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Posteritatis

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17. There's plenty of reasons to study most things

Reply to TwilightGardener (Reply #13)

Thu Oct 25, 2012, 01:13 PM

Oct 2012

It tends to be the media that carries them to ridiculous conclusions, like this article was striving to do. The Daily Mail's the undisputed champion of doing that, but CNN gives them a run for their money fairly regularly.

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CNN removes story about women’s hormones affecting voting [View all] fleur-de-lisa Oct 2012 OP

because god knows testosterone doesn't affect men at all.... Fresh_Start Oct 2012 #1

+6,866 Angry Dragon Oct 2012 #8

Right. Men have hormones too. Jennicut Oct 2012 #12

Exactly. I'm so effing sick of the one-sidedness of this line of thinking. Arugula Latte Oct 2012 #15

If there are any "natural cycles" we should worry about, it's the weather... joycejnr Oct 2012 #2

Umm, not quite - LibertyLover Oct 2012 #19

That's so ridiculously offensive--I can't believe they posted it. TwilightGardener Oct 2012 #3

Hard to believe that the article was by a woman and the study was commissioned by women. n/t win_in_06 Oct 2012 #9

What's their angle, I wonder--women are too hormonally hysterical TwilightGardener Oct 2012 #13

There's plenty of reasons to study most things Posteritatis Oct 2012 #17

If the article discussed research on male cyclical hormonal fluctuations (they do have them)... antigone382 Oct 2012 #18

CNN being CNN, I can totally believe they posted it. (nt) Posteritatis Oct 2012 #16

right up So-so-bad's alley Supersedeas Oct 2012 #22

jaysus forkin criss!! riverwalker Oct 2012 #4

OFFS... nolabear Oct 2012 #5

"hormones" is the modern version of the misogynist meme of "irrational women". Odin2005 Oct 2012 #6

Well, fiddle dee dee! DawgHouse Oct 2012 #7

Yes, it's amazing we can function at all. nt alsame Oct 2012 #10

I won't worry my pretty little head over who to vote for then. Sivafae Oct 2012 #11

"Unpublished research"??? PatSeg Oct 2012 #14

having read the bio of the study's author, I am not surprised. some of her other studies include niyad Oct 2012 #20

they just are lucky I don't find some Republican to slap MrsBrady Oct 2012 #21