Allen

Relevant information with skeptical insights

Revisado: 02-04-21

I agree with some of the assertions in this book. It is a good exploration into the biological implications of evolution on Sex and sexuality. However, some of the conclusions seem to confirm already conceived assertions. One can find 'evidence'to back almost anything, and yes scientific evidence is not immune. In one breath the author concludes that nature and nurture affect the individual, and yet the author does not seem to exptend the same line of reasoning to how nature and nurture can affect a group that occupies the same area. For example, he says it is patronizing to say women do not enter politics because they have been conditioned to think of it as a space for men ( paraphrasing) .He goes on to say politics is about "status seeking ambition that women have a healthy cynicism about." Let us go along with this reasoning for a moment. Women marrying men in power, is that not status and power seeking using their nature in accordance to nurture( environment) in which they occupy? So is it not possible that the conditioning argument could be based on the historical trends that women had to ally themselves with powerful men in order to influence society indirectly since they had been deprived access and power? The author in the same page says that "women have their own minds" ( slaves also had their own minds and yet were not free to choose what they wanted to do), when there is no liberty what does one do? In another line the author says "women could enter politics if they want to , whatever society says" Is this a denial of the suffrage movement? I was not sure while reading, and I am still not certain after contemplation. Why was there a movement in the western hemisphere if women could just decide? What about the women in parts of asia, are those women just biologically disposed to communism? There is a lot one can add to the list inequitable practices one can willfully deny when one chooses to prove an assumption which in itself satisfies our sense of " That how things are," whenever we seek to fill the gaps of our ignorance. One must be acutely aware and careful of the possibility of making associations and calling them causes after observing effects that have too many angles yet unknown to us.

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Best of the series so far

Revisado: 02-22-19

This is probably the most exciting of the series. this was my second read. Very fascinating book. I look forward to reading it the third time.

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insightful

Revisado: 01-28-19

The stipulations are thought provoking. The author offers you the moment. The moment to eliminate the suspension of disbelief in other just to think.

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