RFK is going to ban some obscure chemical and we're going to find out that being a furry was just a form of poisoning all along.
Diana S. Fleischman
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Diana S. Fleischman
@sentientist
I left academia so I can say whatever I want here now.
Evolutionary psychologist. Mama. Married to @gmiller.
Joined March 2012
- I'm sorry, I only drink water that is purified by parrots
GIF - A handy graphic for understanding outrage at statements about average differences between groups
- The widely accepted theory of human self-domestication states that what made civilization possible was killing and casting out antisocial and violent men. So, in a sense, "policing hard" is the foundation of our species.
I've become radicalized into carceral urbanism. Either you think Eurasian cities are safe because they have racial superpowers (unlikely), or you think they're safe because they policed hard for 500 years until people learned to behave. - How can one understand history and not come to the conclusion that we are beyond privileged to exist at this specific point in the human timeline?
- Women disproportionately have borderline personality disorder, women with BPD more likely to suddenly decide someone is evil and cut them out of their lives. Also, BPD women more likely to become best friends with one another. 1/2I've known a few girls who have been suddenly "dumped" by their best friend in jarring ways and its one of the oddest aspects of female relationships
- It's rare for any book for women to tell the truth about how their options shrink with age, or how pickiness about most characteristics reflects an entitlement most cannot afford, or how regretful many women are who never marry. If I was trying to convince someone to settle down
- The central perk of status in every social mammal is sexual access. Our reaction when high status men seek greater sexual access.
- Twitter is a place where people with short attention spans can get together to argue about the meaning of articles they didn’t read. They argue about the article’s deep societal implications- implications totally formed by what people who didn’t read the article said, on Twitter.
- Women on internet forums are constantly encouraging one another to escalate small or nonexistent misdeeds into existential relationship threats. It's incredibly toxic- a few examples:
- One way to improve the chances of a man's fidelity is a process I call "weirding"- changing a man to shrink his pool of available mates. You can get him into libertarianism, or knitting, or podcasts about optimal male performance that cause him to stay off his phone and go to bed
