(I figured you were at least somewhere in the South, xlxlxlxl.)
As for being surprised about the 13th century thing, I’m not sure why you are. For most of human history, given the state of human longevity and the lack thereof, the majority of cultures, if not most, married off young children (read: girls) pretty early, quite a few as soon as they reached puberty. Considering that some girls can reach puberty as early as 9 or 10…yeah.
And as for being attracted to 16 year-olds being “pedos”, while…at least somewhat unbecoming and inappropriate a lot of the time, it’s not really pedophilia. This especially when there are states within the U.S. that have the “legal age” for sex being equal to or even lower than that. For instance, I’m pretty sure Delaware is like 14 years-old.
(The rest of this post is being “dedicated” to article responses.)
Uh, you’re only “mad as fuck” because you’re not black.
Actual black people are used to other people, especially other black people, being incredibly shallow. (Also, you realize you didn’t link to the NPR article that you’re supposedly so mad at, correct?)
So please stop being indignant over something that, rather than something that actually matters. You’re “ade as fuck” at people are just being and thus dumb-asses.
Mostly because it doesn’t really say anything we didn’t already know and thus doesn’t really “prove” anything.
Maybe if this is the preliminary for some greater study about visual sex characteristics, then it would be actually useful. Otherwise, with what little is given there, it just seems like another bullshit study that doesn’t actually conclusively explain anything.
Hmmm…considering I’m interested in both history and mathematics, this is indeed quite interesting. I’ll have to read this after I come back.
That said, as it for being a “revolution”, meh. Somethings might change, but of the three things on that graph, only one really changed things (the “minor” one of 1970) since slavery would have ended anyway and anticommunist tensions resurged even worse after WWII ended started in the 1950s with Red Scare II and McCarthyism.
A lot of people getting killed over petty shit does not a revolution make.