Yet another creepy research study
Published by Sabotabby November 12th, 2007 in For the ladies, Health, Yay! Science!Pretend that you’re a journalist for the BBC. You’ve just seen the results of a scientific study on a group of women that shows a correlation between a large hip-to-waist ratio and high scores on cognitive tests. (Ignore, for a moment, the absurdity of doing such a study in the first place.) Now you’re going to report on that study. Which of these angles are you most likely to take?
• Fat deposits aren’t that bad for you: in fact, they may be linked to higher intelligence.
• Diet, which is linked to social class, affects performance on cognitive tests.
• Hey men! Curvy women are smarter. If you have sex with them, they’ll bear you smarter kids, which is apparently the primary purpose of women. Anyway, the main thing is that you don’t need to hide your fetish for chubby chicks anymore. Go get yourself one!
The other headlines on that page are also quite telling:
Sexy walks ‘keep men off scent’
Gaze ‘key to facial attraction’
‘Hormonal’ women most attractive
Attraction ‘determined by walk’
Slim waist holds sway in history
Hourglass figure fertility link
No one has anything more important to research or report on? Really?
Hat tip: Jenlight.
Nice. Keeping women in their place as babymakers, and yet telling them that they’re smarter if they’ve got bigger hips. As opposed to what? Matchstick thin thighs like the models?
Ask me what I’m going to do with all this junk, all this junk, all this junk, in my trunk.
I’m gonna gonna solve this differential equation then get you drunk, get you drunk, get you drunk.
And yeah, it was nice of that headline to completely ignore the last two paragraphs of the article, you know, the ones that quote that expert:
That’s a nice final sentence, but who is this ‘we’ and what is he calling ‘logical’?
where do these researchers come from, by the way? and how do they get money for this shit?
That’s a nice final sentence, but who is this ‘we’ and what is he calling ‘logical’?
I would imagine ‘we’ are other researchers who are into the waist-to-hip ratio thing. There’s actually a bunch done on that, especially about how men ‘prefer’ a 0.8 ratio because this is so optimal for childbearing, but this is the first time I’ve ever seen someone say that really, it’s just not that important.
I believe this theory itself is actually and expression of institutionalized violence toward women.
In a way, I like how the BBC links to earlier similar stories. At least the contradictions let you know how little there is to them. In other BBC news I read today, house prices are up, down, recovering, booming and stagnating.
Hey, I’ve grown a cup size in the last decade, and I HAVE gotten smarter!!
Of course, that could just be life experience. Aging usually brings wisdom. And a few extra pounds.
What a dumbass study.