UllrsIshtar -> RE: Why Aren't Women More Like Men In This Respect? (9/9/2016 11:25:18 AM)
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Why do the women nest? to provide a safe place to raise the children. So the species can procreate. This immediately creates an exchange system where the male gets sex for bringing home food. The better hunter, the better the chance to survive. Fuck the best hunter and get fed. The nest is safer with the best hunters. If a male doesn't hunt, he's not going to get sex. All males therefore hunt. Yup, and this is pretty much how stone age people rolled. Yeah except... a few exceptions aside, hunter-gatherer societies derive the lion share of their calories from gathering, not hunting... Which means that if you ascribe to the idea of "men hunt, women gather" (which has been shown to be false btw, both genders engaged in both activities, with women hunting primarily eggs, small game, and fished, while men gathered honey, fruits, and hunted bigger game) then it still results in the fact that women put the majority of calories on the table period. Taking into account that the gender division isn't along men=hunt and women=gather, but that women hunt as well, and often (because of size) more readily available game, the amount of calories contributed to diet by women increases even more (in some estimates being as high as 90%). Women were more successful on a day basis, with them generally bring food back ever single day (both animal and plant) with men's both gather of honey, high reach fruits and nuts, and large game being much more sporadic contributions, sometimes spanning weeks of them contributing nothing at all to the pot (in which cases it was the women's fare that tied everybody over). The only reason it seems that hunter-gatherers found it acceptable for men to -what comes down to- wasting a bunch of time in pursuit of game and gatherings which didn't have as high an immediate pay off as what the women contributed is because there are certain things to be gained from large game that cannot easily be replaced by small game (fat content, large hides, large stomach/bladder for water storage, large bones for certain tools, etc). A couple of these kills a year however were more than enough to suffice, and as such it was acceptable for men to spend an inordinate amount of time obtaining them, while the women made sure that there was food on the table every night. Make no mistake, women historically have always gone out and hunted/gathered their own fair. Men's contribution has always been focused on providing 'luxury' items.
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