Did you blog about the "Fan Reactions to Character Death" panel at Gally? If so, please link me to it; I'd like to do a roundup.
It's super good to be home. Claudette (who we may be renaming Cricket) is a lot more confident and Pretty seems happier although there is occasional hissing. Meanwhile, Patty is the awesome.
Opening to weirdest email I've written in a long time: "Dear Virgin America: I was on flight VX 406 out of LAX yesterday, and -- and I know this is bizarre -- there were ants on it."
For those of you not paying attention to the sheer WTFery in New York State, we've gone from an ineffectual state government run by legislators who can't agree on anything and never ever get voted out (even the guy who slashed his girlfriend's face and then got censured and kicked out of office by the rest of the senate -- he's now suing AND running for reelection; I'm not even kidding) and a governor who came to power due to the former governor's sex scandal to a state government that can't get anything done because of all of the above and the fact that now it turns out that that governor interceded to try to stop the ex-gf of one of his aides from pressing her own domestic violence charges. FAIL.
On the Internet, I would also argue that everyone is a potential reality TV show. Which is a little scary. You wouldn't believe the ideas I come up with and cull.
Thank you. I feel really out of my depth with this sort of thing. On the one hand - yeah! Life does suck and that makes some of us depressed. On the other hand - When I was super depth of despair depressed, I'm pretty sure that life was pretty OK besides that.
Oh, I hope I didn't sound like I was ordering you on how to feel - the evo psych dudes just touch on several activist issues, and I've heard basically all their arguments.
If you like, when it's not 3.00 AM in the morning, I can dig up some material on deconstructing why these dudes are utterly wrong, and why they think like they do.
If you happen to agree with them, that's okay. I'll just be over on the other side of the fence yelling at the evo-psych team.
Oh no! I was genuinely thankful. It's not an argument that I'd heard before, so it was really helpful for someone to give it some context. (Random googling when I read it didn't help all that much.) I would be interested in reading stuff about it, if you have a chance! I've heard the term before, but it's certainly not something I would even say I was passingly familiar with.
I'm sorry this is so late! I only remembered your post last night!
Links to easy to understand essays are hard to find, though, but I tried:
Darwi-fraggin-ists (http://www.sunclipse.org/?p=309) -- on why calling evo-psych Darwinism (or evoloutionary biology, for that matter) is wrong, and why it doesn't work.
oh goody, it’s another evo-psych article; or, as it’s more commonly known: “science for douchebags” (http://pinstripebindi.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/oh-goody-its-another-evo-psych-article-or-as-its-more-commonly-known-choad-based-science/)
Two Minutes’ Hating on Evo Psych (http://www.tobascodagama.com/?p=613)
Bingo Card (Not Particularly Accessible, as it comes up in an AJAX Window) (http://jezebel.com/5512676/the-evolutionary-psychology-game-bingo)
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Date: 2010-03-04 02:29 pm (UTC)(Those guys are the same dickhead white dudes that say coloured people are doomed to suffer, and that women aren't good at math.)
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Date: 2010-03-04 04:05 pm (UTC)Thank you for the heads up.
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Date: 2010-03-04 04:28 pm (UTC)If you like, when it's not 3.00 AM in the morning, I can dig up some material on deconstructing why these dudes are utterly wrong, and why they think like they do.
If you happen to agree with them, that's okay. I'll just be over on the other side of the fence yelling at the evo-psych team.
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Date: 2010-04-17 08:58 am (UTC)Links to easy to understand essays are hard to find, though, but I tried:
Darwi-fraggin-ists (http://www.sunclipse.org/?p=309) -- on why calling evo-psych Darwinism (or evoloutionary biology, for that matter) is wrong, and why it doesn't work.
oh goody, it’s another evo-psych article; or, as it’s more commonly known: “science for douchebags” (http://pinstripebindi.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/oh-goody-its-another-evo-psych-article-or-as-its-more-commonly-known-choad-based-science/)
Two Minutes’ Hating on Evo Psych (http://www.tobascodagama.com/?p=613)
Bingo Card (Not Particularly Accessible, as it comes up in an AJAX Window) (http://jezebel.com/5512676/the-evolutionary-psychology-game-bingo)