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xssve -> RE: Misogyny and BDSM (12/31/2009 7:29:43 AM)
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In short, all biological life is pretty much organized around the women and children first principle - men are physically stronger in order to protect them, period.
In fact, linguistic ability was probably evolved by women, in the hunting/gathering economy, there is very little need for linguistic ability, in fact go hunting with your buddies and start orating, and they're going to tell you to shut the fuck up.
By contrast, gathering, which supplies on the order of 80% of the calories in the typical HG diet, relies on fairly complex cognitive mapping skills - what plants you can eat and what parts, where they can be found, what conditions they favor, what season they can be found in, when they're at their best, which poisonous plants look similar, etc., etc., a vast and complex library of information, critical to survival.
Information that requires long term episodic, eidetic and procedural memory, syntactic and lexical memory to communicate it to others - and you can jabber as much as you want when gathering, in fact it probably helps drive away the animals, the exact opposite of what is desirable when hunting, where the vastly larger human cerebral cortex's primary utility is heat dissipation.
It's why girls develop better verbal skills, and earlier. As it turns out, the alleles that govern cerebral development in humans are inherited almost exclusively maternally, they suppress the male alleles.
And I'm not saying men are stupid too, they have simply employed their verbal and abstractional skills in different directions, more abstract ones, less concerned with immediate survival and more concerned with expanding the overall cognitive map of consensus reality, objective or subjective, i.e, science, religion and politics, all abstract maps of reality, objective or subjective to greater or lesser extents.
It's a generalization of course, but there's enough of a statistical bias to characterize abstract cognitive skills as masculine, social verbal skills as feminine - and that's not even certain, given that women's contributions have often been suppressed historically - modern medicine comes from the pagan healers and witches (via Paracelsus), who possessed a vast store of pharmacological and anatomical knowledge, both theory and application, honed by practical experience. Mostly women.
You wanna hear a funny one, recent data suggests more girls are studying math and science, while the boys are more concerned with "being liked".
In short, the Hunting Hypothesis is depreciated, obsolete: one of the many, many advances made in evolutionary theory since the Gor books were written, the whole mid century paradigm that they're based on is sadly outdated. Gorean is a particular subjective map of reality, based on what was at one time the accepted objective map - the consensus regarding the objective map Gor was based on has changed, based on an exponentially expanding set of empirical data points, and Gor hasn't.
Because it's fiction, not science.
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