I wasn’t saying I was basing my opinions based on that, but that the context that people are coming from—being treated like shit by people on the internet who profess to be using evolutionary psychology but are really using pseudoscientific bullshit to defend the fact that they are misogynist and/or racist asswagons—often is why people have such an emotional reaction to evolutionary psychology when brought up, particularly when it’s brought up in discussions of sex, gender, race, and sexuality. It’s not something against evolutionary psychology as a whole—these people aren’t really even using good science of any kind—but a warning that using the term evolutionary psychology tends to get hackles up. I meant it as a sideline so people getting into discussions of evopsych with feminists know the connotations that evopsych and biological determinism have with a lot of people.
I wasn’t saying I was basing my opinions based on that, but that the context that people are coming from—being treated like shit by people on the internet who profess to be using evolutionary psychology but are really using pseudoscientific bullshit to defend the fact that they are misogynist and/or racist asswagons—often is why people have such an emotional reaction to evolutionary psychology when brought up, particularly when it’s brought up in discussions of sex, gender, race, and sexuality. It’s not something against evolutionary psychology as a whole—these people aren’t really even using good science of any kind—but a warning that using the term evolutionary psychology tends to get hackles up. I meant it as a sideline so people getting into discussions of evopsych with feminists know the connotations that evopsych and biological determinism have with a lot of people.