tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32588467676167089852012-02-03T06:18:24.072-05:00Everything You Never Wanted to Know about Nothing Whatsoeveran.optimistic.cynichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13070852053869141583noreply@blogger.comBlogger331100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3258846767616708985.post-26176938990487711402008-06-02T13:34:00.001-04:002008-06-02T13:36:30.212-04:00

Alright, June is here; school is out; work has slowed; finally time for some updates.The following will probably be the last such story I post here for awhile.[Here]It’s another case of a female teacher sexually abusing her male students.It seems to me, your humble blogger, we have been hearing of an ever-increasing number of these role reversals.That raises two questions: is this a new trend? Or

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As my grandma would say, "shitfire"! Busy days at work and finals at school kinda cramp up time to post. I just found this one interesting; of course, it should come as no great surprise to anyone with half a brain. Spend a little time on a girl’s sports team for anecdotal evidence if you like.WASHINGTON - Estrogen fuels feelings of power and competition in women in much the same way testosterone

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Estrogen levels shot up in power-motivated women when they won and plummeted when they lost, while the opposite was true in women who appeared not to be interested in power, the researchers found.“The biology of dominance in women has been vastly under-researched. On top of that, it sets up very nice parallels with men and testosterone,” said Steven Stanton of the University of Michigan, who

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Yep. Yet another female-instigated violence story, further strenghthening my argument that the "weaker sex" continues in its attempts to match its male counterparts in both type and degrees of assaults.NASHUA, N.H. (AP) - After a Red Sox-Yankees argument spilled outside a bar, a Yankee fan aimed her car at a group of people to scare them and didn't brake, hitting and killing a man, authorities

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The Yankees fan, Ivonne Hernandez, was arraigned Monday on reckless second-degree murder and drunken driving charges and was held without bail. She did not enter a plea.Hernandez, 43, was speeding early Friday toward a small group that included the man, Matthew Beaudoin, 29, and never hit her brakes, a prosecutor said Monday."She accelerated at a high speed for about 200 feet. She went directly

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http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Stossel/comments?type=story&id=4437402

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I'm going to go out on a limb here, and will submit that this woman will be treated a little more harshly than she would have had it been a boy she had been caught with. Again, we go back to those idiotic stereotypes: boys want sex regardless of where, when or whom it is. Girls never want sex and must be protected at all costs. ...Americans are so stupid.Read the story [Here] .

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I’m running across more and more of these kinds of stories. Whether that means such incidents are on the rise or that we’re just more aware of them is something I cannot answer.I can speculate, of course; on that I would imagine that it’s a new trend. As I've stated before, when it was males only exhibiting this behavior, society was content simply to prosecute the crimes and move on with life.

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A judge set bond for the Albany, New York woman who police say made plans online to meet up with a 15-year-old boy.Officers are holding 44-year old Tracy Taylor on $50,000 cash.The Eau Claire Police Department says Taylor was taken into custody for attempted sexual assault of a child, using a computer to facilitate a sex crime and child enticement.Officers say she met the 15-year-old boy on a

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A suspended middle school teacher out on bail for allegedly having sex with two students will be back in court Tuesday after police say they caught her having sex with one of them againStephanie Ragusa, 29, was arrested for the third time in about six weeks on charges of sex with a minor, MyFOXTampa reported. She was being held without bond at the Orient Road Jail."I can assure you that we are

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In a similar vein to aOC’s posts (rants ;) ), I just thought I’d point out that bigotry doesn’t require a Y chromosome.Now I certainly can’t prove racism was the motive for what was happening here, but I have a sneaking suspicion that this girl is a pasty-white neo-Con whose complaint against “them foreigners” is “they’re takin’ ‘r jebs!”ATHENS--- An update now to a story we reported Tuesday

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Others at Athens Middle School say they are relieved the truth was found in the investigation.More importantly they say they're glad no one was assaulted on campus.Picture of scratches and bruises caught the eye of East Texans and the rest of the country this week . Melanie Bowers claimed those pictures proved she was beaten by a group of students.Even more disturbing was the claim that "the

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Just to reiterate an earlier point, I am somewhat amused by the media's hysteria on this issue. When it was just boys beating each other to death, there was little talk about curbing their behavior. "Boys will be boys" and similar bullshit.However, when it's girls beathing each other to death...why, something must be wrong. What's happening to our girls?! JESUS CHRIST, WHY HAVE YOU FORESAKEN US?!

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Now this is an interesting study, and it certainly raises important questions. But I really, really don’t think such an all-encompassing statement can be made about gender in dementia trends based on one study; one study that focused on one town.I hate to generalize, but since we have a study based in Minnesota, can we safely assume the population of this study is predominately caucasion?

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Forgetfulness linked with aging, or just a frenzied day, is normal. Say, you misplace your car keys or wallet, or you can't remember where you parked the car. Red flags should pop up when you start forgetting things you normally remember, and on a routine basis, such as weekly appointments, doctors say. These are signs of so-called mild cognitive impairment (MCI), which can lead to

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Greetings again from America, land of hypocrisyBy now, you have probably seen at least one of the three following stories: [Here] [Here] and [Here]. As you may have noticed, all three feature female-on-female violence.While such shenanigans were once the province of males only, society – or at least, pop culture – seemed content to let such behavior slide; “boys will be boys” after all.Now that

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There's more disturbing video circulating on the internet of violence inside a school. This time the video shows a teenager in Arizona being hit over the head with a metal chair.The attack, which was recorded on a cell phone occurred last week in Prescott Valley. Watch today's [Netcast] to see one student walk up behind the victim in the cafeteria and hit her over the head with a metal chair.

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University of Mississippi officials say three female students were treated for cuts and another was arrested after an altercation on campus that likely involved a boxcutter. Authorities said Marisha Porter, a 19-year-old freshman from Columbus, was arrested and charged with aggravated assault. The incident at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday involved at least six students. A news release from the university

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Eight Florida teenagers charged with beating another teen so they could post the "animalistic" attack on YouTube got exactly what they had wanted - worldwide exposure.But that doesn't mean YouTube or any other media company should get the blame, legally or ethically, for the attack, media experts said Friday.In fact, they have a duty to share the video, said Kelly McBride, the ethics group leader

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[Relevant Link]I have no problem pointing out flaws with research like this.The report won't be out until June, so we really can't reliably criticize it. Buuuut, I can tell you what I normally see with studies similar to this onfe. Surveys are a great resource tool. Unfortunately, they are not always a reliable resource tool. I'll get back later with specifics, but lest I be mistaken, 3,300

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There are a lot of problems with studies like this. I won’t even go into the problems regarding reliability and sample sizes, but I do take issue with the way it’s presented by the press.If you’ll notice, there doesn’t appear to be any fact-checking by the reporter; all too often, they look over the press release, cut it down to size and print the results. I wish I could say that it’s not a

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Here are some details of the overall findings:- A larger percentage of men than of women accept discrimination, in general. For example, men on the phone were 7.6 percent more likely than women to tolerate discrimination against the obese and 8.9 percent more likely to accept racial profiling of African-American motorists.- The “sex gap” – that is, the difference between the percentages of men

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As I stated in an earlier post, I'm new to blogging. So if you shold have any criticism please keep it constructive. I still may not care what you have to say, but at least be polite. It may not be apparent judging by what I've written, but I don't disagree that there very well may be innate differences - behaviorally - between the genders. The problem I have with the debate, especially in the

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It’s been a few days, and I see that the blog remains guest-free. No matter; in time it may be seen by many. Or may not. Whatever.Anyway, to further my contention that there are few if any innate gender differences, I present the following.Among promiscuous African topi antelopes on the savannah, the battle of the sexes runs in reverse — females aggressively compete for mates, while the males

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"When biologists talk about the 'battle of the sexes,' they often tacitly assume that the battle is between persistent males who always want to mate and females who don't," said researcher Jakob Bro-Jorgensen, a zoologist at the Zoological Society of London.Now Bro-Jorgensen has found a reversal of these stereotypical sex roles with the topi, which dwells in the savannahs and floodplains of

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These fundies are such tools. Good Rep. Donohoe says further down in the article that he would see nothing wrong with students holding satanic rituals if they so choose, all in the name of equality. Please excuse me if I scoff loudly. So I suppose it'd be alright if I toss a pee-soaked Bible onto a burning American flag. Yeah, I'm sure he'd be quite OK with that.Kansas House Representative Owen

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The bill, if enacted into law, would mean faculty could avoid teaching any fact or subject that they claimed conflicted with their religious beliefs.The bill would also declare that students have an inalienable right to “participate in a private religious ceremony held on a public school campus outside of instructional time.”Donohoe said the impetus for the bill was “nothing specific,” but the

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Well hello there, darlin’. Come, sit down. Let me take that coat. Would you care for some tea?I’ll allow OC the sole soapbox for politics and gender relations; I want all the science-y stuff.Time to expound on a pet peeve of mine. I have the misfortune of living in the same state as the Creation Museum, located in Covington, Kentucky. If I so choose, I could pay a visit to fantasyland in about an

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Mark Liberman is my new hero. :)After surfing yesterday, I found more on Leonard Sax than I thought was ever listed. Apparently, a little peeved that Dr. Liberman of Language Log (UPenn) exposed his poor reasoning skills, Leonard Sax penned two responses [here] and [here] late in 2007.While Dr. Liberman hasn't answered his letters directly, you can see [here] he was rather unimpressed.

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In my previous post, you may have seen the name Leonard Sax highlighted. Though he has been instrumental in cramming single-sex classrooms down the collective throat of America, he's a bit put-off that Greene County is mandating only single-sex learning. I assume the reason for this is similar to that of Dr. Michael Behe's non-support of Intelligent Design during the Pennsylvania school board

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I adore this; apparently, all of humanity can be split evenly into two distinct categories. And as an added bonus, each of those two categories possesses a unique, definitive mode of learning that doesn't vary between individuals within those two groups. But never shall the twain meet, for what would occur if one member of a group learned better through the techniques being used by the other?

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This pine-shrouded county of about 14,400 people between Atlanta and Augusta has in recent years become a magnet for retirees moving into luxury developments along the shore of Lake Oconee. But the vast majority of longtime residents — and most of the 2,000 students in the county's schools — are black and working class. McCollough pointed to research showing that boys and girls learn differently,

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Allow me to welcome you to my blog: I’m not sure who - if anyone - will ever visit this site. I would prefer they do, but if not…meh.Should anyone actually care enough to visit, they will find that a large number of posts will involve scientific research covering gender.I was prompted to start this blog after witnessing a plethora of unproven, pseudoscientific claims made by “researchers” go

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