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	<title>Comments on: Strawberry Shortcake speaks to our deepest instinct for survival.</title>
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		<title>By: Neko-Onna</title>
		<link>http://punkassblog.com/2007/08/21/strawberry-shortcake-speaks-to-our-deepest-instinct-for-survival/#comment-48274</link>
		<dc:creator>Neko-Onna</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The question I always have about evo psych is this: by the time we were organized hunter-gatherers, weren't we pretty much all ready evolved?  I mean, if we REALLY wanted to look at evolutionary influence on brain structure, wouldn't we really have to go back farther than that? The whole women gather/ men hunt thing can be traced back to the neolithic, at best.  Even a lot of the so-called evidence for that is pretty sketchy. Before that, who even KNOWS what kind of labor division was going on, or even what kind of social structures our ancestors were living in.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The question I always have about evo psych is this: by the time we were organized hunter-gatherers, weren&#8217;t we pretty much all ready evolved?  I mean, if we REALLY wanted to look at evolutionary influence on brain structure, wouldn&#8217;t we really have to go back farther than that? The whole women gather/ men hunt thing can be traced back to the neolithic, at best.  Even a lot of the so-called evidence for that is pretty sketchy. Before that, who even KNOWS what kind of labor division was going on, or even what kind of social structures our ancestors were living in.</p>
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		<title>By: micheyd</title>
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		<dc:creator>micheyd</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yep, I totally just wanna gnaw on that ipod.  Yum.

God, people are stupid.  You don't develop an "evolutionary" preference for the blue of the sky just because it's there and you look at it.  The preference has to increase your reproductive fitness somehow.  Are they saying that looking longingly into the sky makes more babies?  I'd like to see the story they spin to make that work.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yep, I totally just wanna gnaw on that ipod.  Yum.</p>
<p>God, people are stupid.  You don&#8217;t develop an &#8220;evolutionary&#8221; preference for the blue of the sky just because it&#8217;s there and you look at it.  The preference has to increase your reproductive fitness somehow.  Are they saying that looking longingly into the sky makes more babies?  I&#8217;d like to see the story they spin to make that work.</p>
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		<title>By: Kyso Kisaen</title>
		<link>http://punkassblog.com/2007/08/21/strawberry-shortcake-speaks-to-our-deepest-instinct-for-survival/#comment-48225</link>
		<dc:creator>Kyso Kisaen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>True, and I've always felt that all pale hues were a bit girly so never saw the point in claiming that sky blue is a more masculine color than pale pink.  It's all a part and parcel of the feminine = childish belief that was even more prevalent back when these colors were being assigned their arbitrary meanings.  I believe it was the book Pink Think that told me the pink/girl blue/boy association is less than 150 years old, and didn't become popular in America until the mid-20th century.

And at least the Virgin Mary bit has an honestly arbitrary source - Mary is commonly pictured as wearing blue, so it's her color.  Even if they're using the color to signal "girl!  girl here!", no one says the girls forced to dress like Mary are doing so because they have an evolutionary desire to emulate Christ's mother.  I mean honestly, we have pink Nintendo handheld gaming devices because it hearkens back to our hunter-gatherer days?  Men never needed to spot berries for consumption while hunting, so they didn't pick up this love of pink?  Berries would have been a special treat, like dessert, back then - they're extra sweet, hard to find, and you've got to compete with everything else that wants them and can eat them before their short ripe period.  Seems like if we're hunting and gathering, the ability to find berries would be a skill prized by both genders.

This woman is so clearly talking out of her ass, it boggles my mind.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>True, and I&#8217;ve always felt that all pale hues were a bit girly so never saw the point in claiming that sky blue is a more masculine color than pale pink.  It&#8217;s all a part and parcel of the feminine = childish belief that was even more prevalent back when these colors were being assigned their arbitrary meanings.  I believe it was the book Pink Think that told me the pink/girl blue/boy association is less than 150 years old, and didn&#8217;t become popular in America until the mid-20th century.</p>
<p>And at least the Virgin Mary bit has an honestly arbitrary source - Mary is commonly pictured as wearing blue, so it&#8217;s her color.  Even if they&#8217;re using the color to signal &#8220;girl!  girl here!&#8221;, no one says the girls forced to dress like Mary are doing so because they have an evolutionary desire to emulate Christ&#8217;s mother.  I mean honestly, we have pink Nintendo handheld gaming devices because it hearkens back to our hunter-gatherer days?  Men never needed to spot berries for consumption while hunting, so they didn&#8217;t pick up this love of pink?  Berries would have been a special treat, like dessert, back then - they&#8217;re extra sweet, hard to find, and you&#8217;ve got to compete with everything else that wants them and can eat them before their short ripe period.  Seems like if we&#8217;re hunting and gathering, the ability to find berries would be a skill prized by both genders.</p>
<p>This woman is so clearly talking out of her ass, it boggles my mind.</p>
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		<title>By: Mnemosyne</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mnemosyne</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is why I'm making a blue-and-white dress for my 1-year-old niece -- ignore the paradigm.

Of course, among my people (Roman Catholics), blue is a traditional color for girls because it's the Virgin Mary's color.  So the poor kid just can't win.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is why I&#8217;m making a blue-and-white dress for my 1-year-old niece &#8212; ignore the paradigm.</p>
<p>Of course, among my people (Roman Catholics), blue is a traditional color for girls because it&#8217;s the Virgin Mary&#8217;s color.  So the poor kid just can&#8217;t win.</p>
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		<title>By: norbizness</title>
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		<dc:creator>norbizness</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What about Blueberry Muffin? The Peculiar Purple Pieman of Porcupine Peak? Oh, the gender confusion!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What about Blueberry Muffin? The Peculiar Purple Pieman of Porcupine Peak? Oh, the gender confusion!</p>
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