brain tinkles

with election fever in the air...

walking the walk

ok, this one is a minor rant, based on a news story I read on the BBC that you can read here. Go ahead, I'll wait.

whistles tunelessly

For those of you who didn't read the link, it's about a new study done out of Queen's University in Ontario. Researchers there basically found that a woman's walk gets sexier the further from ovulation that she is. Gods I love science. Anyways, that was the "measurable" conclusion of the study. I can buy it. I would have guessed it if I'd ever thought to frame the question in that way. The cause of this rant however is the conclusions reached from that measurement. The researchers concluded that women walk sexier when they're infertile to prevent being raped while fertile.

Blinks. Pardon?

I don't know where to begin. Let's quickly comment on rape and then on to biology. While this kind of conclusion is undoubtedly a result of the pervasive influence of feminist theory in our sciences, it misses one key platform in the feminist theory. Rape isn't about procreation, it's about power. Yes, I know the argument, in primitive societies children are power. But sex isn't awlays about children, which leads us nicely into the biology.

There's an unfortunate tendency in biology to believe that everything in humans comes down to an urge to procreate. Everything we do is to have children. In less civilised societies, hopefully all buried in the past, men spent their days looking for women they thought would get pregnant, and when they found them, WHAM! Clubbed on the head these women were dragged into the nearest cave where the brutish males pursued their quest for children and, many years later, the power children would bring them..

I never went into biology, but presumably it's filled with people of intense and archaic puritan values. How else could they have missed the most important aspect of sex? FUN. Sex is FUN. In fact, I would wager that an easy 90 % of all sexual activity in the world has absolutely nothing to do with procreation. Both genders have developed the necessary biology to enjoy sex. Entire religions have grown up around the joy of an orgasm. And it's been that way for a very long time. A very long time. Enjoying sex may well have been what led to the explosion in brain size that separates us from the rodents.

Even if the biologists at Queens are correct in assuming that primitive man preferred the ovulating woman for his moss romps, the rest of their conclusion doesn't follow. Remember, sex is FUN. If men were only pursuing ovulating women, it would mean that women were only getting laid one week a month, tops. And they would be getting it a lot in that week. Then nothing for three weeks. Suddenly women begin walking more suggestively when not ovulating. Are you following me here? It wasn't to avoid getting raped while ovulating, it was to get laid when not ovulating. Not so they could get pregnant but so they could smile.

Keep smiling.

Peace

surprises

"What do you mean I'm not allowed to go back?"

It's against the rules. I told you.

"But, but I need to go back, I just need to finish one last..."

Look, I told you already. It's not allowed. Do I look like I make these sorts of decisions?

"No, no, I'm sure you don't. I suppose a job's a job and you're just doing yours but really, there must be something you can do?"

Pay attention now, that's not why I'm here. I'm here to make things easier for you.

"I'm sure you are it's just that I need to get back. Ok, I'll be honest. It's not so much left to do as want a look, just one last look."

Silence

"Just one boo?"

Listen up and this is the last time. We tried. We thought we were close with the spiritualist movement but it just didn't last. It's the Age of Reason. And until that changes there will be no more hauntings. Now come with me, we've got a lovely waiting room and you'll be perfectly comfortable while you wait...

choices

the athiest, unable to decide which god to believe in, decides there are none.