The Biology of Good Relationships (text)
ACT I Scene 1 For the past 5 episodes we’ve been talking about many different ways men’s and women’s reproductive instincts affect how we think. That can lead to a…
Our Lives Matter S1E40: The Biology of Good Relationships
Men and women have many different feelings about relationships. Relationships both partners are happy with always have some important things in common. If men keep those in mind, it’s much…
Buildings and Bridges by Ani DiFranco
Ani DiFranco invented her own genre of folk-punk back in 1990. She started her own record label to produce her music. Today she has 32 albums out. "Buildings and bridges…
The Biology of Consent (text)
ACT I Scene 1 I’m going to be talking about sexual assault in this episode again. Our story of Being Human on Planet Earth has brought us up to talking…
Our Lives Matter S1E39: The Biology of Consent
Men and women have a lot of different feelings surrounding sex. Some of those feeling can lead men to not notice, not care, or not feel it’s important, that women…
When We Need Her by Fanny (Walked the Earth)
Fanny was the first all female band to be signed to a major record label in the US. June and Jean Millington and Brie Howard are Filipina-Americans who started playing…
The Biology of Sexual Assault (text)
ACT I Scene 0 Are you listening? Are you paying attention? Good. This episode deals with sexual violence. And it’s very long. Because there are a lot of primal…
Our Lives Matter S1E38: The Biology of Sexual Assault
Relationships between men and women get complicated because our different reproductive instincts make us want different things from relationships. That makes some men misunderstand, or not ever care, about women…
Til It Happens to You by Lady Gaga
Here's another song that starts a discussion. The lyrics are abstract, about feelings whose cause is never specified in the song. In one way, that could make it a song…
The Mathematics of Gender Differences (text)
ACT I Scene 1 Men and women reproduce differently. So we’ve evolved different instincts for reproducing. Those affect how we think about a lot of things. Neither way of…