Thursday, June 18, 2015

Thursday roundup

Jelani Cobb on Charleston. And an older Rebecca Traister piece for historical context. Also: this would be a great time to take down that flag.

MRSA, brought to you by animal agriculture.

Blow on Dolezal.

Men are doing their own body-policing (as women have done for ages):
But who is doing the fetishising? Not women. In 2000, The American Journal of Psychiatry published a telling experiment led by Pope at Harvard. College-aged men in Austria, France and the US were asked to choose both their ideal male body and the body they believed women preferred. In all three countries, men picked an ideal on average 28 lb (12.7 kg) more muscular than their own – and they believed that women wanted a male body 30 lb (13.6 kg) more muscular. The men consistently overestimated the appeal of brawn, while women, when asked, preferred an ‘ordinary’ body without the added muscle.

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