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[writerspleasure]

Men tend to hate it when women cry-for reasons that they often have difficulty articulating. Now, new research suggests why - men may be biologically primed to react to a woman's tears. According to a new study, even a whiff of these tears can dramatically reduce men's testosterone levels and to a lesser extent, their sense of sexual arousal. With

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[hannahsarah]

Too bad it doesn't have that effect on rapists. :-(

[writerspleasure]

i see a market in misters. personal defense fog zone.

that and a good weapon against the scum.

[hannahsarah]

I'd rather carry a mister full of wasp spray or high volume pepper spray.

Oh yeah, and a big ass gun. :-D

[writerspleasure]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ms._45

[baron_waste]

Even though that makes sense, I don't trust these out-of-nowhere “studies.” Junk science “studies” have been a standard weapon of feminist hate for decades. “Studies show that -” whatever they want them to show. Just don't expect peer review or transparency, and 'methodology' is a school for actors.

[writerspleasure]

"hate" is overused. it's a limbic-system hit.

junk science has been used by anti-feminists - and feminists. considering the hugeness of the social constructionist claim and the falsity of it, i'd say the feminists have more to answer for.

[two_stabs]

I love that this joke community is still going strong.

[pocketfullofsin]

And human beings are primed to respond to anything that even vaguely resembles a human baby.

WHAT IS YR POINT

[writerspleasure]

> resembles

"Once the tears were collected, they were placed in a jar that participants then sniffed. To keep the men exposed to the scent, scientists taped a pad containing the solution under their noses during the rest of the research. 24 men were studied in the first experiment, which involved simply rating their emotional responses to the smell and to pictures of women. Participants were alternately were exposed to tears or saline solution."

my point: another piece of evidence in the mass of evidence pointing to the profound influence of the biological, in contradistinction to the tinfoil hat religion of social constructionism.

[pocketfullofsin]

Dude, I have never, in my entire academic career, been exposed to this "tinfoil hat religion" you speak of, and I am in it (i.e. a small liberal arts college in southern California).

You, on the other hand, read like a textbook zealot of the Church of Evopsych. You seem to have very little belief in the influence of socialization on behavior which, if I may say as a student of the brain, is straight-up dumb. The brain is immensely plastic and continues to change throughout an individual's life. Change in response to what? Well, the environment. What kind of environment do we live in? A social one. Blammo.

[writerspleasure]

what area of academe are you in?

oh, i think social signaling is obviously important. but that importance is biologically mediated and filtered.

what kind of environment do we live in? a living one. society is not the only object of consciousness.