Crime:
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[C2] While I don’t worry so much that police will target parents who change diapers, I do worry that this is a convenient charge – or more likely a threat of a charge in service of a plea bargain – for someone they want to arrest for other reasons.
[C3] I… yeep.
[C4] Nerdiest bandit ever.
[C5] Be careful what you write in prison, because they might not let you read it.
Family:
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[Fm2] David Lapp writes on the legacy of divorce.
[Fm3] Laurie DeRose writes of the increasing costs of cohabitation. Alysse Elhace explains why she’s not going to.
[Fm4] Should we be doing more in the way of paternity testing?
[Fm5] Mail order brides are still a thing.
[Fm6] Ahhh, the wisdom of fathers. Or parents more generally. It’s really kind of frustrating to grow up and realize how right they were and wrong you were.
Gender:
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[G2] Is excessive regulation of daycare hurting women in the workplace?
[G3] Amanda Kolson Hurley says it’s okay for women to take their spouse’s name.
[G4] It’s not too surprising that people respond different between cleavage and public breastfeeding, but the attitude towards the latter is disappointing.
[G5] Women and Children First is something of a myth. The Titanic, however, remains the noble exception.
Dating:
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[D2] Tyler Cowen reports that assortive mating is on the rise, returning to Gilded Age levels, and that it’s contributing to inequality. Notably, though, it peaked in 1980 before falling and only recently has starting inching back up.
[D3] If you think that alpha males and hypergamy are a problem today, it was way worse 8,000 years ago.
[D4] How being nice can sabotage your dating life.
[D5] Vice looks at the dating scene of Asian Men and Black Women.
Healthcare:
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[H2] Britt Berrett takes aim at freestanding emergency rooms.
[H3] If these policies had been in place at the outset, I’d likely still be smoking. {More}
[H4] Women in the US are twice as likely as Canadians to die from pregnancy and childbirth.
[H5] I’ve linkied some bad news regarding the adoption of EMR, but here is some good news.
[H6] Gah!
Fashion:
[Fn1] Heeled shoes were intended to be an instrument of war, so how did they end up on women’s feet?
[Fn2] Anne Ishi looks at the enduring influence of Japan on American fashion.
[Fn3] Samuel Hammond writes a spirited defense of status competitions.
[Fn4] An interesting look at the relationship between tuberculosis and Victorian fashion.
[Fn5] Rebecca Willis argues that we’re wearing too many words.
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C1: Many Americans believe in law and order and do not like the idea of criminals go free. The Ankh-Morpork theory of justice is popular in the United States. “If they have you, you must be guilty of something and if you did what your actually accused of than that is just a lucky coincidence.” This is why Americans do not like funding public defenders.
C2: This seems like a bad idea and your fears are well-justified.
C3: When I was in law school, my legal ethics professor told us a story about her time in private practice as a matrimonial lawyer. She said that one of the fellow associates in her firm had a practice of having sex with women getting divorced and justified it on the grounds that it would boast their confidence. This was before it was decided to be unethical to sleep with your clients. The hypnosis thing just takes it to another level.
Fm5: I see a new products line for Amazon.
G1: There are liberals who like to maintain that all sex differences beyond the biological are purely cultural in nature but also passionately defend transgender rights. This makes no sense whatsoever. There have to be at least some innate and non-culturally caused sex differences for transgenderism to be thing.
D2, D3: There is a theory that the old Europeans adopted monogamy as a relatively easy way to get men to fight for country. It turned out that people are more willing to be soldiers when they have a stake in society and that a spouse and kids are about the easiest sort of stake you could give them during Antiquity. Monogamous societies always tended to outperform polygamous ones.
D2: I’m still unconvinced about assertive mating being less common at certain points of history or if there is anything that could be done about it besides encouraging wealthy intelligent people to marry Trophy spouses with good lucks but low levels of wealth and education.
D5: This is the only Interracial couple I haven’t seen in real life yet.
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