Satoshi Kanazawa is a British-based Japanese evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics. In addition, he writes a blog for the American magazine “Psychology Today.” The title of a book he cowrote, Why Men Gamble and Women Buy Shoes: How Evolution Shaped the Way We Behave, unfortunately gives you an accurate idea of the sort of writing from him the readers of “Psychology Today” are subjected to. Naturally, science cannot simply be dismissed because it is unpopular or “politically incorrect”, but Kanazawa’s opinions are notably lacking in scientific rigor and basic knowledge.
For example, in March 2011, Kanazawa wrote an article titled, ‘Are All Women Essentially Prostitutes?’ The article reads:
“… high-class prostitutes like Allie and Maggie have more in common with college professors, corporate executives, or poets than with the more affordable and visible members of their profession…[p]rostitution is evolutionarily familiar, because mating is evolutionarily familiar and prostitutes (at least the classy ones) are no different from other women, whom men also have to pay – not in cash payments but in dinners and movies, gifts, flowers, chocolates, and motor oil…”
http://www.thenewagenda.net/2011/05/24/29600/
At no point did Kanazawa attempt to justify these assertions with statistics or anything other than anecdotes, which are not acceptable evidence. Where is the proof that women never pay on dates, that they never offer sex without being wined and dined on the man’s dime first? Only stereotypes and the occasional story from one of Kanazawa’s acquaintances.
Dorian is not Satoshi Kanazawa
For example, in March 2011, Kanazawa wrote an article titled, ‘Are All Women Essentially Prostitutes?’ The article reads:
“… high-class prostitutes like Allie and Maggie have more in common with college professors, corporate executives, or poets than with the more affordable and visible members of their profession…[p]rostitution is evolutionarily familiar, because mating is evolutionarily familiar and prostitutes (at least the classy ones) are no different from other women, whom men also have to pay – not in cash payments but in dinners and movies, gifts, flowers, chocolates, and motor oil…”
http://www.thenewagenda.net/2011/05/24/29600/
At no point did Kanazawa attempt to justify these assertions with statistics or anything other than anecdotes, which are not acceptable evidence. Where is the proof that women never pay on dates, that they never offer sex without being wined and dined on the man’s dime first? Only stereotypes and the occasional story from one of Kanazawa’s acquaintances.
Dorian is not Satoshi Kanazawa
He obviously doesn't have any real life experience
