EOD Roundup
EOD Roundup: According to “Science,” Men and Women Can’t be Friends
6:30 pm, February 15th | by Colette McIntyre
In today’s EOD Roundup, science wants you to stop being such a tease and either get with your best guy friend or set him free because no man actually wants to be your friend — your friend with benefits, maybe. If you’re not planning to bring him to The Bone Zone, you let him out of The Friend Zone. You see, a study found that the two sexes “can experience the same exact relationship in radically different ways”: Men believe that even their most platonic opposite-sex friendship retains the possibility of romance. I just…I can’t. I’m too exhausted to try to explain to this “study” that gender differences aren’t innate and that sham science like this has a hand in creating the very phenomenon that it studies. It’s Friday; let’s just watch Vinn Diesel one last time and call it a day. [Salon]
Rich Long Island girls’ favorite jewelry brand Tiffany & Co. has filed a lawsuit against Costco alleging that the wholesale retailer sold “hundreds if not thousands” of engagement rings deceivingly branded as Tiffany. That reminds me–if anyone if looking for a cheap engagement ring, I know a great guy who sells Tiffonys out of his trunk in the Olive Garden’s back parking lot. [Styleite]
No one can believe that an Essex teenager has a higher IQ than Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates, and Albert Einstein — because said teenager is a 16-year-old girl. Lauren Marbe scored 161 on the Mensa brain test after entering with other schoolmates for fun; the “normal” teen loves her “fake tan and fake nails” but said she was glad “to show people that [girls from Essex] aren’t all ditzy and blonde.” [Telegraph]
We have finally found one person who hasn’t seen at least one episode of Downton Abbey: the Dowager Countess of Grantham herself, Maggie Smith. Our “Reasons Why We Wish Maggie Smith Would Just Come and Rescue Us From Our Lives Perhaps Because We Are Some Secret Heir to the Throne of the Kingdom of Genovia and She’s Our Grandmother” list just grew by one. [The Guardian]
It’s hard out here for a female gamer: when they aren’t being attacked for analyzing negative tropes surrounding women in video games, female gamers are being harassed for just daring to venture into the online gaming community. Graduate student Wai Yen Tang decided to find out why player gender affects the types of comments received in-game in her study, “Communication in multiplayer gaming: Examining player responses to gender cues.” The results are equal parts fascinating and infuriating. (Would you expect anything else at this point?) [The Mary Sue]
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