Comments on: How Girls Evolved to Shop https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/12/03/how-girls-evolved-to-shop/ Fri, 07 Dec 2012 14:16:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: bks https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/12/03/how-girls-evolved-to-shop/#comment-496576 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 14:16:56 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=14699#comment-496576 First I get lame criticism about “phenotype” and then about “dispassionate.” I know what the words mean and I used them both correctly.

I see that Greg has put up an item critiquing Watson’s talk. I’ll read that now and if anyone wants to question my lexical choices, you can move it up there.

–bks

]]> By: nomuse https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/12/03/how-girls-evolved-to-shop/#comment-496575 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 21:59:22 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=14699#comment-496575 “Dispassionate,” bks?

I do not think that word means what you think it means.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/12/03/how-girls-evolved-to-shop/#comment-496574 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 20:26:36 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=14699#comment-496574 I have not read his essay. I therefore have no comment about it. But I am not in a hurry to read it either. And yes, this is a science blog, yet for some reason I let you comment here!

Anyway, here is my critique of …. well, just read it.

http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/12/06/critique-of-rebecca-watsons-talk-haters-gonna-hate/

]]> By: bks https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/12/03/how-girls-evolved-to-shop/#comment-496573 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 17:16:52 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=14699#comment-496573 That’s your rebuttal to Clint’s dispassionate essay? I think you might check your own glass for traces of kool-aid. I have no objection to Watson the entertainer, but this is a Science blog.

–bks

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/12/03/how-girls-evolved-to-shop/#comment-496572 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 16:58:00 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=14699#comment-496572 Bks, don’t choke on whatever kool aid that is your drinking.

]]> By: bks https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/12/03/how-girls-evolved-to-shop/#comment-496571 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 15:56:01 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=14699#comment-496571 http://skepticink.com/incredulous/2012/12/01/science-denialism-at-a-skeptic-conference/

Now I’m really glad I didn’t waste 48 minutes.

–bks

]]> By: Doug Alder https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/12/03/how-girls-evolved-to-shop/#comment-496570 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 02:52:54 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=14699#comment-496570 The misogyny in the comments on Rebecca’s presentation is high .

]]> By: Eww, I stepped in some evolutionary psychology and other crap | Evolving Thoughts https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/12/03/how-girls-evolved-to-shop/#comment-496569 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 01:46:41 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=14699#comment-496569 […] Zvan (which PZ called a GOOD response), James Croft (the most measured response so far) and Greg Laden, but the raw nerves were on fire. Clint was accused of being an “MRA” (men’s rights […]

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/12/03/how-girls-evolved-to-shop/#comment-496568 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 20:56:59 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=14699#comment-496568 I saw forager men shop.

]]> By: bks https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/12/03/how-girls-evolved-to-shop/#comment-496567 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 19:12:43 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=14699#comment-496567 Presumably foraging is the evolutionary precursor of shopping.

–bks

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