Some people take the whole “alpha male” concept way too seriously, and too far.
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Some people take the whole “alpha male” concept way too seriously, and too far.
It would appear that Tucker Carlson’s surprise “trout fishing vacation” happened when he learned about the new lawsuit against Fox, in which he appears as a member of the supporting cast.
My attitude toward internet pseudonyms is probably a bit odd; I’m not sure, though. I don’t know if this will interest any of you, but “why not?”
Someone swapped the models in Arkham Asylum so that Batman and Catwoman were inverted.
Recent discussion in some comments brought up the nature/nurture question and Steven Pinker’s book The Blank Slate.
Warning: Discussion of Butts, particularly squeezing thereof.
I’m going to vent for just a second.
I call them “Renfields” after the vampire’s slave in Dracula. They’re the weak, beglamoured, cowardly, venal, crippled, soul-dead followers of a master vampire: their sense of right or wrong is completely overruled and all that’s left is fear of the master’s displeasure.
PZ wonders if he’s as flawed as the people being accused. [pha] That little bit of effort is part of living an examined life.
I got into a lengthy facebook flail-a-thon [here] with some real live biological determinists, last night. Seriously! I had allowed myself to believe that such people didn’t actually exist. Silly me. Now I remember why my appearances on facebook are brief (occasionally I use a stealth account to do investigations) and are usually followed by years of silence.
I’m slow on the uptake because I usually have my head in the clouds or I’m glaring at some project and not thinking about anything else. But hanging out at pharyngula back in the scienceblogs days helped clue me in to the gender imbalance in tech. (It required a few privilege-checks and beatings)