Pregnancy Alters Woman's Brains 'For At Least Two Years' (bbc.com) 280
EzInKy writes: The BBC and others are reporting the results of a study that women's brains do in fact change during pregnancy. BBC reports: "Pregnancy reduces grey matter in specific parts of a woman's brain, helping her bond with her baby and prepare for the demands of motherhood. Scans of 25 first-time mums showed these structural brain changes lasted for at least two years after giving birth. European researchers said the scale of brain changes during pregnancy were akin to those seen during adolescence. But they found no evidence of women's memory deteriorating. This study, from researchers at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and Leiden University and published in Nature Neuroscience, looked at the brain scans of women before they became pregnant, soon after they gave birth, and two years later, to see how the brain changed. And they compared these women's brains with those of 19 first-time fathers, 17 men without children and 20 women who had never given birth. The researchers found 'substantial' reductions in the volume of grey matter in the brains of first-time mothers. The grey matter changes occurred in areas of the brain involved in social interactions used for attributing thoughts and feelings to other people -- known as 'theory-of-mind' tasks. The researchers thought this would give new mothers an advantage in various ways - help them recognize the needs of their child, be more aware of potential social threats and become more attached to their baby." Thanks Mom! As for first-time fathers, the researchers found no changes in their grey matter.
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A) This doesn't prove that there is a difference, because the male brain was not subjected to the same stimulus (9 months of pregnancy, childbirth, feeding the child etc.)
B) Feminists don't claim that there is no difference between the male and female brains, just that in most cases where the differences are claimed to matter, they really don't.
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It was "so much for that" as soon as that idea started..... We already know from existing research into genetics that people of Male and Female genders have different chromosomes. Also, we can plainly observe different physical body characteristics.
Aafter such obvious visible differences and differences over thousands of years of culture ----
the Burden of Proof has always been on those who would claim a greater similarity or lack of difference to demonstrate that,
AND regarding "Gender is a superficial
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Does that mean the male brain is superior, being an evolved version of the female brain with more bits acting in concert to handle more-demanding intellectual problems; or that it is inferior, being a hobbled version with bits weakened and disconnected so as to interfere with cognition?
Trigger warning - I'm replying about the story instead of the predictable direction the comments went.
It isn't a matter of superior or inferior. A pregnant woman goes through a fair number of biological adjustments, and it isn't too surprising that some of them are in the brain. And a lot of men can attest to their wife becoming a rather different person after childbirth. While this may or may not present a problem for the male isn't totally relevant, as the changes are related to survival of the child on the mother's part.
I suspect that these changes are more permanent than lasting only a couple years.
But as to being superior or inferior, it isn't that. This goes a long way toward explaining some personality changes, and might even be tied into the unfortunate post-partum depression that affects some women.
Mental superiority by gender is one of those ridiculous concepts just like racial superiority by some IQ test. Because even if it were somehow true, nothing could ever be determined about any individual's intelligence by looking at them and judging the intelligence by the person being male or female, light or dark skinned.
And I don't even know how to address the weird transgender bender the discussion went on, so I'll leave it at that.
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Because even if it were somehow true, nothing could ever be determined about any individual's intelligence by looking at them and judging the intelligence by the person being male or female, light or dark skinned.
Yes but the fundamental problem with that argument is this. Unless you possess the capability to reliably and efficiently assess individuals, than if there are real general trends toward superiority among groups, that it would absolutely make sense to discriminate based on those characteristics in cases where more deterministic data isn't available.
So what you are saying is that you can definitely and without mistake, choose the best candidate for a job by gender of skin color.
Sorry, thanks for playing. You have bought into the old political argument that you can make the porest stupidest white man feel as if he is superior to any and all Black people. It works, because the poor stupid white man cannot see that he is stupid, and if a person can tell him that he is superior to all blacks, then he will not only vote against his self interests, but h
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Does that mean the male brain is superior
No. It does not.
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Money did not do the surgery in this case. The penis had to be removed after a botched bris.
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It's cool to be this angry about gender. Really fucking cool. lol... "feminazi".
You're a fucking spastic mate. I hope trannies and feminists keep you angry a long, long time.
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It's cool to be this angry about gender. Really fucking cool.
Isn't it odd? One thing is for certain - these folks spend more time thinking about Chicks with Dicks or whatever they call the female/male version of that than chicks with dicks do.
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So, instead of refuting the claim, you go and make fun of them for what they are. Take a long slow look in the mirror, and realize that you are indeed the hypocrite. Why don't you accept them as they are, after all, you expect them to do the same for your views. ;)
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Funny, others would say it's a body disorder.
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Persistent transgenderism is a dysphoria/mental anomaly because the body is healthy and contains the sex selected by chromosomes, except in rare cases of abnormal chromosomes, the body is a perfectly healthy body of the sex that the brain developed not wanting to have: the body just doesn't appeal to what the mind came to believe or desire; it's possible an abnormal development caused the mind to develop believing or yearning for something else.
It is just like being born with blond hair and blue eyes
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Coming to terms with who you actually are is a sign of maturity.
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There's been numerous studies showing that people suffering depression tend to be better at various forms of contingency rating then non-depressed people. Rather than a sign of being immature, it's a sign of being realistic. Happiness depends on being delusional.
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Tnansgenderism is a mental disorder, probably rooted in depression. It was recognized as such by the DSM up until 5 minutes ago. Transgenders, even post-op and after hormones therapy, still have a 20x higher suicide rate than normal population.
No, come on, don't sit on the fence like that, let us know what you really think.
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Gender does not refer to self identity, that is a construct developed by supporters of transgender. Gender is analogous to sex which is encoded into DNA
No, it's not. Sex is the biologically determined aspect of masculinity vs femininity; whether you possess certain organs, what your hormone levels are, and how your body develops. Gender is the socitial expectation for masculinity vs femininity; what jobs you're supposed to have, how you're supposed to dress, and in some cultures, how you speak. For example, we've always had males and females, and males have always had deeper voices; but only 100 years ago, pink was masculine and blue was feminine. Thus, even if you wore a blue shirt as a male in 1900, you'd still be a male by sex; but not very masculine by gender.
And no, these concepts have been around for literally thousands of years. Until the extremo Christians of the middle ages entered, it was actually really normal for people to flirt with the gender lines; read some Roman or Greek poetry. I would love to see your reaction to the Roman emperor Nero's (biologically male) wife, or the widespread act of guys who had open and accepted affairs with other guys (while being both straight and married to women).
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And who gives a shit about their opinion?
Just look at the whole "the sky is falling" bull around violent video games and how they're the root of all evil and the cause for all school revenges, sorry, killing sprees. And? Does that mean that FPS don't get made anymore?
Please. Let them rant, as long as they do they at least don't harm anyone.
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Please. Let them rant, as long as they do they at least don't harm anyone.
Yeah, not in the least. We saw jackasses like Jack Thompson get some sway with the trendy fucks in the industry last time. We're seeing it again with Sarkeesian and her ilk, and the trendy fucks in the industry again. This is [gamesindustry.biz] the garbage that eventually gets spawned out of it. Gamers on the other hand? They don't like identity politics being pushed into their medium. [heatst.com] Just a FYI to anyone who's' reading, the stuff being pushed in the GI.biz article is the same BS that was pushed by people like Leigh
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Jack Thompson ("Based Jack") became a favorite of gamergators. Have you forgotten your GG canon already?
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Jack Thompson ("Based Jack") became a favorite of gamergators. Have you forgotten your GG canon already?
Sorry, but "reality" doesn't fit with what actually happened. [reddit.com] Guess that's what happens when you're so deep in your ideology that you believe everything is "us or them." Would you like to invent some more bullshit, or concede that you enjoy your fake news so much that you'd enjoy more of it?
Then again, considering your comments on fake news in the past. I guess that now makes you a gamergate supporter, especially with all the fake news that the media has pushed over the last 2 years.
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What a strange world you live in, where the games industry agreed with Jack Thompson. As I recall the main reaction was to spoof him in a number of games and increase the violence levels with ever more realistic graphics.
As for Sarkeesian, did you know she isn't actually against violence in games? You don't actually seem to have watched any of her videos, so I guess not. Anyway, Tropes vs Women seems to have been somewhat influential. Quite a few AAA games this year have had much better portrayals of women,
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Mashiki, the link you provided to an archive of the Feminist Frequency web site (unnecessary as the page has not been deleted) doesn't say anything about banning games. You just assume everyone who disagrees with you wants to ban you. It's a weird delusion you have.
Have you watched "Lingerie is not Armour"? Sarkeesian specifically praises Chun Li as an example of a female character who is is involved in violence but has agency and isn't just a cheap victim used to add colour to the game. Chun Li is the equa
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Well except that we have 20+ years with huge sample sizes(including several that had 10k+ participants), showing no statistical change in belief, action, desire, or anything else. The most that one study has shown is that there was a "short" term change on perception of devaluing a life -- as in under 30 minutes. Then again, going by your reasoning -- society is sexist because it values women more then men as a "valuable" asset to society itself.
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I see. So your argument is, more or less, that advertising doesn't sway people despite all the studies that say it does?
Feminazis going after thought-criminals (Score:5, Informative)
An otherwise perfectly qualified man has lost his job of running Harvard University for merely suggesting, men and women could be different in some respects [boston.com]:
Even closer to the point in TFA, this year Donald Trump was widely denounced for stating (back in 2004), that an employee's pregnancy is an inconvenience for the employer. Hillary Clinton, portraying herself as a pillar of feminism (pay no attention to her husband's sexual predations), chose to use that obvious and unremarkable true statement to attack her opponent.
You may think, no one "gives a shit", but her billion-dollar campaign [washingtonpost.com] did enough research to believe, there is enough of an audience, who'll defecate bricks over it. And they did...
Nobody intends to stop "faminazis" from exercising their First Amendment rights. We are just pointing out, their rants are wrong.
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And whoever those people are, they have zero to do with this article. Im also pretty sure, that if I would to look up wtf you are talking about, Ill find a lot of misogyny, and perhaps a few loud mouthed females with (for you) radical ideas. Not "feminazi's".
I for one, welcome our new load mouthed females. Perhaps they will counter weigh the foul mouthed males.
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The problem is that said "toxic brand of feminism" is the one being supported by people, promoted by those loud mouths. The same one that's being pushed to create new rules, laws and so on. And it's those same people who are pushing it, that are at the forefront of outrage campaigns against people who dare to tell a off-colour joke. There's a reason why less then 15% of women identify as feminists these days, and feminists much like the DNC haven't figured out why people are deriding them or their views.
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Why bring Milo Yiannopoulos into this?
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Thought you were talking about Anita Sarkeesian. You know much like how she claimed that "gamergaters threatened her speaking engagement in Colorado." Except of course, that the threat was so full of BS [twitter.com], that no wonder the FBI said it wasn't credible. The only thing missing from that threat was a navy seal with 300 confirmed kills. [knowyourmeme.com]
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Anita Sarkeesian
Dude you are way too obsessed with her. I think you have a crush.
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Dude you are way too obsessed with her. I think you have a crush.
Oh, I see. One shouldn't point out that a shitty person, being a shitty person and lying, should be brought to the forefront right?
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Nice flamebait. First of all, there are no Feminazi's
No? [metronews.ca] You should let them know this. [knowyourmeme.com] They exist, some of them are such shitty people that they've made it to meme status like big red there.
That derogatory term is mostly used by male chauvinists who want to enforce old fashioned gender -roles-. There are feminists, and they hold various ideas about equality.
You mean like the feminists out there that push that women should have nice cushy jobs in offices because "equality" while they don't push them into the nice shitty jobs where you're likely to be killed? You know, fishing, mining and so on. Or those nice shitty well paying jobs that are simply shitty jobs?
Strange that I remember the big feminist push in the late 80's
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In Israel there was an interesting case a few years ago. An adult woman called Riki Ovadia had invited 10-13 year olds to her apartment to have sex, repeatedly. Feminists actually insisted that the kids "took advantage" of her.
That's been the case for defense in several high-profile female rapist cases in the US over the last couple of years. Then there's the absolute bat shit insanity that you see which spawns groups like Megalia [koreaexpose.com] which violently attack people who refuse to fall in line. Yes kids, that is a feminist group. Best descriptor? Take feminism, add a dash of antifa, heavy sprinkling of racism and racial superiority, with a dose of insanity. Other things include planned attack against men in cafe's using antifreeze(
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Hey, you can't rape the willing...lol.
I see these young, GOOD looking teachers on the news lately, beautiful ladies teaching high school and sleeping with their male students.
I keep wondering "Where they hell were these when "I" was in High School?!?!?"
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Come back when the average earnings for equal jobs are equal for women and men.
They are equal. There's even laws that ensure it. If a man is working in an office tapping away at a keyboard, and a women is doing exactly the same job. If those two same people are working in a mine busting rocks and transporting them around, they're also being paid the same.
Now, lets toss in that women take more time off then men for sickness. So we'll see a drop in wages. Now, they'll also take time off for pregnancy, and we'll see a drop. Now let's consider that a man will be more likely to take
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Now, they'll also take time off for pregnancy, and we'll see a drop. Now let's consider that a man will be more likely to take OT, or work longer hours.
I mean, that is kind of the point right? Someone has to have babies, or else we are all going to be in trouble. The fact that women get penalized for it is exactly the problem. Someone has to cook, clean and take care of children. That it is societally imposed mostly on women is the problem.
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The fact that women get penalized for it is exactly the problem.
Really? Guess that's why in most western countries if you take maternity leave you get more money then say if you were injured on the job. And if it's a crippling injury, you might spend the next 20 years fighting for it, never get it, and die in poverty if you're lucky. The worst case, you'll simply commit suicide because it's hopeless. Oh, and if you're a father and want said maternity leave too? After all, it's unfair to burden a single person with all the right? So If you're lucky, really lucky a
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And the trees are all kept equal, by hatchet, ax, and saw.
And if you have actual proof of wrongdoing, then you've got a case to take before the labor board don't you? I mean it's not like the vast majority of the cases show that the claims are fake, attempts at revenge, and so on. Seems that there are far too many people who believe that they should get paid for work that they didn't do.
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20%-40% of women are rapists? Wow. Nutter detected. I get it, you hate women, but you are a nutjob.
Couldn't read huh? That's okay I'll use small words so you get it. The "total" incidence count by country is that women make up around 8-10%. Some countries are as high as 15% -- though some studies show that the count could be as high as 30% of rapists are female -- this is because of positive weighting for women by societies in general. Now we break down into particular predispositions for those assaults, and find that there's a different number. Kind of like this: M:F is a predominantly male crime,
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Most feminists see the fact that some people feel like they have been born in the wrong sexe, and therefore identify themselves as a different gender.
I'm a lesbian trapped in a man's body.....
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This is a feminazi.
This is an incoming President of the United States
Which asshole has more power to affect your world?
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Whaaaaaat?!?!? (Score:2)
You extrapolate behavior which men exhibit towards other men to women?!?!? You think that the "initiation rites" that every male group [on the playground, in the office, in the football club, the motor gang, the army ect.] does on new members of said group are also applied to women?
What ARE you smoking? I want some of it.....
43 years I am on this planet and I still wait to see examples of "rampant" men bulling/harassing/rejecting/demeaning/abusing women around me. Never happened - primary school, secondary
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the social role of "gender police" - that is, reminding women what their place should be, and hurting them if they do not comply.
Since leaving school, I've been assaulted multiple times by women, just once by a man. I've been sexually assaulted by a woman, never a man. I've been bullied by both sexes. I've been falsely accused of sexual assault by a woman, never by a man.
Just who the fuck are the gender police because they don't seem to be having any fucking effect here.
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All the moms around here call it "baby brain." The memory thing that most moms (and dads) experience just has to be sleep deprivation. When I did basic training they cut us back to 5 hours of sleep a night for weeks, but that was to show us that we could still function on that little sleep. When I became a father, I was getting two sessions of about 2 to 2.5 hours of sleep per night, for months. The latter was definitely much worse and affects everything - mood, work, and relationships. The mom also has (a) many more social pressures to be the "perfect" mom - (thanks Facebook), (b) tons of weird hormone changes going on, (c) physical trauma from the birth, (d) a weird combination of stress and mind numbing boredom, and (e) whatever this "baby brain" thing is. It absolutely sucks for her (and sometimes seems to manifest as anger), so she's going to take all that shit out on someone, and as the father you're the only one that's handy, so you get to grin and bear it. Over the course of several years things do improve a lot. It never goes back to the way things were though - sometimes too many things get said, too much animosity and frustration build up. People can hold grudges for a long time.
Nobody can really be prepared for being a parent. Even if you're told all the stuff to expect, it doesn't sink in until you're actually in the situation, and at that point there's nothing you can do but take a deep breath and do your best.
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It absolutely sucks for her (and sometimes seems to manifest as anger), so she's going to take all that shit out on someone, and as the father you're the only one that's handy, so you get to grin and bear it.
Although this happens a lot, I'm very reluctant to call it normal.
If you love your partner, you don't take out your shit on him/her. When you get angry, you storm off and meditate a bit on it. There's this crazy notion that "someone has to bear the brunt of it". But well-balanced, emotionally developed adults know better.
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But he was talking about women...ZING
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But well-balanced, emotionally developed adults know better.
That's why in policing, some of the new policies include stuff like "women primarily abuse through emotional and psychological abuse" while "men primarily abuse through physical abuse." In countries which have put "emotional abuse is domestic violence" you can be sure that you're going to see an uptick in women being arrested, charged and detained. Get's more interesting when you see the crime stat survey's and start reading Gazette or Juristat and it shows that in cases of emotional abuse nearly 90% of t
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"But well-balanced, emotionally developed adults know better."
Two things - first, in our case we're both professionals and used to being good communicators under pressure, and we both *sometimes* get to the point where we say something we regret (or should regret). It's a lot of stress. Secondly, the whole point of this story is that this kind of stuff messes with you, and even messes with your brain. Having kids may make you less of an "emotionally developed adult." Knowing better is different from a
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Once again very late to this party but as a father of 2.5 year old twins who also had a major case of ulcerative colitis right when they were born I can only totally agree with you.
I'd say the lack of sleep isn't even the major problem. You still function. However, the constant attention you pay them. Every little sound you hear. You never wind down. Your brain rests even less than your body.
And when they scream in tandem or take shifts (and I am unable to decide which is worse!), your mental walls, your ability to restrain your emotions and function is severely tested.
But worst of all? Children mirror you! Meaning you can't even distance yourself and go into zombie mode because that will really unhinge them and scream in a futile attempt to get their caregivers back instead of having zombies.
It's a very vicious cycle. The only thing that saved as was honest conversation and admitting that we were in way over our heads, our fears and yes, even the regular fantasies of repeatedly throwing the kids against the nearest wall.
Explaining raising children to childless people (and making them understand) is like explaining colors to a person born blind. It cannot be done.
We had expected the work. It didn't faze us. We had expected the dirt, broken things and such. We were unprepared for the emotional, psychological warfare going on. Some of the shit parent sgo through is what makes Amnesty criticize Guantanamo! Only we chose this for ourselves! Can you imagine the regret?
And the dichotomy.... Dude, the dichotomy kills you. While I would have gladly taken the opportunity a year ago to be transported back in time, before we had kids, not remember a thing but with the guarantee that we'd decide on not having them in the first place, I would have taken it in an instant. In contrast, had someone offered to just take them away so we could have our freedom back, I would have declined.
As strange as it sounds, that is what being parents is all about. You ask yourself why you were ever stupid enough to do this thing but just stopping isn't an option either.
One thing that has changed in a remarkable way is how I look at parents who break and do something drastic. A few months back a woman threw her kids out of a window from the tsecond or third floor. Kids survived without permanent damage.
Before I had kids, I would have condemned the behaviour to the utmost. Now I just pity the parents. They were in a war for their sanity and lost a major battle. The moment they get a chance to reflect on it, I can only imagine the guilt and pain they must feel from the realization what they have done.
A lot of people could do better as parents. However fuck me if it ain't the hardest job with the least possibility to prepare yourself for that I have ever encountered...
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Reminds me of a study they did some years ago.
When asked directly, parents would claim they derived much joy and happiness from their kids.
But when asked those same parents indirectly, with some clever questions, the researchers found that the parents weren't nearly as happy as they claimed they were. Their kids caused them all kinds of stress and unhappiness.
They concluded that those parents weren't necessarily lying during the questions, but that humans probably evolved a sort of delusional condition, so that they would believe kids made them happy, and so they kept procreating. Those that didn't have these delusions, obviously didn't have as much offspring, so there was a strong selection for the condition.
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It makes sense that humans would evolve a way to delude themselves about kids, otherwise as their intelligence developed they would also be less included to have any, and thus less likely to pass their genes on... And now that we have subverted evolution with universal high quality education, we see in the west that birth rates are indeed falling.
I'd say it's not just kids either. My cat is pain in the arse most of the time, but somehow I'm convinced he makes me happy
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Don't get me wrong, my son frustrates the shit out of me sometimes. He got a double dose of stubbornness from his parents and knows how to use it. However, he also brings the most joy to my life. I do not laugh as much with anyone else as I do with him. Most evenings, my head hurts from laughing so much. Watching him grow up, discover new things, hearing him start to use his mother's native language more fre
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I'd never be prepared for being a parent. Nothing would change about me; there'd just be some more annoying shit around me.
If the damned thing would wander into the street and die when it was 3 or 4 years old, that would be a great relief. Not that I wouldn't take steps to prevent it; just that if it happened--and unfortunately I'm very good at identifying and mitigating risks, so it probably wouldn't--my first sentiment would be, "Oh, good," followed by a facepalm at all the annoying bullshit everybod
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>> I've simply determined to not allow that to happen.
Thank you. If more people who would be absolutely terrible parents had your sense to self-regulate, the world would be a MUCH better place.
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I think the problem is people take parenting as a personal thing, and so can't accept that they're wrong. If people would learn to see parenting as an engineering challenge, they'd have more success in creating better-adjusted offspring, and their offspring would be less-annoying and more-successful.
Instead of parenting in a way which is best for society and for their children, people parent in a way which is best for their ego and self-image.
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Does this super intelligent sci-fi woman have multiple baby brains?
What are you actually talking about?
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I guess you missed out on a few trends. High rates of divorce and relationship breakup, cesareans done for cosmetic purposes (avoid stretch marks, varicose veins, etc.), high rates of cheating in relationships (and if you believe all those women on Ashley Madison were real, well, I'm not going to pop your bubble ...) ...
And getting back into shape to be in the meat market is something both sexes do.
Bad news, guys (Score:2)
My oldest's 17th birthday is today - I promise you this lasts at least 17 years. Ugh.
I think grandkids cause their brain to just melt or something.
By the way, for the old-timers - the 17 year old was 5 days old when we saved Hotmail.
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Saved Hotmail? I'd be embarrassed to attach my name to that POS. Even today, they follow their own standards and muck with mail to break DKIM.
My, how /. has changed.
We saved Hotmail because it was Christmas Day 1999 and that was the primary free email service at the time. We had soldiers overseas who had nothing else to communicate with their families at home.
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Nope, still not onside.
There were alternatives even back then. Hotmail was never the right answer.
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Perhaps not driving, but it actually does explain certain changes in thought processes after having kids. I've noticed that some women become hyper-protective after having kids, with an exaggerated fear of every theoretical danger. Of course, humans are not particularly good at understanding probability to begin with, so I always assumed that this perception was just confirmation bias on my part, or at most was the result of social conditioning (being around other hyper-protective people making people hy
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tl;dr - This totally explains "Won't someone think of the children?!?!?!"
Force researchers to keep abreast of their field (Score:2, Interesting)
It's been shown the gay men's brain activity change when they become parents, matching in some ways changes in mothers' brains, and they definitely don't go through a pregnancy.
The researchers could have compared to brains of women who got babies via a surrogate mother, which would have been more interesting, but they chose instead to compare to groups which obviously won't have relevant changes.
Also, they looked at scans only before and after the pregnancy, which makes this research quite useless in determ
Men and grey matter (Score:2)
"As for first-time fathers, the researchers found no changes in their grey matter."
Because men lose grey matter on first hooking up with the woman.
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"Ooooh, yess, YuCuddlyWubblyLiddlThing ..."
Sound pretty brain-altered to me. :-))
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Wow, mommy so proud. Keep it up, honey.
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The mothers go batshit crazy...not necessarily in a bad or good way, just a giant deviation for the person you married.
Sometimes that sticks, too.
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Yea, no those things have to eat every hour when they first come out and freak out when mom isn't around. The only way they get any normalcy back is through a great support structure, which comes from having a partner that doesn't make the kind of dumbass assumptions mentioned here..
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No shit... Either this comment was made by a childless douchebag or he's in the running for world's shittiest baby daddy. That being said, after pushing out two for me, my wife did start exercising while I took care of my boys. Now she looks amazing, weighs less than before the kiddos, and I get lots of loving.
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Slashdot never fails to deliver.
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Slashdot never fails to deliver.
This is not the misogyny you're looking for
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Re:Marxist BRAINFUCK (Score:5, Insightful)
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Henceforth, I want to racially identify myself as "off-white" to allow others to separate me from the "alt-right."
Power to the beige people!
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Rather than make a new comment elsewhere, particularly with all of the vitriol being spewed on this thread, I'll also add that pregnancy hormones really, really suck as someone with an engineer's brain. Imagine that you suddenly burst into tears for relatively minor things being wrong, or occasionally for NO REAL REASON. It's horrible.
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Heh yes! I remember converstations which went:
Me: "What's wrong?"
Her: "Nothing."
Me: "Then why are you crying?"
Her: "I DON'T KNOW"
I remember being totally bewildered by these types of conversation, the sudden mood changes and, what seemed to me to be changes in basic character. I also remember being in awe by how much hormones can affect a person's personality and even being somewhat afraid that her personality would be changed forever from the person I'd married. Thankfully, it wasn't.
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Imagine that you suddenly burst into tears for relatively minor things being wrong, or occasionally for NO REAL REASON. It's horrible.
Try undiagnosed Aspergers - or if that's not enough, combine it with depression.
There may actually be reasons but they're utterly unknowable. You're right, it is horrible.
At least pregnancy can be cured :(