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n0nsensical · 01-03-2008, 07:57 AM

Well I was writing some hugely complicated analysis of human genetics and society, but maybe I'll save that for a master's thesis.

The bottom line is, it is that way, because everyone makes it that way. Men go after women because...they do. If men stopped seeking out women, women would seek out men, but that's not how it currently works. Though you can individually CHOOSE not to seek out women, it's not going to get you anywhere because that's not everyone else's m.o. Social change happens, and it's much faster than genetic evolution, but it's still a lot slower than individuals' timescales: Life is short.

We are currently in the middle of a large social change in gender roles. Once upon a time men had a specific role and women had a specific role, but they're merging. In time things will become more balanced. For now there are still a lot of vestiges of men as providers/protectors and women as child raisers. Men initially got their provider/protector role due to their additional physical strength, but that's all made irrelevant by mechanization. You don't need any physical strength to operate guns and machines, and no amount of physical strength will save you from a bullet. We are now in the information age where intelligence is a more significant factor in your value to society. This is also the age of birth control where we choose when to raise children and we're generally choosing to do far less of it. Men may still be predisposed to seek out women fit for childbearing and women to seek strength and economic power, but now that in the modern era women can "provide" equally well as men and don't have the large energetic requirement of bearing children much of their adult lives, social and genetic evolution will respond accordingly.

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n0nsensical Junkie Location: San Francisco	Well I was writing some hugely complicated analysis of human genetics and society, but maybe I'll save that for a master's thesis. The bottom line is, it is that way, because everyone makes it that way. Men go after women because...they do. If men stopped seeking out women, women would seek out men, but that's not how it currently works. Though you can individually CHOOSE not to seek out women, it's not going to get you anywhere because that's not everyone else's m.o. Social change happens, and it's much faster than genetic evolution, but it's still a lot slower than individuals' timescales: Life is short. We are currently in the middle of a large social change in gender roles. Once upon a time men had a specific role and women had a specific role, but they're merging. In time things will become more balanced. For now there are still a lot of vestiges of men as providers/protectors and women as child raisers. Men initially got their provider/protector role due to their additional physical strength, but that's all made irrelevant by mechanization. You don't need any physical strength to operate guns and machines, and no amount of physical strength will save you from a bullet. We are now in the information age where intelligence is a more significant factor in your value to society. This is also the age of birth control where we choose when to raise children and we're generally choosing to do far less of it. Men may still be predisposed to seek out women fit for childbearing and women to seek strength and economic power, but now that in the modern era women can "provide" equally well as men and don't have the large energetic requirement of bearing children much of their adult lives, social and genetic evolution will respond accordingly. __________________ "Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded." --Abraham Lincoln Last edited by n0nsensical; 01-03-2008 at 08:01 AM..