If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to The Rawness RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Every now and then I come across something that I wish I wrote. This piece from Craiglist’s “Best Of” section is a perfect example. It’s called “Myths and Truths,” and I’ve reproduced it in full below. I’m sure [...]
I heard an interesting theory a few years back when I first got into evolutionary psychology about how the cuteness of babies is a trait that helps babies to survive to adulthood.
According to the theory, at some point in human history there were both ugly babies, who instinctively repulse us, and cute babies, who instinctively [...]
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When I say that the tendency to stereotype isn’t all bad, and in fact is often a good thing, I get a lot of grief. The first thing people think is that I’m somehow anti-minority or pro-white, but everyone from a straight WASP male to a Wiccan black butch [...]
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Ghetto men have a reputation for being tough guys, and to untrained eyes it may seem that the problems many ghetto guys have with violence and the legal system are a result of them being textbook alpha males letting their machismo and testosterone run wild. But I think it’s actually [...]
