DNA pioneer's lecture cancelled after comments on race

Watson - of the Watson-Crick and the double helix band, is - wah, wah? Not surprisingly yet another ..... RACIST!

Shocked? I'm not - really. Before we jump to the conclusion that I'm anti-science - repeat after me: Race is a construct, it's fluid and there is no scientific proof of the existence of intellectual advantage favouring one 'group' of people over another. Racism masked as science - is still racism - and that's always devoid of fact.

The newspaper quoted the 79-year-old American geneticist as saying he was "inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa" because "all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours — whereas all the testing says not really."

What does shock me though is that 99% of the world's population fails to see the connect between the current 'third-world' and past colonial expansion/exploitation.

How is it that people don't see - that the so-called 'equality-scale' - started off unbalanced in the first place? How do people not get this? How do people not see that when you steal/rape/exploit/murder/mutilate/severly destroy a society there is no hope in hell that they will ever be able to 'stand up' on their feet in the first place. (Putting aside that the development "MODEL" is flawed itself).

What do people not get about this?

Read full article here.

Me thinks they ought to revoke his nobel...

Drop the Cosmo for the relationship advice - pick up a feminist book for your own benefit first!

Something we feminists always knew!
I'd write more - but I do have to say profeminist men in hetero-relationships are always far more happier in a relationship because as one guy told me "it allowed him to get rid of his macho facade and open up more".... :)

Feminism And Romance Go Hand In Hand
Science Daily — Contrary to popular opinion, feminism and romance are not incompatible and feminism may actually improve the quality of heterosexual relationships, according to Laurie Rudman and Julie Phelan, from Rutgers University in the US. Their study* also shows that unflattering feminist stereotypes, that tend to stigmatize feminists as unattractive and sexually unappealing, are unsupported.

It is generally perceived that feminism and romance are in direct conflict. Rudman and Phelan’s work challenges this perception. They carried out both a laboratory survey of 242 American undergraduates and an online survey including 289 older adults, more likely to have had longer relationships and greater life experience. They looked at men’s and women’s perception of their own feminism and its link to relationship health, measured by a combination of overall relationship quality, agreement about gender equality, relationship stability and sexual satisfaction.

They found that having a feminist partner was linked to healthier heterosexual relationships for women. Men with feminist partners also reported both more stable relationships and greater sexual satisfaction. According to these results, feminism does not predict poor romantic relationships, in fact quite the opposite.
The authors also tested the validity of feminist stereotypical beliefs amongst their two samples, based on the hypothesis that if feminist stereotypes are accurate, then feminist women should be more likely to report themselves as being single, lesbian, or sexually unattractive, compared with non-feminist women.

Rudman and Phelan found no support for this hypothesis amongst their study participants. In fact, feminist women were more likely to be in a heterosexual romantic relationship than non-feminist women. The authors conclude that feminist stereotypes appear to be inaccurate, and therefore their unfavorable implications for relationships are also likely to be unfounded.

* Reference: Rudman LA & Phelan JE (2007). The interpersonal power of feminism: is feminism good for romantic relationships? Sex Roles (DOI 10.1007/s11199-007-9319-9)

Note: This story has been adapted from material provided by Springer.

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I like.....

And he's pretty cute too.... but I have a thing for small eyes, sharp/long noses and glasses.... but that's just me....

brilliant....

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