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Amaros -> RE: Male Perceptions of males (1/5/2009 3:43:46 PM)
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ORIGINAL: CatdeMedici
uh so what does female procreation have to do with "Male perceptions of males"?
not to be a brat here but...
Everything and nothing. It has to do with "what women want", i.e., strong male provider, hunter, etc., someone who can protect and help her obtain resources when she is burdened with child.
Surely you are aware that there is a widespread masculine tendency to disparage anything feminine, a tendency that often crosses over into violence when a male displays traits considered feminine - presumably, this would be seen to possibly undermine the entire notion of masculine prerogative, though it's probably more likely that it represents the projection of cognitive dissonance of sympathetic homoerotic sensations on the part of those who have invested a great deal of psychic energy into suppressing the same, consciously or subconsciously - no big deal really, homoerotic urges don't really make you homosexual, and damn near all mammals exhibit bisexual behaviors from time to time.
That then there's the whole religious right thing, the Augustinian concept of passionless sex for procreative purposes only, which has somehow managed to attract adherents - there is a certain strain of fear of feminine sexuality, i.e., that women are sexually insatiable, so you don't dare "get them started", and feminized men may be threatening on a subconscious level, a "bad example", so to speak.
There is a general tendency here to disparage any sort of sexual activity that is deemed "frivolous", as well as the usual threat to male status - i.e., the whole notion of male supremacy is based politically on the notion that it's "natural", i.e., biological, and inescapable, and feminized men are a walking reproof to that notion, and that in turn would seem to raise questions about male status in general, and status is useful in obtaining those resources one requires to obtain and retain a mate, and raise your mutual progeny. This all reflects agrarian economic values, where divisions of labor are fairly clear cut and established, these divisions, expressed as roles, get a little more nebulous in an urban/industrial information economy.
Supressing a neurosis tends to heighten it however, and all that orgasm denial makes them a little crazy, IMO - people tend to resent those who indulge in what they deny themselves, and what you end up with is a bunch of very cranky aesetics.
In truth, males are generally statistically a little more motivated to have things their way, largely a function of testosterone, but it a generalization that breaks down on the individual level: it's the pattern of life that it tends to diversify if given half a chance, and my feeling is that politics essentially exaggerates what some relatively mild tendencies into some sort of neo-Darwinian life and death struggle where it's all got to be one way or the other - Manichean sexual dualism.
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