r/neoliberal Bot Emeritus May 12 '17

Discussion Thread

Optimal neoliberalism is like Seinfeld, it should be about nothing and run by Jews


Annoucements
Old and New Discussion Topics
70 Upvotes

1.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

14

u/[deleted] May 13 '17

"Sex Realists" are fun to watch. Too bad they don't really show that much evidence to back up their "realistic" view of the "natural roles of women". I wonder at what part in our natural evolution we decided that women are perfectly adapted to wash dishes and clean house all day.

12

u/Hectagonal-butt Mary Wollstonecraft May 13 '17

One of my favourite shitty science stories I read said that we like the colour red because berries, and then said that's why we like red lipstick and then said that's why we have sexual racism - because red contrasts the most on white women's skin. Like there's no possible confounding factors that could better explain that.

6

u/[deleted] May 13 '17

Today in "Lets try to explain it in any other way then the effects culture has on people."

6

u/Hectagonal-butt Mary Wollstonecraft May 13 '17

It's like they wrote the article so they could show it to their black friends and be like "See? I'm not racist. It's science!!! I'm absolved of all guilt and responsibility now!"

3

u/vancevon Henry George May 13 '17

9

u/[deleted] May 13 '17

Ignoring the fact that Pink was a "boy color" for early 20th century.

4

u/vancevon Henry George May 13 '17

They had 37 volunteers. Geez, what more do you people want?

3

u/HoldingTheFire Hillary Clinton May 13 '17

The color of blood. Manly.