Link roundup:

[guardians_song]

Video games do not make vulnerable teens more violent, study says
Do men and women really look for different things in a romantic partner? (...Ehem. Out of curiosity, is this study on males and females in general or HETEROSEXUAL males and females? Inquiring minds...)

By the way, Autostraddle lists Carmilla as a trashy lesbian romance. ...Accurate. :P

Very Good Advice From Bill Watterson, in Comic Strip Form

Someone else liveblogging Hamlet's Father, Part One / Part Two / [no Part Three]

Comments

[lliira]

Re #2: and if it's only heterosexual people, is it about those of us who are strictly unisexual (I go for cismen only and can't imagine wanting to be with anyone else), or with people who are more able to be open?

Also, at least they mention that other studies have contradicted this, but now they're lapping up this one study that goes along with pre-conceived notions as if it's a big deal. I'd say if one study contradicts a bunch of other studies, then there's likely a problem with the one study. And they don't even mention that, if there is a difference (doubt it), it's because men have a much larger share of the economy than women.

[guardians_song]

I'd also like to know if the results would be the same if they controlled for income levels, or for self-confidence levels, etc. It does seem rather suspicious.

(I'd buy that there's a difference - because (some?) women have it hammered into them that they need a Reliable Man, that (if interested in reproduction) they have to think of their future children, etc. etc. etc. But it's not any ~inherent biological instinct~, it's social programming.)