I blame Magneto.

Just on the off chance you read this again, AC...

Regarding social heredity, you strangely state you disagree then promptly state the same as I did: daughters tend to follow their mother's social footprints. With what are you in disagreement? There's exceptions, there's the opposite tack, but the trend is there.

Regarding physical beauty, you are in an age where you must see past the makeover. Women have become quite excellent at painting their faces, pumping their bra bladders, and otherwise fitting the current norms of beauty (your "ideas"). I'll leave it to you to discover the beauty that wakes up beautiful. Then look at *their* mothers / fathers. The foundation is often palpable.

And that rare level of beauty used to sleep next to us in a cave.

Regardless, my original post stands. Sweeping generalization, yes, but it stands.

The problem with most biologists and geneticists (I'm one) is a lack of objectivity. They should talk to more engineers when solving problems (I'm one of those too).

Process A
Most planned pregnancies happen in later life.
Most unplanned pregnancies happen while drunk.
Most drunk intercourse is with the first willing partner.
Most willing partners are more homely than gorgeous.
Most homely women are shorter and fatter.

Process B
Most unplanned pregnancies are followed by unplanned marriages.
Most marriages starting with an unplanned child are followed by subsequent progeny (it started with sex, so sex is what you do together for the first while)
Most social traits carry on through generations - daughters of young mothers often have early pregnancies (these may involve factors expressed in Process A)

Thus, homely Mom, homely daughters, Mom got drunk and had sex early so why can't I, followed by more homely daughters...

Where's the mystery?

"Protect Your Ass."

This guy's experience:
Rifles? Agreed. Same here.
Automatic (or semi) Rifles? Different story. BIG "fun" bringing those out.
Handguns? Ugly. Very very ugly. Too empowering. Too tempting.

I too enjoy shooting other people's guns. But they really shouldn't own non-hunting rifles or handguns. That's stupid. Sorry, rationalize away, but it really is.

Yeah, because the freaks who snap and kill their families or random innocents were all identified by their neighbors as being "loud troublemakers with long criminal histories".

Wow, 2-for-1! I've learned the term "eggcorn" and discovered that "just deserts" is not desserts after all. I'm indebted.

That's because "pulled her braid" and "smoothed her skirts" comprise 47% of the content.

Oh my. The irony!
That's like saying the Grand Canyon mimics a crack in a sidewalk. Legacy dudes are saying "I wish!" in chorus.

If only you had written:

Anyway, those are my too principal complaints.

I don't completely disagree with you, but you must consider that what we meat-spacers generally experience *visually* as 3-dimensions is actually just a stereoscopic 2D image. Tie you to a chair with your arms bound, and that's really all there is to experience.

I wear glasses that are smaller than my visual range, thus a ring of blur constitutes my peripheral vision. I am, if you would entertain it a moment, viewing the world through a "screen". The fact that objects at distance "react" 3-dimensionally to my eye/head movements is just a control problem... given the right interface and feedback, I could be fooled quite readily.

However, the 3D desktop concept can and will be done well some day. I hope/hoped someone besides Apple pull it off though. They tend to take the arms-tied-to-your-sides concept too literally.

Unless, of course, the two dollar signs are from different currencies...

This too crosses the gender gap, though. I have a hard time concentrating on conversations whose topics are not in my sphere of interests... Trip across something that we commonly find stimulating however, and ta-dah! social interaction flows like spring water.

...unless, of course, the chick is really hot...