@seekshelter
"oddly enough, her arm also looks thicker after putting it on"

She is using her arms to push the boobies together to make them look bigger. Looks like she's wearing a padded bra in the second pic.

...let me elaborate. I say creepy because being taught to fear science and technology as something bad or evil is creepy. Preferring to live without these things in the full knowledge of their advantages and disadvantages is not.

That is all sorts of creepy.

While this may be fairly accurate right now, I think this "law" may be relatively static.

Somehow, even in the 2030s, I doubt the fashion of the 80s will ever be considered to be "quaint".

@Timm,

I'm sure Xenu would approve.

This stems from the relatively recent field of evolutionary psychology. By looking at how environmental and reproductive pressures could have shaped human behaviours, psychologists have come up with rational explanations for various human behavioural phenomena, many of which are largely accepted (such as gender differences in sexual attraction, jealousy, parenting, and other behaviours).

The reason why evolutionary psychology is so popular and why researchers would be looking for an evolutionary explanation for this particular phenomenon is because evolutionary psychology can account for a broader range of human behaviour than any other psychological theory of human motivation. It is so far the best universal theory of what motivates human (and animal) behaviour that we have so far. As a result, researchers have gone rushing into all sorts of behavioural phenomenon, particularly those relating to reproduction looking for an evolutionary explanation.

Clearly in this particular instance (as in most), the phenomenon is more complicated than what these evolutionary biologists are suggesting. Other factors such as education, cultural values, and social pressures have been forgotten (although for all I know they covered all these limitations in their paper). However one cannot completely exclude our evolutionary roots from what motivates our behaviour. If these provide just one facet of an explanation for this particular phenomenon, perhaps this is it. But more likely in time improved theories will be offered.

@Briannana, Ted, @ Krikkit
Keep in mind that evolutionary psychology does not imply that we are mindless slaves to our evolutionary past, rather it attempts to explain why certain behaviours would occur with such frequency universally across different cultures as a result of our evolutionary past and the biological differences between the genders. Evolutionary psychology is explanatory of the mass, not prescriptive of the individual. There is always going to be plenty of variation in how our evolutionary past affects each of us, but there is no denying that it remains an influence.

@Ted
How can it be racist if it is supposed to be a universal theory describing behaviours that occur across cultures independent of race?

@emmakate
Pulling out is pretty ineffective as far as birth control goes. Not putting in to begin with unless you have a condom would be preferable.

@Mike, improvising?

And what is wrong with words like hosting, impacting, or referencing? And who uses the word referencing the most? The academic community. I guess they're all wrong then?

...Moulin Rouge, Strictly Ballroom, Slumdog Millionaire, Centre Stage, Chicago, Napolean Dynamite, Saturday Night Fever...

@Penmeister

I'd say more of a brown.

@ Phil M

At least we can articulate vowels correctly. The New Zealand accent sounds like regardless of how the words are spelled, the vowels actually enunciated are randomly drawn from a hat.

@ Colt Seaver

"Is a donkey even smart enough to be frightened at height?"

Are you serious? A basic fear response doesn't require much intelligence. It's instinctual. You can even see it kicking and struggling as it tries to find its balance.

I guess you think that most animals are too stupid to know their heads from their tails. Every single direct ancestor of every single animal alive today was an evolutionary success in that they were intelligent and healthy enough to survive long enough to reproduce. I suppose breeding livestock doesn't particularly count as natural selection at work, but the ancestors of this creature thrived in the wild long before agricultural farming and human intervention.

Fear is one of the most basic instincts and vital to the survival of almost every animal in the wild.

And 8-bit isn't dated?

Forheadstache

@SuperCrap
"i can't imagine ANYONE except some backwoods hillbillies saying it that way when asked to pronounce the word as slowly as possible..."

I guess Australians must be backwards hillbillies then. I never pronounce the 't' sound, nor do I recall any Australians doing so.

Also, we pronounce "processes" as pro-cess-es with an emphasis on the 'cess' part, the 'pro' part rhyming with 'no', and a short 'e' sound at the end.

Despite Australia being such a large country, we generally don't have regional accents. You can't tell where anybody is from by their accent, although there is a sort of continuum from urban to rural that most people's accents lie on. People living in rural Australia tend to have a bit more of what we call a "bogan" (rhymes with Paul Hogan) accent, and say things like "Hows youse gaa'n?"

This could have something to do with America generally being an individualist culture where the focus is on the individual, and Japan generally being a collectivist culture where the focus is more often on the group.

Perhaps people from individualist cultures are predisposed to identify more with the person in the middle and so pay less attention to the group, and people from collectivist cultures are pre-disposed to identify with the group, causing them to spend more time focusing on the people in the background even when asked to focus only on the person in the middle.

Apologies for the run-on sentences :P