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Culture has a larger part in shaping humans than it has for any other extant (or for that matter, extinct) species I know of, and I believe I've implied as much in this thread when talking about sexual orientation. We were however discussing biology. I claimed that it is biologically plausible...

Also, I don't know about the US (as usual), nor am I claiming my experience is representative of Europe or even Austria (as usual), but in my personal experience, fathers in search of a diaper changing table, or fathers accompanying a daughter old enough to go to the toilet herself but too young...

I'd rather not continue this particular line if discussion. There's probably 5-10 threads where it better fits over in Political Discussions, and there's a reason I'm largely starting out of PD. My desire for political forth and back in this venue is amply satisfied with mutual accusations of...

I didn't say it's the only significant factor. I said it is a factor that must not be lightly discarded when comparing two groups one of which is obviously marginalised.

I give you the history of (gang) crime in NYC and New England. Less than a century ago, the scene was dominated by Irish Catholic immigrants and their descendents, with a significant Jewish component, two groups that were being given a hard time by old-time New Yorkers. Half a century later, the...

"Women" and "men" are meaningful categories. But there are things in the realm of what you can get when you expose embryos to a mix of hormones that aren't clearly one or the other. Also, "beer" and "bread" are meaningful categories in the realm of what you get when you release yeast onto...

Maybe not Britons, but there certainly Greek nationalists who find it hard to believe that Greek could have come from anywhere else; there are Bulgarians who are convinced that, just as the written tradition of Slavic languages originated in the Balkans, so must have the Slavic languages...

I don't know if you think any of this contradicts what I said, or why you would if your think it does. @Bomb#20 had suggested to use whether reindeer use antler size and shape to gauge the sex of an individual in incomplete information scenarios to determine whether its a secondary sex trait...

Well I did say this: the most controversial part about the proposition that "a male body can totally have a female (or unusually female-like) brain in it" is the notion that "female brain" is a useful category We aren't that far apart on this. I will however comment on this line of yours: To...

Is no testosterone even on the table? It's anyone going for it? Even a typical female developmental trajectory includes testosterone - it is produced, albeit at lower levels than in testes, in the ovaries of healthy females of all mammals, as far as I know; it certainly is in humans. Even...

tL;dr: having sex that can potentially result in offspring is neither necessary nor sufficient for "heterosexuality". A man in a monogamous relationship with a post-menopausal woman or a nun who is staying true to her pledge but is sometimes having second thoughts when she sees the priest, never...

I'm not sure you are getting what I'm saying in the following bits. That's almost certainly true when you talk about exclusively same-sex attracted individuals, but for any species, or for any sex within one and the same species, it may or may not true when talking about same-sex attraction...

To which you could not resist...

We weren't discussing dinner, we were discussing evolution. If you asked me which cultures traditionally consume monkeys, I wouldn't include cultures of New Guinea (where humans are the only native primate) with cannibalistic practices. Did I mention that terminologies vary in usefulness...

I said pretty explicitly I'm only speaking for myself. But so are you. I have no idea whether there's a cultural difference between Austria and Yankistan in 2024 in terms of what does or doesn't constitute a definite turn-off for a typical heterosexual male, I've no idea how typical my reaction...

Old habits die hard, and we can't keep track of every special interest group, can we? Maybe that's just me, but it did remind me of things we've heard in this discussion.

I'm pretty poor at reading reindeer minds, I guess they would, though. But when we circle back to humans, I would probably instinctively pay attention to shoulder width and height in a similar fashion when seeing a person from behind, and yet I feel those are more fruitfully described as...

Scramble out how?

I'm sure you know this and are just willing to accept a small inaccuracy for a pun, but other readers may not: getting two dense objects with a small cross-sectional area to smack together in the emptiness of space is surprisingly hard. 99.999999% of the time, they'll circle each other on a...

I refer you to this post, where I lay out why I feel whether something is or isn't a medical condition is context dependent, while whether it is or isn't (spoilers: it always is) real or the product of evolution is absolute. I feel the most controversial part about the proposition that "a male...