not read any of it. to me,
seabeyond
Jul 2012
#23
unilaterally attack Evolutionary Psychology is to deny that there is any part of human behaviour
seabeyond
Jul 2012
#25
i can say the same right back at you. so why bother? i have no desire to converse with a person
seabeyond
Jul 2012
#27
I am also having trouble seeing any assertion about natural behavior or evo-psych
MadrasT
Jul 2012
#4
evo babble dismisses all of history for the first moment in time. they ignore conditioning, nurture,
seabeyond
Jul 2012
#16
see... this is exactly the crap i am talking about. you define it thru this period of time
seabeyond
Jul 2012
#29
there are many explanations about the issues with evo psych. here are 6 major, not even the minor
seabeyond
Jul 2012
#21
this would be a never ending process we do with women. but hell, lets not consider
seabeyond
Jul 2012
#31