Sometimes I think the “Science for Choads” section would be better called the “Science Reporting for Choads”, but that would be too narrow to include all the people that make science-y sounding claims with absolutely no evidence to back it up. Via Echidne, the latest “science confirms all your gender prejudices” story is particularly nasty in terms of implication and timing.
WASHINGTON – A new brain-scan study may help explain what’s going on in the minds of financial titans when they take risky monetary gambles — sex. When young men were shown erotic pictures, they were more likely to make a larger financial gamble than if they were shown a picture of something scary, such a snake, or something neutral, such as a stapler, university researchers reported.
The arousing pictures lit up the same part of the brain that lights up when financial risks are taken.
“You have a need in an evolutionary sense for both money and women. They trigger the same brain area,” said Camelia Kuhnen, a Northwestern University finance professor who conducted the study with a Stanford University psychologist.
Remember: The capitalist patriarchy can do no wrong. That is the first rule. Everything that goes wrong is due to effeminate liberals or actual women.
The war would have gone smashing if not for the effeminate peace movement that stabbed the country in the back, just like a bitch would. Hell, why “stab in the back”? Why not “poison the eggs” to drive home the point? The inevitable abuses when you give men power over women — rape, domestic violence — women’s fault, of course, for starting shit. Women’s inequalities? Women’s choice.
But it’s going to be hard to explain how a male-dominated financial sector that gambled and deregulated our economy to shreds is actually innocent, because it’s some bitches that did it. But here’s your proof: These guys would have sober, cautious, hard-working members of society who give back instead of getting greedy if women didn’t flaunt the boobage. Housing crisis is all about those terrible women with the sex… [emphasis added]
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Sometimes I just shake my head in pure wonderment at the sheer idiocy that the right wing tries to pass off as science, but in spite of it, I have to agree. The depression is coming because of boobs!
Cross-posted from Politics Plus
