Comments on: Platonic Friendships Between the Sexes Are Impossible http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/10/platonic-friendships-between-the-sexes-are-impossible/ Keeping You Current Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:46:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: njs http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/10/platonic-friendships-between-the-sexes-are-impossible/comment-page-1/#comment-1760 njs Mon, 12 Nov 2012 20:13:22 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/?p=6130#comment-1760 Responsible journalists should include links to the actual research in their stories. Neither you or Ward do this - how can we, the readers, verify this story? Responsible journalists should include links to the actual research in their stories. Neither you or Ward do this – how can we, the readers, verify this story?

]]> By: YourBoyfriendsBestGirlfriend.com http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/10/platonic-friendships-between-the-sexes-are-impossible/comment-page-1/#comment-1497 YourBoyfriendsBestGirlfriend.com Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:56:09 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/?p=6130#comment-1497 Strangely a study of 176 people is the final say? Not just 176 people, but young people who have not yet developed the part of their brains that aid in judgment? Interesting... Strangely a study of 176 people is the final say? Not just 176 people, but young people who have not yet developed the part of their brains that aid in judgment?

Interesting…

]]> By: Em http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/10/platonic-friendships-between-the-sexes-are-impossible/comment-page-1/#comment-1483 Em Wed, 24 Oct 2012 17:23:07 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/?p=6130#comment-1483 I hate being right when I'm being cynical and misanthropic, but I predicted this topic would reassert itself when "women's issues" started to dominate the election cycle. Basically what this study, and the numerous ones that have existed before reflect is a desire to perpetuate a deep seated anxiety about women in the workplace on the part of a certain group of men. It most often rears it't head in a recession when women are competing with men for fewer jobs, and pay rates are falling. The same old assumtions are repeated here about "men's attitudes" as opposed "women's attitudes." It looks no deeper than it's own intention of furthering division between men and women in the workplace, which works extremely well from the employers perspective, when he is trying to divide and rule. it's an incidious, deceptive piece with only a tenuous grip on valid scientific analysis, and makes some extremely sexist and offensive assumptions about men. It is unworthy of this magazine. I hate being right when I’m being cynical and misanthropic, but I predicted this topic would reassert itself when “women’s issues” started to dominate the election cycle. Basically what this study, and the numerous ones that have existed before reflect is a desire to perpetuate a deep seated anxiety about women in the workplace on the part of a certain group of men. It most often rears it’t head in a recession when women are competing with men for fewer jobs, and pay rates are falling. The same old assumtions are repeated here about “men’s attitudes” as opposed “women’s attitudes.” It looks no deeper than it’s own intention of furthering division between men and women in the workplace, which works extremely well from the employers perspective, when he is trying to divide and rule. it’s an incidious, deceptive piece with only a tenuous grip on valid scientific analysis, and makes some extremely sexist and offensive assumptions about men. It is unworthy of this magazine.

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