Reader Alif Male passes along an excerpt from an Agatha Christie book. From “Dumb Witness” Agatha Christie, (1937) Chapter 2 ============================================================ “But this feeling of hers for Rex Donaldson was different, it went deeper. She felt instinctively that here there would be no passing on…. Her need of him was simple and profound. Everything about … Read more
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Study of the Year material here. You’ll laugh, you’ll nod knowingly, you’ll thank god you weren’t born in Kenya. The prevalence of extra-marital partnerships among women was 6.2% within a reference time of six months. Factors that were independently associated with increased likelihood of extra-marital partnerships were domestic violence (aOR, 1.45; 95% CI 1.09–1.92), women … Read more
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As reported by NPR (I’m sure with gritted teeth), a Pew Study finds that the milliennial generation has a low level of social trust. There are several possible causes for this distrust, including a skewed social media culture and a faltering economy. […] One explanation for this, the study suggests, is growing racial diversity – … Read more
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Posted in Biomechanics is God, Girls on Apr 17th, 2014
It was a brief vignette shoehorned into the end of the day that nonetheless attested to a meaningful psychological and social difference between the sexes. I was walking dislodging a buttplug down a busy sidewalk when I noticed a young-ish black (and possibly gay) guy asking for high fives from passersby. He had something like a clipboard … Read more
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A reader passes along research which discovered that river pollution — specifically, endocrine disrupting chemicals (which are found in everyday products such as pesticides, contraceptive pills and detergents) — in Spanish estuaries is feminizing the male fish. Welly well, CH has been in front decrying a perceptible increase in Western male manboobery aka feminization. We are awash in … Read more
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Robert Cialdini is an expert in psychological manipulation, i.e., goal-oriented communication. (Something we all do, more or less successfully, whether we are aware of our own machinations or not.) He wrote the seminal book Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion. What you may not know is that Cialdini was, in many respects, a founding father of … Read more
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Commenter “H” passes along a quote from J. D. Unwin, CH have you heard of J. D. Unwin? From wikipedia page: In Sex and Culture (1934), Unwin studied 80 primitive tribes and 6 known civilizations through 5,000 years of history and found a positive correlation between the cultural achievement of a people and the sexual … Read more
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Recall the CH extended definition of Game: Applied charisma, i.e. psychological mastery over human perception. This broader definition is important, because it clarifies to the lay reader the applicability to game to human interactions and pursuits other than those involving romantic gratification. For instance, notice the commonality between Poon Commandment V… V. Adhere to the … Read more
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What men are becoming: What women are becoming: something strange’s afoul in the land when men are women and women men a cataclysm in mind and soul harbinger of deathly toll these omens abound in plain sight yet blind are we to our odd blight our daughters’ wombs drying up our sons’ spirits in a … Read more
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When feminists aren’t happily asserting that women cheat just as much as men do, they’re raging that cheating men are insecure chauvinist pigs who are afraid of strong, independent women. As per usual with the human emojis known as feminists, trying to square their internal contradictions is an exercise in infinitely recursive futility. Which is … Read more
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