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The Independent reports:
Psychologist and professor emeritus at Stanford University Phillip Zimbardo (who led the team of researchers who conducted the Stanford Prison Experiment) has made the warnings, which form a major part of his latest book, Man (Dis)Connected.
Zimbardo says (in this TED talk) there is a "crisis" amongst young men, a high number of whom are experiencing a "new form of addiction" to excessive use of pornography and video games. Citing the research he and his team conducted for the book, he says: "It begins to change brain function. It begins to change the reward centre of the brain, and produces a kind of excitement and addiction."
An article from Psychology Today, however, argues that there are no demonstrable scientific links between porn consumption and the disputed phenomenon called 'Porn-Induced Erectile Dysfunction.'
Could this problem be manifesting itself as the rise of the Hikikomori?
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday May 12 2015, @08:45AM
I'm 51. 25 year old women pale in comparison to the feminism of women my age.
You are threatened by feminism; I am not. I'm completely cool with voting for female elected representatives, working for and with women, having women friends that I don't have sex with.
Go take a woman's studies class, you might learn something.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by K_benzoate on Tuesday May 12 2015, @05:58PM
You are threatened by feminism; I am not.
Maybe you should be. [google.com]
Climate change is real and primarily caused by human activity.
(Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Tuesday May 12 2015, @06:18PM
You are threatened by feminism; I am not.
Maybe you should be.
Seriously? [thewire.com]
(Score: 2) by K_benzoate on Tuesday May 12 2015, @11:01PM
Just so we're clear, modern feminism is now at the point where its sympathizers have to spend time justifying genocidal language. They've come a long way since Susan B. Anthony. People who talk like that ("kill all men" et al) are disgusting. People who defend them are casuists.
Her entire justification is based on a lie; a worldview crafted to make women feel like paranoid, helpless, children. There are no wide-spread systemic injustices perpetrated by men against women. It's a fiction. It's a myth perpetuated by identity-politicians and gender-ideologues. Women have every legal right that men have, and many privileges that men do not. Thus this campaign is not a playful barb by a downtrodden oppressed class against their oppressor. It is the moral, and logical equivalent of "kill all women" and is equally deranged and deplorable.
Climate change is real and primarily caused by human activity.
(Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Wednesday May 13 2015, @05:45PM
Is this any different at all from all the misogynist whining and worse that goes on whenever a woman makes a statement or stands up for herself? Or is that just boys being boys?
(Score: 2) by K_benzoate on Wednesday May 13 2015, @06:24PM
all the misogynist whining and worse that goes on whenever a woman makes a statement or stands up for herself?
[Citation needed]. Men are expected to be able to back up their words with reasoning and evidence too. But when men have the temerity to ask the same of women, it's misogyny. I call it equality. Feminists want it both ways. Sorry, I'm not going to just "listen and believe."
Climate change is real and primarily caused by human activity.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday May 13 2015, @12:16AM
we were all UCSC students. Sometimes she could get on my nerves but for the most part I blew her off.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]