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Female Chauvinist Pigs?
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: bradINblue on November 22, 2008, 03:34:46 am ---So are you saying women are weaker???
Brad
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What opinionista said. Physically, of course. There is sexual dimorphism in our species. Men, on average, are bigger and have more musculature than women. Just fact.
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: Penthesilea on November 22, 2008, 02:38:29 pm ---I often have the vice versa feeling with American movies. 'Under no circumstances have sex before the third date, otherwise he'll think the woman is a sl*t' seems to be a motto in Amercian movies and series.
::)
I have to admit that it adds the stereotype of "the prude Americans".
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Sad but true. The northern Americas were settled by Puritans, don't forget. ;D
A friend of mine once met this guy, and she wanted to sleep with him on the first date. She was that attracted to him. But she decided not to because her clothes were too complicated to easily get in and out of.
That simple fact made up her mind.
Luckily for her, I guess. The guy went on to have a 4 year relationship with her and let it be known that had she slept with him on the first date, he would have considered her a 'slut' and never seen her again - after agreeing to have sex her first, of course. ::)
The fact that she would have slept with him on the first date and is thus someone he would have considered a slut and not worthy of his company as boyfriend but perfectly fine because she waited one extra week apparently didn't register to him as wonky thinking.
It does to me - and my friend. Go figure.
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on November 22, 2008, 04:16:00 pm ---True. But throughout history, this has been common practice for powerful men in many societies.
And incidentally, there is no known culture in which women commonly have multiple husbands.
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There are several actually. The one I remember best is somewhere in the Himalayan area - Tibet, Nepal, someplace like that. But it's certainly not because women have more status or get more status when they have more husbands. It's their solution to lack of fertile land availability.
The woman usually marries brothers. No matter who gets her pregnant, they are all related, so the land stays in the family and the woman can only have a limited number of children to pass the land to through inheritance.
That is one culture where a man's desire to procreate with a bunch of different women is a disadvantage socially - and economically.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on November 22, 2008, 09:17:27 pm ---The woman usually marries brothers. No matter who gets her pregnant, they are all related, so the land stays in the family and the woman can only have a limited number of children to pass the land to through inheritance.
That is one culture where a man's desire to procreate with a bunch of different women is a disadvantage socially - and economically.
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Not only that, but the genes stay within the family. Evolutionarily speaking, it's the classic exception that proves the rule.
lia:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on November 22, 2008, 09:17:27 pm ---There are several actually. The one I remember best is somewhere in the Himalayan area - Tibet, Nepal, someplace like that. But it's certainly not because women have more status or get more status when they have more husbands. It's their solution to lack of fertile land availability.
The woman usually marries brothers. No matter who gets her pregnant, they are all related, so the land stays in the family and the woman can only have a limited number of children to pass the land to through inheritance.
That is one culture where a man's desire to procreate with a bunch of different women is a disadvantage socially - and economically.
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It looks to me as if this system must produce a lot of surplus girls. Seeing that boys often get a raw deal in US polygamist setups or even get discarded: I wonder what happens to the girls not required for breeding in the example you describe above?
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