ChrisHibbert comments on Where's Your Sense of Mystery? - Less Wrong

35 Post author: Yvain 26 April 2009 12:45AM

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Comment author: Alicorn 26 April 2009 01:07:59AM 4 points [-]

A couple things, both somewhat peripheral to the main point:

1) Is there actually some adaptive benefit to large breasts? I seem to remember reading somewhere that there isn't and they're only common in humans because guys select for them.

2) This is an awfully straight-male-centric post. I realize that this is a community which probably consists mostly of straight (or at least bi) males, but I would have appreciated some explicit parenthetical remark or footnote noting that assumption.

Comment author: ChrisHibbert 26 April 2009 04:20:23PM *  6 points [-]

With as much awareness as a footnote or parenthetical would take, the post could have been edited from

as anyone who's ever fallen for a woman based entirely on her looks can tell you.

to

as anyone who's ever fallen for someone based entirely on looks can tell you.

without changing the intended meaning one iota, and easily making the entire post more friendly to many who might have felt slighted (or just left out) by the original.