Comments on: Skeptically Speaking About Human Female Breasts and Bras

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 03:26:19 +0000

Same with birds. There is a default and a derived sex, yet depending on the species either sex may have derived exaggerated traits. You may need to calibrate your thinking on the relationship between overall development and adaptive features.

By: Brunhilda

Brunhilda — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 02:32:16 +0000

Seriously? Every fetus starts out as female, as by that logic, MALES are the altered ones, heck, it’s due to the Y chromosome, particularly the SRY region that they even BECOME males, without it, they end up essentially female phenotypically.

By: Calli Arcale

Calli Arcale — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 18:50:16 +0000

PGP — I know I’ve seen you on Respectful Insolence plenty of times. Are you arguing that Orac should leave his profession? 😀

By: Northern.Lights

Northern.Lights — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 22:40:48 +0000

I disagree. A scientist who studies anything will grow inured to the thing they study.

By: Politicalguineapig

Politicalguineapig — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 22:07:21 +0000

TheBrummell: The difference is that speed of light and the value of pi aren’t inherently disruptive to one sex’s brain. Nor
do they carry the same baggage that sex organs carry.
Unless he’s gay, a man attempting to measure women’s breasts will become distracted and his behavior will disrupt the whole experiment.

By: TheBrummell

TheBrummell — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 20:13:29 +0000

Politicalguineapig, while I agree that a bit of independent oversight might be appropriate for studies of some topics – pretty much anything described as “cultural anthropology” perhaps – your knee-jerk reaction is very suggestive of the extreme (and ridiculous) position that basic scientific data, simple facts accepted by pretty much everybody such as the speed of light, or the value of pi, would be different if measured or calculated by a woman. Is a man inherently incapable of measuring the size of a woman’s breasts?

By: Politicalguineapig

Politicalguineapig — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 16:25:04 +0000

That study is totally invalid. Any study run by a man to study women should be tossed in the junk heap, since the overseer of the study is invariably going to report the results he and society want to see. Also, bras can never and will never fit properly.