Comments on: Everything I Need to Know About Love, I Learned From Time Magazine

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In Which I Refuse to Put the “Sex Ed War” to Rest : The Curvature — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:01:59 +0000

[...] you all know that Time Magazine is not my friend. But, this article is for the most part pretty good. After all, they do come [...]

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Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:24:26 +0000

[...] asked myself once, I’ve asked myself a million times why the hell I keep on getting Time magazine. In fact, I did cancel it a while ago, but only so it [...]

By: Daisy

Daisy — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:06:55 +0000

YOU ARE FUNNY!!!! Thanks for making my evening. “Don’t ask questions” had me in stitches, because by then, well, I had a couple. :D

By: rich

rich — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:47:20 +0000

Again, I don’t think women are programmed to be sluts, nor do I think men are incapable of being misogynists. That’s not mutually exclusive with me believing that evo psych is both valuable and misapplied. I have read many articles that invoked evolutionary psychology in a way that made me sick to my stomach. Betty, I am vehemently against people who use it as a means to justify dangerous behavior or ugly cultural stigmas. I think evo psych and feminism will often be fundamentally at odds with each other, and probably rightly so from the feminist side, when given some of the trash you read on the subject. Still, to discount the whole field, I think, is a mistake.

And to say you gave the field 30 years and it has yielded nothing is an arbitrary time frame and not a valid critique. If all other scientific fields had been around for 30 years, and evo psych was the only one to supposedly yield no results, to which I disagree, then maybe that could be a credible criticism.

And I’ll be damned if you rag on cryptozoology.

By: BettyBoondoggle

BettyBoondoggle — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:11:39 +0000

“They’ve had thirty years, and they havent yet found a single inherited human behavioural trait that has been shown to have adapted via natural selection.”

So, you mean men aren’t programed to be sluts, like only blonds, and to be incapable of not being misogynists?

You mean evo psych is just an excuse for all the worst human behaviors with the veneer of credibility?

By: David Elliott

David Elliott — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:48:38 +0000

It’s not just misused, it’s muddle-headed from the beginning. I’m not just talking about “pop scientists” like Pinker, but the more professionally oriented evolutionary psychologists, like Cosmides, for example. They’ve had thirty years, and they havent yet found a single inherited human behavioural trait that has been shown to have adapted via natural selection.

I’m sure cryptozoology is a valuable discourse and an interestuing set of theories to have floating around in case we ever have a reason to use them, but that doesn’t make it anything more than a pseudoscience untill we actually find the Loch Ness Monster.

By: rich

rich — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:48:00 +0000

Evo psych is misused a lot, but I think it is still a valuable scientific discourse.

By: David Elliott

David Elliott — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:45:28 +0000

“My point here is that this entire section is little more than pop science that you can find on any cable television documentary”

…wow, you pretty just described the entire field of evolutionary psychology.

By: Pizzadiavola

Pizzadiavola — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 07:37:42 +0000

Hmm. So what are single people, then? Tragic failures just waiting for the biological imperative to kick in?

How can they publish something that relies entirely on stereotypes and not at all on research? Jeez, it sounds like the content of these “science of love” stories haven’t changed much in the past decade or so, and that the quality doesn’t vary much between tabloids and magazines that purport to be journalism.

By: Cara

Cara — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:57:39 +0000

I remember that cover story, Shyva. I don’t remember it being that bad, though. I do remember being kind of happy that they brought they’re existence to the public’s attention, since they had been flying under the radar for so long. But maybe my memory is spotty.