why am I wasting neurons on these guys.

[odditycollector]

"The only other scientist to attempt to conduct a comprehensive, large-scale study of ordinary folks’ sexual desires was Alfred Kinsey." -- Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam, 2011

So I have been reading some recent copy by the SurveyFail guys, and. I don't even really care that they are sexist assholes. There are SO MANY sexist assholes in this world, whatever, two more's not going cause us to reach any critical mass we haven't already.

But they are BAD SCIENTISTS. They are BAD SCIENTISTS making money off BAD SCIENCE and EVERYONE IS TAKING THEM SERIOUSLY.

And then this paragraph was entirely comprised of keyboard mashing, so instead here's a webcomic that sums up junk evopsych in my mind.


(Source.)

[Description: Two men in white labcoats stare thoughtfully at a blackboard reading:
-inferior brain power?
-pathetic physical strength?
-victim of own emotions?
CAPTION: Doctors Baring and Everett speculate as to why women find them sexist.]

Bonus Panel. You could also read it by clicking through to the webpage, but it's a bit hidden, so.


[Description: Doctor Baring approaches a female colleague, his hands raised in finger quotes. She seems extremely irritated. He's asking:
What do you "think?"]

Comments

[odditycollector]

I suppose, in the end, even the black holes will vanish into background radiation. That's a sort of comfort. Also the book doesn't seem to be doing that well in Amazon sales, despite them promoting it on fairly large sites (Not that I should expect much from the Wall Street Journal, okay, I know that).

...also, one comment was like "I guess they didn't find the kink memes then" and OMG can you *imagine*? "According to our studies, men are hot for transsexuals and granny porn, women are hot for underage brothers dressed as hookers raping each other with a large eggplant while being mind controlled by voyeuristic aliens with more concept of scientific rigour than we do. There you go, men. What Women Want."

[brownbetty]

IKR? I mean, otoh, I am all fall scientific rigour, and yet otoh, I am just as glad they're not out there earnestly explaining women's hard-wired need for AMTDI and mpreg.

(Granny porn? Really? That's a thing?)

[odditycollector]

In what I saw, they do not miss a chance to reference men's enjoyment of granny porn. As you know, Betty, male interest in that and transsexual porn is the closest neurological equivalent to ladies reading tales of emotion saturated erotica featuring gay men. Science says so.