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Friday, January 12, 2001

Heard an interesting story last night. Dr. Drew told it on Love Line. It seems that some doctor started thinking about how relationships between men and women has changed so drastically over the last thirty years. Particularly, he wondered why men seem to be getting angrier and more solitary as women get more and more socially and politically powerful. So, being the kind of scientist who tended to believe that all animals, be they human or not, are driven by instinct, and that we are behaviorally infulenced by our genes more than any rational processes, he came to the conclusion that something about the instinctual relationships between men and women must have changed. So, going back to the begining of the feminist movement, he started to look at the major developments that have helped liberate women from traditoinal female roles, and which might have, in the process, had some unintended effect on our subconcious reactions to one another, and finally, he settled on the birth control pill.

So, he took a group of monkeys that had been living in a natural state as a tribe and introduced the pill into the females. He found that the pill's drastic effects on the hormonal make-up of the females made them less receptive to, and less interested in, the sexual advances of the males. As a result, the male monkeys began to behave very irrationally. The flew into unexplainable rages quite often, they sat around masturbating a lot, and in general, the two sexes stopped have anything whatsoever to do with one another.

I don't know if it's true, but it's an interesting story, and it got me thinking. What does everybody else think? Could some of the problems with male rage and the various battles of the sexes be blamed on the pill?
posted by LT2 5:50 PM ET | discuss | link

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This was over five months ago, but I was just wondering if The Pen has seen any evidence yet. I know you guys were close tonight. (Jeez, no power, no water. The whole state is a damn parasite!)
posted by MES 11:46 PM ET | discuss | link

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Well, Oscar season is almost upon us. Head on over to Brooke's Oscar contest site if yer interested in joining up this year. I've already posted the first piece of trash talk on the discussion board.
posted by LT2 2:15 PM ET | discuss | link

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Awwwww!
posted by MES 11:05 PM ET | discuss | link

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So, I'm hiking down to my car this afternoon and I wind up in the elevator with a very attractive blonde who looks really familiar to me. We were just kinda chatting as we waited and as we got to her floor, she said "Do you know so-and-so in so-and-so's office?" and I said yes, that I did. She said "Would you tell her that Amaya said hi?" I said "Amaya?" and she said "yes, Amaya." I said "sure thing", she thanked me, and got off the elevator. So later, as I'm driving through town, it's really nagging at me. A very familiar looking blonde named Amaya. Hmmm, I could feel my brain experiencing that weird sensation that I can only compare to sorting through files, until finally, I figured it out. She was on The Real World (Hawaii, I was later informed when I called so-and-so to tell her she said "hi") I love this business.
posted by LT2 7:02 PM ET | discuss | link

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