You know, I was prepared to be all offended and upset by it but mostly I’m just bemused. After googleing it (I didn’t bother reading the original article), I checked through a few blog posts and various other articles responding to the original. This was my favorite response that I read, from Wired of all places:
It just struck me as nicely critical, not truly angry or emotional, and an honest reply. He goes through all the reasons why the article is wrongheaded and then more importantly enters into a discussion as to how humanity is a diverse and many sided thing.
As a species we’ve been on this planet for a while. It blows my mind that anyone would think that we’ve been a homogenous one note species. The fact that we can point to solid evidence of the diversity of humanities preferences, be they sexual partner, gender orientation, clothing choice, etc. yet people still assume we are a boring one note species.
I am way happier and far more interested in a world that isn’t black and white. Where things exist to degrees and shades. It may be more difficult but its far more rewarding.
I'm not going to go into all the technical errors because most of the articles that are critical do well in fixing those errors but it goes to show how aware you need to be while reading newspaper and on-line articles.
man it's amazing how far one writers lazy ignorance can go.
I chose the same article! Thought it did a great job :)
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