WTF?!? Are you a newbie or just a troll??!? I had to check your profile (which I am loathe to do usually) just to make sure you weren't KenTX in disguise. Get a fucking clue and please try and be more polite in the future.

You are an absolutist, where as I am far more of a relativist. You say things with complete certainty, where as I'm more interested in raising questions. I try not to use terms like "no one" (as in "no one who actually understands...), never, always etc.

You come off really rude and authoritative and it makes you sound ignorant. Of course you are right, genetics has nothing to do with anything, it is all society and upbringing. You are 100 percent right, right? Because you can't have any doubt in there, it might make your whole argument collapse.

If I wrote a perfect example of what you were talking about, then you too exemplified my argument, that whenever a guy tries to be honest about his feelings, suddenly he's just a dude shot through with insecurity. Please try and separate my self-deprecating humor in a comment section describing men as self-loathing dogs who just want to lie and fuck and lie, and my comments on the evolutionary process. And maybe just maybe realize that I'm self-aware of writing in that style and more secure in my masculinity than you realize. In other words secure enough to expose the insecurity.

Genetics are changing, the y chromosome does mutate, these are simply facts. Can I ask you a question, what grades did you get in math and biology and chemistry? Another? Have you ever read Darwin's "Voyage of the Beagle" or "On the Origin of Species " ? These might be good places to start for you to try and get a basic grasp. Are you sure there is no way I could understand the evolutionary process? You're sure?

The Y chromosome is devolving through mutation, the rate at which it is devolving is increasing and at an exponential rate. But I also posed this, if you reread it, in terms of a millennial scale, and no where did I say that it is solely happening over 2 or 3 generations. Yes the rate at which it is happening has increased over the past 100 years, but it has been going on for 100,000 years.

Think of a damn into which you pour water, the rate at which you pour it ever increasing. At some point it hits a critical stage where it is going to burst the damn. It might take 100,000 drops, but as the rate increases exponentially, eventually it is no longer dropping but flowing and you cannot pinpoint precisely when or where which drop of water is the one that causes the damn to final break. We are at or approaching that point now, on the cusp of evolutionary change.

I completely believe in societal change, in the changing role of women in the home and workplace effecting changes in politics which reverberate back. But to say that genetics has nothing to do with anything is just silly.

If you'd like to continue this I wouldn't mind but please don't attack me personally anymore and please read up on some modern genetics, there have been so many advances in the past few years, you really ought to check your facts and make sure that you understand the evolutionary process yourself before making blanket statements about other's knowledge. Thanks.

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by tiggerporn on 01/27/2009 09:41:00 PM EST

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