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" Answer Fella believes as firmly as any bleeding-heart do-gooder in the Brotherhood of Man. AF also believes in Celebrating Our Differences. But above all, AF believes that no question is too dangerous or silly to ask and try to answer. Herewith, then, a fearless tasting of the burnt gristle of stereotypes spicing the stew in the melting pot bubbling on the stove top of America. So go ahead, call AF a racist. A sexist. Ugly. Just don&amp;#039;t call him a pussy.  Why do women paint and dress themselves like whores? AF&amp;#039;s crack research team asked a director of a women&amp;#039;s- and gender-studies program, the director of the Center for Research on Gender and Sexuality, the director of a women&amp;#039;s resource center, the chairman of a women&amp;#039;s-studies department, and a professor of gender studies -- all of them entrenched at different universities from coast to coast -- and the verdict was essentially unanimous: Women are hapless victims of a capitalist patriarchy constantly bombarding them with verbal and visual messages portraying them as powerful only when they are hot and slutty, thereby denying them their rightful place at the head of the big-boy table, boo-fucking-hoo.  Mention biology to these blowhards and you get &amp;quot;Women are not biological facts. We are more than our ovaries.&amp;quot; Back in the real world, however, Ovaries + Fish-nets = Survival of All Humanity, or, as Wenda Trevathan, a New Mexico State University professor of anthropology (an actual discipline, as opposed to a bastion of denaturalized hackademics), puts it, &amp;quot;In most species, the male puts on the show to convince females that he is a good mate. The female is the scarce resource, and males have to compete for access to females, with the goal being reproductive success. So it&amp;#039;s a little atypical for human females to be the ones putting on the show.&amp;quot; Atypical? AF spells that m-u-y c-a-l-i-e-n-t-e.  How do the Jews manage to control the American media? Shhhh. Ixnay on the Ewishjay estionquay. Don&amp;#039;t make trouble. Rebbe Murdoch might find out. Do all Mexicans have huge families? Not compared with El Punado de Miguel y Carolina Brady or los Osmonds. Still, recent census numbers show that in los Estados Unidos, the average family of &amp;quot;Hispanic origin&amp;quot; is larger by a ratio of about four to three, with 28.4 percent of families having five or more members, whereas non-Hispanic families with five or more members make up only 11.4 percent of the total.  As for family size in Mexico proper, Gloria Gonzalez-La Pez, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Texas, notes that &amp;quot;the average number of children women had in the 1960s was 7.3. It went down to 2.4 in 2000. What we are seeing is a reflection of different things. One of them is the introduction of contraceptives in the 1960s. Also, in the mid-1970s, the government had a very powerful family-planning program.&amp;quot;  It was during that campaign, apparently, that all television stations in Mexico were required to air episodes of Maude twenty-four hours daily. Why are white men such fucking pussies?  Hey! Watch it, pal, or AF will call his attorney and have him send you a vaguely threatening letter by certified mail. As to the question itself, who better to consult than Charley Flint, professor of sociology and criminal justice at William Paterson University and the cofounder of the Center for the Study of White American Culture and an African-American feminist to boot? &amp;quot;You&amp;#039;ll see studies that show white males don&amp;#039;t flaunt machismo, because they don&amp;#039;t have to. The power is in the United States, and they&amp;#039;re in control of the country,&amp;quot; says Flint. &amp;quot;You have the stereotype of the tough black guy -- it&amp;#039;s exaggerated and it&amp;#039;s not anything new -- as a strong, sexual being. This is all sexual stuff. But you don&amp;#039;t hear that about white males. You hear that white guys have little ones.&amp;quot; Whoa! You ought to see this bad boy when the Levitra kicks in. But go on. &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t think white guys are taught how to physically defend themselves, because they don&amp;#039;t have to. They are the ones in control. If you&amp;#039;re a CEO, you don&amp;#039;t have to worry about knocking someone out; you have other social capital. Other things might have to do with perceived stereotypes of white men: Black men play basketball and football, and white men play golf and tennis. Those don&amp;#039;t require a lot of machismo.&amp;quot;  Oh, yeah? Hand AF a 5-iron and he&amp;#039;ll crack Mike Tyson&amp;#039;s skull.  How come so many Irish are drunks? Erin go figure: While researchers agree that genetic factors drive alcoholism, there&amp;#039;s no evidence that the Irish, as a folk or nation, are prone to alcohol dependency. Says Dr. Kenneth Kendler, director of the Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, the reputation of the drunken Irish derives from a particular immigrant group: &amp;quot;The Irish have for 150 years been exporting young men in large numbers to work in building trades and other lower-class jobs, and like many ethnic groups, if you take young men and strip away their womenfolk, they drink a lot. But that doesn&amp;#039;t translate back to the general public.&amp;quot; Still, recent research indicates that the per-capita rate of alcohol consumption in Ireland trails only the Czech Republic and Luxembourg among European Union nations and that the Irish are the EU&amp;#039;s top binge drinkers. In response, a spokesman for Ireland&amp;#039;s Drinks Industry Group offered to &amp;quot;beat the bloody shite&amp;quot; out of the researchers.  Are gay men more promiscuous than straight men? Current research indicates that, yes indeedy, the horny sumbitches are. &amp;quot;When looking at sexual behaviors,&amp;quot; says David Schmitt, an evolutionary psychologist at Bradley University who surveyed sixteen thousand people worldwide in 2003 about their sexual preferences, &amp;quot;homosexual men engage in more casual sex than heterosexual men. This is true across all cultures.&amp;quot;  The crux of the matter, according to Schmitt, is that while men, hetero and homo, &amp;quot;generally view casual sex as okay, the potential partners of heterosexual men are women, who are less accepting of casual sex. The real differences between homosexual and heterosexual men are in the psychologies of their potential partners. Having potential male partners leads to more casual sex.&amp;quot; (Full disclosure: AF himself views casual sex as much better than &amp;quot;okay,&amp;quot; primarily because everyone is more promiscuous than he is, save -- he prays -- Mrs. Fella. AF dislikes formal sex, though. It&amp;#039;s too hard to get the semen stains out of his cummerbund.) Dr. Jack Drescher, author of Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man, tells AF, &amp;quot;The early gay-rights movement was about sexual liberation as part of the larger movement. For many people coming out at the time, the idea that you could have as much sex as you wanted was a cultural response to the conservative social values of the time. If promiscuity were central to homosexuality, the gay-rights movement wouldn&amp;#039;t be fighting for the rights it is today. What you&amp;#039;re seeing is a different culture, a different generation.&amp;quot; Actually, what AF&amp;#039;s seeing tonight is another wasted hit of Levitra.  Do hillbillies inbreed? Taboo is a Tongan word, Cletus, but the religious and legal prohibition of some consanguineous sex -- parent-child and between full siblings -- is more or less universal. Cousin coupling is a different affair; eighteen of the fifty United States allow it unconditionally, including New York and California. According to Martin Ottenheimer, a social anthropologist and the author of Forbidden Relatives, &amp;quot;The common perception is that marriage between cousins is permitted more so in the South and in Appalachia than anyplace else, and that&amp;#039;s simply not true.&amp;quot;  Regarding Appalachia in particular, Gregory Leavitt, professor of sociology at Idaho State University, says, &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s a lot of poverty there, and where there&amp;#039;s poverty, there&amp;#039;s a lot of disease and birth defects, so it was blamed on inbreeding when, in fact, it was poverty. Genetic studies on those groups found they&amp;#039;re not any more inbred than other groups.&amp;quot; By the way, Ottenheimer&amp;#039;s research indicates that bans on first-cousin marriages are based on &amp;quot;faulty evolutionary theory&amp;quot; unsupported by modern genetics, and he notes that no other Western nation prohibits them. Too late, alas, for Jerry Lee Lewis.  Why do African-American men prefer women with such big asses? Context -- historical, cultural, and economic -- shapes human behavior, especially in so complex a matter as bootyliciousness. Benjamin Bowser, former president of the Association of Black Sociologists and professor of sociology at California State University, notes, &amp;quot;The black aesthetic is coming out of the rural, agricultural South. It&amp;#039;s also a social-class aesthetic. It&amp;#039;s fairly consistent that black men and women in working-class communities prefer people with bigger bodies. In the black middle class, the aesthetic tends to shift toward preferences for the thinner, more athletic look.&amp;quot; Professor Bowser adds, buttockswise, &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s looking at one particular piece of it. A big behind is not very attractive without the rest of the body.&amp;quot; According to Midge Wilson of DePaul University, who is currently researching cultural differences in body-size preference, simple conditioning may be a factor: &amp;quot;If you&amp;#039;re raised by a large mother, you will continue associating largeness with love.&amp;quot; With regard to craving Arsae Major, Professor Wilson cites an evolutionary theory -- &amp;quot;Among the first human females in Africa, there was a tendency for the hips to curve upward, resulting in the buttocks being raised. The sight of them would naturally be erotic to men&amp;quot; -- but adds that this is &amp;quot;certainly not what I believe accounts for the difference in body-size preference observed today.&amp;quot; But the last word must go to Sir Mix-A-Lot, whose 1992 tuchis tribute, &amp;quot;Baby Got Back,&amp;quot; brought big rears to the fore. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve never met a black man who didn&amp;#039;t like a juicy butt,&amp;quot; Mix tells AF. &amp;quot;Maybe it&amp;#039;s just in our blood.&amp;quot; Got a question? Send it to Answer Fella via esquire.com/talk. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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