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Comment by inglor_cz

4 hours ago

"A few centuries aren't long enough for such marked selective pressure on a polygenic trait."

Are you sure? In extremis, if blue-eyed people (a polygenic trait) are considered absolutely unfuckable, I would expect them to disappear from the population in 10-15 generations, or at least become very, very rare.

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