Linkage (particularly about writing)

[erudito]

Study claims women typically care more about width than length. Via phanatic.

Possibly how many women feel about high heels (not completely worksafe).

Why not read in your bookcase?

Fred Saberhagen died recently and it is Robert Heinlein’s centenary. An essay in appreciation of RAH by Spider Robinson which certainly got me wondering how much I have

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Re: Penis study

[korgmeister]

Any study about women and relationships which deals with stated, rather than revealed preference is a complete fucking waste of time.

In addition, this freudian slip near the end of the article is fucking win!

"When faced with a patient with SDS"

Re: Penis study

[erudito]

*chuckle*

(There are times when you sound a little twitter and bisted.)

BYW, I have added more to my review of Wright's book on al-Qaeda in my preceding post.

[tyggerjai]

I was thinking about Heinlein just the other day, when it occurred to me to wonder how many of my friends believe both:

a) That the idea of only allowing people to vote after (military) service ala Starship Troopers increases the likelihood that a society will choose to go to war to solve diplomatic problems, by "selecting" for warlike traits in voters,

and also,

b) That the U.S. rushed into a war in Iraq because so few of the Bush government, including Bush himself, had actually experienced the horror of war.

I was looking for an example of the concept of cognitive dissonance, you see. I seem to recall a number of my friends at some point loudly espousing both theories.

[0] I seem to recall that there were other ways of getting the vote, but certainly that's the popular interpretation of the theory, and not an unreasonable presentation of Heinlein's personal views, if I recall correctly.

jai.
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Indeed

[erudito]

There is a lot of cognitive dissonance around. (Try Dubya is a fool and complete incompetent who rigged the 2004 election/organised 9/11 as deliberate provocation/conspiracy theory of your choice.)

I suspect a lot of folk would advanced both propositions. As for (a), I remember coming across a study which found the more veterans in Congress, the less warlike Congress was. Sounds about right. (I seem to remember that Haldeman wrote The Forever War as a rebuttal to Heinlein then changed his mind.)

In Starship Troopers, you did have to do military service to vote, but the service was not necessarily warlike, given there were no disability barriers to serving, merely where/how you served.

[pache]

Study claims women typically care more about width than length. Via phanatic.

A friend's mother once informed us "Long & thin goes too far in, but short & thick does the trick".

I spent that friend's 21st smoking pot in the backyard with her mum (and it was her mum's pot too).

Ahh.. memories =)

Nice memories

[erudito]

Of course, gay boys may have the opposite perspective ...