The DoubtingThomas dating / relationships MEGATHREAD

[_Lemmie]

This is just [DT] misrepresenting research to try and score a rhetorical point, but doing it to people too well-educated for that point to land.

[_honorentheos]

Ephebophilia is legal in some European countries, Brazil, the philippines, and many other countries, but I will never move to those countries. So please stop it with the labels.

DT,

You should know this is disturbing at minimum. And, when combined with pointing out you are using specific, legally ok language ("If I had said,...") with intention on the board?

Yeah. It's pretty screwed up.

[_Jersey Girl]

You are right. I don't want to die.

Then live.

[Guest]

DT,

You should know this is disturbing at minimum. And, when combined with pointing out you are using specific, legally ok language ("If I had said,...") with intention on the board?

Yeah. It's pretty ____ up.

Please put the context. EAllusion was accusing me of ephebophilia because I said 18-22 are generally more attractive. I thought I was making a good point, I was trying to make an argument to show EAllusion that I not into ephebophilia. That is so wrong.
I could delete that comment it if you want.

[_DoubtingThomas]

There is a body of data suggesting some variance between men and women in what they say and/or act as though they are attractive, but these are heavily overlapping distributions and not some fundamental difference between individual men and women. That's abuse of science #1. There is the field of evolutionary psychology that attempts to attribute these variances to sexual dimorphism driven by natural selection, but that field is notorious for being rife with dubious methodology and just-so conclusions. Not that it matters because you're not even trying to summon that field. You're just pointing to an observed difference, which you are already fundamentally misrepresenting, and saying, "evolution predicts this." No it doesn't. I have taken graduate level work in organic evolution and your take on what "evolution" says is too silly to even interact with. At least the evo-psych devotees put some effort into it

Okay I will have to take your word for that and I will have to do more research.

That being unmarried is either itself a risk factor or related to risk factors that predict a higher cardiovascular disease incidence doesn't mean that any suggestion that you should be single - for instance because of your raging misogyny - doesn't mean that people are wishing death on you.

I know, but it is what it is. I am sure the Tobacco industry doesn't want people to die from lung cancer.

It's a risk factor, not a death sentence.

My family has a history of heart disease. I don't want to gamble with the possibility of getting heart disease. Hearth disease scares me more than coronavirus.

Life is full of risks and tradeoffs. Advising a person do something that has some risk associated with it is not ipso facto the equivalent to saying they deserve the risky outcome happening. Air pollution in cities is associated with increased mortality risk. Was Dr. Exiled saying you should die when he offered for you to come to Las Vegas? Of course not. This is just you misrepresenting research to try and score a rhetorical point, but doing it to people too well-educated for that point to land.

By 46%? "Even after taking major cardiovascular risk factors such as age, body fat, smoking, blood pressure, diabetes, and cholesterol into account, married men had a 46% lower rate of death than unmarried men."

[_Jersey Girl]

My family has a history of heart disease. I don't want to gamble with the possibility of getting heart disease. Hearth disease scares me more than coronavirus.

Do you get routine blood labs run to check for signals that lead to heart disease?

[Guest]

"strong overtones of ephebophilia"

You should know this is disturbing at minimum.

What Eallusion said is not disturbing? and are you going to call out those countries?

I honestly don't understand why it is disturbing, but I deleted that comment.

[_DoubtingThomas]

My family has a history of heart disease. I don't want to gamble with the possibility of getting heart disease. Hearth disease scares me more than coronavirus.

Do you get routine blood labs run to check for signals that lead to heart disease?

No, but I did have my physical examination in Feb.

[_Jersey Girl]

Do you get routine blood labs run to check for signals that lead to heart disease?

No, but I did have my physical examination in Feb.

Then you're already gambling with heart disease regardless of whatever your age is.

[_DoubtingThomas]

No, but I did have my physical examination in Feb.

Then you're already gambling with heart disease regardless of whatever your age is.

You have a good point. I do exercise and I try to eat healthy.