Re: Feminist kooks dominate anthropology of "male violence"

From: offshore eddie (eddie_at_nospam.com)
Date: 07/26/04 

Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 23:07:51 GMT

"Hyerdahl1" <hyerdahl1@aol.com> wrote in message
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> >Subject: Feminist kooks dominate anthropology of "male violence"
> >From: "offshore eddie" eddie@nospam.com
> >Date: 7/25/2004 11:45 PM Pacific Daylight Time
> >Message-id: <tM1Nc.14576$mL5.12124@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>
> >
> >"Feminist" kooks have not only distorted the perception of the present,
they
> >are busy distorting perceptions of the past. Here is some of the typical
> >"feminist" bull*** that passes for anthropology today:
> >
> > "Popular culture, religious dogma, and scientific discourse
> > perpetuate the idea of an insatiable male "sex drive."
> > Frequently, this idea is used to justify sexual pursuit
> > regardless of a woman's will. Men are portrayed as
> > captive to their libido and therefore not fully responsible for
> > their actions. Sometimes men's raging hormones are
> > portrayed as the culprit, whereas at other times, male
> > behavior is couched in the language of evolutionary biology
> > in which male promiscuity is seen as a vestige of
> > evolutionary forces that confer "selective advantage" on
> > men who impregnate as many women as possible."
> >
> >Male aggression IS largely a vestige of evolutionary forces.
>
> Blaming evolution won't help bitter boys who do resort to violence. The
prison
> system will simply protect us from them.

Rewriting history won't protect you from the truth, which is that many of
your fellow females are attracted to those patriarchal violent males you
pretend to despise. You made your own bed, anthropologically speaking.

> Politically correct anthropologists have dumped that theory, though,
because
> it doesn't>suit their anti-male agenda.
>
> Evolution is forward thinking, violence stems from our violent patriarchal
> past.
> Nothing much new about that.

And your violent patriarchal past stems in part from women who chose to mate
with violent men so they could share the rewards those violent men acquired.

> Otherwise, they would have to answer the
> question, what evolutionary forces selected for aggressive males? Why,
> females' choices, of course. Aggressive males got the rewards in the
herd,
> and the females chose to mate with those males so they could share the
rewards.
> The reason there are "so many" violent males today is that>*females
chose to
> mate with the most aggressive males*, just as they do
> >today.
> >
> >The feminist response to this is usually to claim the women had no
choice;
> >they were raped. However, other anthropologists, some of them feminists
> >unwittingly working at odds with their cohorts, have shown that rape
> >accounted for only a small portion of births, and was not common enough
to
> >be a selective force:
> >
> Rape was certainly a reproductive strategy, as well as an anger management
> device of men's past and, to some degree, of the present. Of course,
today
> women have law and guns and birth control and the right to choose, so men
who
> rape as a reproductive strategy are none too smart.
> :-)

Rape is not a major reproductive strategy. It is a natural byproduct of
male violence. Women chose to mate with violent males.

> > "Dr. Sanday presented findings from her> now-classic comparative
study of
> rape in 156 tribal societies. According to her detailed analysis of the
> ethnographic record, rape of women by men was totally absent or extremely
rare
> in 47 percent of the cultures she studied (Sanday, 1981)."
> >
> Most tribal society doesn't maintain a male only godhead. And everyone in
the
> tribe has value. If we define rape as 'nonconsentual sexual
intercourse" I
> assure you rapes will be present in tribal society. Violent rapes may be
> something else completely, so whether or not there were rapes, would tend
to
> depend on how they were defined in her study.
>
> Therefore, there are aggressive men today because women in the past chose
to
> >mate with aggressive men.
>
> Nurture effects the upbringing of our children much more than nature. And
> let's face it, women have no need for having control over men. Women know
when
> they are mothers. :-)

Nature or nurture, many women are attracted to aggressive men. You can stop
blaming all men for the bad choices of members of your own gender.

> Simple. But, no, the "feminists" cannot tolerate>any theory in which
women
> share the guilt.
> >
> Women don't need to share any guilt about male violence. Men do it.

And women reward them with sex.

> (edit)"
> >
>
> >
> Each colony is a family unit, comprising a single egg-laying female ...The
> workers cooperate in the food gathering, nest building and rearing
offspring.
> Males are reared only at times of year when their presence is required.
> (Secret Life of Bees)