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- Error601, on 10/11/2007, -38/+357I call BS. Brunettes are more attractive.
- Lobstertacular, on 10/11/2007, -4/+281I'd like to point out that Futurama figured all of this out years ago:
The whole reason for all of civilization is so that guys could impress girls and get them to have sex with them! - zwendkos, on 10/11/2007, -6/+14011. Black people are more athletic.
- MrBrenner, on 10/11/2007, -17/+143This article is pure conjecture; upsetting social norms requires proof. The people demand sources.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -8/+134Hey I dream of having sex with blondes ... and brunettes and black girls and asian girls and indian girls, pretty much if you have an XX chromosome im good.
- HeyaBILL, on 10/11/2007, -1/+111In #7 - "and write new computer software in order to impress women so that they will agree to have sex with them."
Where do these women live? - praisethelard, on 06/06/2008, -6/+88Well, my personal preference is brunette, but I think it depends on the girl. Basically, I think girls should just keep their natural hair and lay off the highlights.
- coinman987, on 10/11/2007, -16/+96psychologytoday isn't even a real psychology magazine. they will print anything as long as you give them enough money.
- jmpeagle, on 10/11/2007, -12/+80the country with the most suicide bombers ever and with more suicide bombers per capita is Sri Lanka, and it is Hindu
- Lobstertacular, on 10/11/2007, -3/+66source?
- Truegod, on 10/11/2007, -20/+80Redheads are the hottest.
- afruff23, on 10/11/2007, -13/+62"The other key ingredient is the promise of 72 virgins waiting in heaven for any martyr in _Islam_."
They mean lying militants acting in the name of Islam. This article really grasps at straws, especially for the suicide bombing argument. Not nearly as many Muslims as you may think are polygamous. Of all the Muslims I have ever encountered, only 1 has had 2 wives. Everybody else was signle or had one wife. This coming from a Muslim. - azzageddi, on 10/11/2007, -1/+40I find blue eyes to be pretty. I also find green and brown eyes to be pretty. I find women with large breasts to be hot. I also find women with small breasts to be hot (thank god, since I live in Asia). I find slender (though not skinny) women hot, and I find plump (though not fat) women hot. I like 'em tall and short, dark and fair, curly and straight, bubbly and serious.
The only things that turn me off? Unhealthy appearance, rude or crazy behavior, and artificiality (like, y'know, fake boobs or too much makeup).
Anyway, this article is fulla crap. - Disease, on 10/11/2007, -1/+38So basically everything we do is to get laid.
Sweet. - MacBandit, on 10/11/2007, -0/+37As long as it doesn't involve snow, water, or motorized sports.
- jstohler, on 10/11/2007, -17/+53That's one hell of a lame (and inaccurate) generalization.
- argenfish, on 10/11/2007, -9/+45Going grammar Nazi here - since the authors are discussing women in the "blond" section of the article, it should be "blondes," and not blonds, which is the male designation.
And end grammar Nazi moment... now. Thank you. You may now go about your business. - Bobski, on 10/11/2007, -2/+35So does this mean all that need be done to solve this terrorist thing is make sure all muslim boys get laid?
- Janizzary, on 10/11/2007, -14/+47The Muslim suicide bombing explanation is far too simplistic, or rather, inaccurate. Muslim suicide bombers are usually either Palestinian or Iraqi. Guess why? Because they are both an oppressed people!!! If you are oppressed and have no future, THEN, you have nothing to lose!!! Not because all viable mates have been married to wealthier males!
- g30ff, on 10/11/2007, -7/+40In a word, Rome. Polygamy had been practiced (and in some places continues to be practiced, even by non-Mormons) by christians but was later rejected in an effort to conform to Roman values and make itself more appealing (and less controversial). As to why Rome was monogamous, I don't know, but it probably had something to do with inheritance and intra-family discord. Even if the Romans were clearly monogamous as far as the institution of marriage was concerned, there was still an awful lot of sex involving people other than one's wife.
- g30ff, on 10/11/2007, -2/+33There's a lot in the article that is speculative, but not this. There is a great deal of evidence to suggest that humans have always been mildly polygynous beyond the association between sexual size dimorphism and polygyny (which on its own only constitutes weak evidence on which to base a claim about a particular case, humans, especially when polygyny is certainly not the only cause of SSD).
- smurf22, on 10/11/2007, -3/+33I like japanese red heads....... I guess im an odd ball.
- sbader, on 10/11/2007, -5/+32Does anyone know what caused the judeo-christian culture to shift to monogamy from polygamy? I don't remember this ever being addressed in sunday school.
- gpmidi, on 10/11/2007, -0/+25They are like all women on the internet: Non-existent
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IRC: Where the men are men, the women are men, and the kids are FBI agents. - organon, on 10/11/2007, -4/+29Genetic studies have shown that monogamy became popular about 20,000 years ago. So long before recorded history. My main guess for the why is: military power. One alpha male, no matter how strong, cannot defend his harem against dozens or hundreds of non-alphas. So it is basically granting others limited reproductive rights in exchange for them defending your own greater reproductive rights (since men of power and wealth still have their harem in on or another form). And well, from that arrangements all higher civilisations developed. At least that is my guess.
It's also interesting to note that the common female ancestor of all humans lived about 150,000 years ago, the common male ancestor of all humans about 50,000 years ago. Roughly speaking that means, a man has a 3 times higher risk of getting his line extinct than a woman. But that also means (and concluding this is trivial from the fact that one man can have much more offspring than a woman) that the possible reward if you succeed is so much higher for men than women.
Anyone notice how the competition among women is generally a competition among women to get a few select males? While the competition among men is usually to get any women? This is digg, so I guess most people here know this ;) - Battlecry, on 10/11/2007, -1/+25His ass? :)
- Vicissidude, on 10/11/2007, -1/+24Running from cops is a side benefit. That rule should be: American black people are more athletic. Why American blacks? Because America had a 300 year tradition of slavery that was based on breeding the strongest black people to do the hardest work in the fields. That system also worked the weakest to death. And yes, the thought of treating people like breeding stock is despicable without a doubt, but that is what happened. And that is why American black people today dominate athletic sports.
- Vicissidude, on 10/11/2007, -3/+26No, YOU need to read the article. Your explanation makes absolutely no sense considering these men are evolutionary dead-ends. The explanation given in the article for Muslim suicide bombers was that Islam accepts polygamy. So, even with a few men having multiple wives in their society, you get a large group of men who will never get a woman and never have sex. These men would rather literally die for the chance of having sex with 72 virgins in the afterlife rather than live a ***** real lifetime without sex.
- str3ama, on 10/11/2007, -19/+42This is totally *****..It started off good, but as it went on it became clear that it was a joke or just some person's rant. Monogamy suits women, not men! Monogamy allows for a women to have the man involved in the rearing of the child, which lightens some of the burden on her. Whereas in nature, you see the males split after copulation or shortly after gestation. The male can go have sex again with someone else, whereas with monogamy the man stays with the women and thusly he takes responsibility in raising the child.
As for terrorists, it's only what we define as terrorists. I mean in the early 90s we said Russians were terrorists and just about every movie supported this. Today we say it's Muslims, and tomorrow we may say Christians, Hindus or Scientologists - whatever. It has less to do with marriage/sex (which the author tries to link to everything) and more to do with political and historical disputes.
Also sexual harassment and sexism are related, sexism doesn't just mean that you discriminate or stay away from a sex, but rather you degrade and treat them as lesser to your own sex. Sexual harassment means that you're objectifying and degrading, so it is sexist. - EochaidRiata, on 10/11/2007, -1/+23Just look at all of the animals that can hunt/kill humans in Africa compared to Europe. 750,000 years of evolutionary pressure under these conditions could account for that.
- SkullPizza, on 10/11/2007, -0/+22source of this information?
- secretwhistle, on 10/11/2007, -0/+21Unless it's drama - then it's the same sex.
- mriegger, on 10/11/2007, -1/+20"Across all societies, polygyny makes men violent, increasing crimes such as murder and rape, even after controlling for such obvious factors as economic development, economic inequality, population density, the level of democracy, and political factors in the region."
Um, maybe thats true. But would it have killed them to back this up with some charts, graphs or citations? - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -5/+24This falls into the field known as "evolutionary psychology." If you haven't heard of it before, it's where psychologists try to find explanations through natural selection for behaviors and tendencies observed in modern psychology experiments. Not a bad premise except that just about anyone in the field of Anthropology can explain to you why it's useless:
1. Doesn't provide a method for testing hypotheses (i.e. non falsifiable and therefore useless)
2. Goes against major evolutionary trends (as time goes by more evolved species learn more through child rearing and have less genetic based instincts).
3. You can find a gene for anything just because sample sizes are necessarily almost always smaller than they need to be to prove causation and so correlation is settled for. A good example was the recent "gene for going to medical school" paper presented in jest to prove how much of this stuff is bunk.
Seriously if you really liked this article go back and see if you can find any instance in which they attempt to separate their data from environmental factors. - kingkilr, on 10/11/2007, -4/+23They missed one: most people are ***** idiots
- Vicissidude, on 10/11/2007, -5/+23The explanation is poorly worded and antagonistic, but basically correct, if incomplete. The reason these losers are interested in the 72 virgins are because of polygamy in their society allowed by their religion, Islam. Each extra wife that a man takes as a bride means that another man goes without a wife. Each man is allowed by Islam to marry 4 women. So theoretically, 25% of the men could have access to 100% of the women, leaving the other 75% of the men without a woman for their entire lives. Since their religion rewards them with virgins for killing themselves, they gladly trade their lives for the possibility to have sex.
- Amablue, on 10/11/2007, -1/+19There's a step omitted from that. It's make money from said software. That's what'll lure in the chicks.
- Tweekster, on 10/11/2007, -3/+21they are not blonde, they are white haired freaks
there is nothing more pathetic than a woman that tans and dyes, so that the hair color is lighter than the skin color.
skin color should always be lighter than hair - nolanistic, on 10/11/2007, -6/+24The Koran actually mentions 72 Virgin Women and 28 Boys. I'm not joking. That's why the 72 is mentioned as an ODD fact, but it squares out to 100.
- Terr01, on 10/11/2007, -0/+17Accidental diggdown. My bad. I think this thing is pretty scarce on evidence, even if it has some interesting arguments.
- g30ff, on 10/11/2007, -0/+17Monogamy is common enough among birds, but rare in mammals. cornswalled is wrong on this one, of course, however your statement overstates things a bit. It is important to note that we did not evolve from any extant species of ape. It seems reasonable enough to infer that the species we did evolve from was polygynous given that all its descendants are polygynous (humans, chimps) as were its own ancestors. However, behaviour doesn't fossilize very well so we can't know with complete certainty that our ancestors 'did not practice monogamy at all'. One final thing to note is that although some level of polygyny is common among primates, primates tend more towards monogamy (thinking of it as a broad scale from extreme polygyny to monogamy) than do most mammalian taxa, likely because the relatively long period of dependecy as juveniles means offspring are much more likely to survive when they get some degree of paternal effort.
- apiecealarry, on 10/11/2007, -3/+20This article uses somewhat valid statistics to make huge leaps in conclusions which are stated as facts, when they should really be shown as very broad theories. The mechanisms which go into these social actions are infinitely more complex then these misinformed and misleading simplifications.
- SkullPizza, on 10/11/2007, -9/+26You state nothing of the specific religion of the suicide bombers. You only talk of the largest religion within in the country.
- oxdeltaxo, on 10/11/2007, -2/+18I suspect it had something to do with violence control as hinted in the article.
- azzageddi, on 10/11/2007, -1/+17As mentioned elsewhere, the Tamil Tigers are a secular Marxist group. There are Muslims in India, but they are aligned with the Buddhist (not Hindu, actually) majority, as are the Christian and Hindu minorities. The various religions are bound together in their opposition to the terrorists.
- BlackOp, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15Like?
- Scheissen, on 10/11/2007, -7/+21um wtf
asians have black hair - reddevil3, on 10/11/2007, -2/+16This article really is grasping at straws. I have lived my whole life in the Muslim world (and in a Muslim family), and I only knew of this one old guy who had 2 wives. The ratio is probably something like
- nairanvac, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13I love dirty blonds as well. The dirtier the better.
- HillerMylife, on 07/24/2008, -5/+18It's the explanation the article gives.
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