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Mr. Wright believes that evolutionary psychology (as this mixture of cognition and updated sociobiology is called) has profound implications for the human condition, particularly for sexual politics. He suggests that Victorian sexual morals, including the sexual double standard for men and women, and the "madonna-whore" dichotomy (in which coy women are valued as potential wives and loose women are denigrated as short-term conquests), offer tactical advantages to women.

"The Moral Animal" turns other popular beliefs inside out. Monogamy, Mr. Wright says, does not favor the interests of most women, particularly lower-status women. Most human cultures throughout history have been mildly polygynous, with wealthier men attracting several wives. Though women in these cultures "are often less than eager to share a man," he writes, "typically, they would rather do that than live in poverty with the undivided attention of a ne'er-do-well." Monogamy instead favors lower-status men, who in a polygynous society would be frozen out of the marriage market by a wife-collecting elite. It is no coincidence that Christianity has advocated monogamy and pitched its message to poor and powerless men.

One of the worst options for women and children, according to Mr. Wright, is what we now have, a near-equivalent of polygyny: serial divorce and remarriage. With real polygyny, wealthy men must support their old families after acquiring new ones; with serial divorce, the old families are abandoned. Mr. Wright challenges us to think through the implications:

"Johnny Carson, like many wealthy, high-status males, spent his career monopolizing long stretches of the reproductive years of a series of young women. Somewhere out there is a man who wanted a family and a beautiful wife and, if it hadn't been for Johnny Carson, would have married one of these women. And if this man has managed to find another woman, she was similarly snatched from the jaws of some other man. And so on -- a domino effect: a scarcity of fertile females trickles down the social scale."

His argument is not just a thought exercise; he pursues the consequences of the arithmetic: "Whereas in 1960 the fraction of the population age 40 or older that had never married was about the same for men and women, by 1990 the fraction was markedly larger for men than for women.

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uber_aj said:

i think women are viewed too personally. every hack-ass comedian who gets a sitcom brings up how, "guys, we married men know that women really run the house...hahahaha," but i think its bullshit. women for the most part really are dumb. they cry and then act like they're "bossy" b/c men are simple, and only want sex, so they flaunt it and pretend like they're in control. they think that their opinion has some kind of influence on anyone else b/c they're hot, but they really are just dumb. they believe in horoscopes and serendipity and all want to live out the movie "The Notebook." and they all cheat. every single one of them.

if anything, they should be more objectified. you think you're a goddess b/c you have a cooch and can shit out a kid? wow, how special. so can duck-billed platypi, and nobody worships them. oh and then they get mad about signing a prenup. how bout, "dont be a bitch and i won't divorce you?"

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Ya women are dumb. That is until you compare them to men. Who fucking go to war over some dumb religions and such. Or sit in front of a TV, get drunk and fat and relive the one football they caught on the Junior high team. Or think the truck they drive says something about them. Ya women are dumb.

Icelander said:

uber_aj said:

i think women are viewed too personally. every hack-ass comedian who gets a sitcom brings up how, "guys, we married men know that women really run the house...hahahaha," but i think its bullshit. women for the most part really are dumb. they cry and then act like they're "bossy" b/c men are simple, and only want sex, so they flaunt it and pretend like they're in control. they think that their opinion has some kind of influence on anyone else b/c they're hot, but they really are just dumb. they believe in horoscopes and serendipity and all want to live out the movie "The Notebook." and they all cheat. every single one of them.

if anything, they should be more objectified. you think you're a goddess b/c you have a cooch and can shit out a kid? wow, how special. so can duck-billed platypi, and nobody worships them. oh and then they get mad about signing a prenup. how bout, "dont be a bitch and i won't divorce you?"

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Ya women are dumb. That is until you compare them to men. Who fucking go to war over some dumb religions and such. Or sit in front of a TV, get drunk and fat and relive the one football they caught on the Junior high team. Or think the truck they drive says something about them. Ya women are dumb.

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Corporal Kielbasa said:

Silversoul said:

I see women paraded around like pieces of meat

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Whe are exactly that. Pieces of meat. So i don't get what your saying.

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shizznit said:

Corporal Kielbasa said:

Silversoul said:

I see women paraded around like pieces of meat

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Whe are exactly that. Pieces of meat. So i don't get what your saying.

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wtf is wrong with you? A women is a human fucking being with the same rights as any man... wow a females self honesty must be really fucked up by todays world

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leery11 said:

When we look at women we have to look at them from beyond the eyes of our cultural lense (television especially) and see them for that which we actually are.

Generally people have very very very large amounts of programs readily reinforced on a daily basis that make them view women in a certain way that is harmful to their health (1st noble truth) and that is harmful to all women in America and America's visceral influence....

I find it hard when people talk about how a girl is "hot" or whatever..... that's just not the right word. You can't use those words at all, hot, slut, bitch, cunt, tits, boobs..... you name it... you can't use them because the words are charged a certain color and they are the words of the programmers that exist to keep us enslaved to suffering via desire....... it's like looking at a black person and having "nigger" being the only LENSE you can see him with...... the social programmers invented the word nigger to harm, and they gave it to you like a guy handing out pamphlets on the street corner

you have to reject that portion of reality

deal with sexual impulses however you will, and the asthetics of womahood however you will, but try to realize it is objectively loaded into your brain as long as you are a media consumer, and that the only reasons you are taught to see them this way is to manipulate you and take your money.

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uber_aj said:

Icelander said:

uber_aj said:

i think women are viewed too personally. every hack-ass comedian who gets a sitcom brings up how, "guys, we married men know that women really run the house...hahahaha," but i think its bullshit. women for the most part really are dumb. they cry and then act like they're "bossy" b/c men are simple, and only want sex, so they flaunt it and pretend like they're in control. they think that their opinion has some kind of influence on anyone else b/c they're hot, but they really are just dumb. they believe in horoscopes and serendipity and all want to live out the movie "The Notebook." and they all cheat. every single one of them.

if anything, they should be more objectified. you think you're a goddess b/c you have a cooch and can shit out a kid? wow, how special. so can duck-billed platypi, and nobody worships them. oh and then they get mad about signing a prenup. how bout, "dont be a bitch and i won't divorce you?"

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Ya women are dumb. That is until you compare them to men. Who fucking go to war over some dumb religions and such. Or sit in front of a TV, get drunk and fat and relive the one football they caught on the Junior high team. Or think the truck they drive says something about them. Ya women are dumb.

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women don't go to war, they cry about how cruel UFC is and then fuck each other over behind their backs. they sit in front of the TV watching Lifetime and Oxygen eating tubs of Ben & Jerry's getting fat, hoping to relive that time that a guy wanted them at a club, even though they call him an asshole now for not putting up w/ their shit. They don't think their truck says something about them, they think their VW Beetle w/ a "Good girls never make history" bumper sticker says something about them. Women are like condoms, you use them once, wipe your remaining cum off your dick, and discard/

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uber_aj said:

Icelander said:

uber_aj said:

i think women are viewed too personally. every hack-ass comedian who gets a sitcom brings up how, "guys, we married men know that women really run the house...hahahaha," but i think its bullshit. women for the most part really are dumb. they cry and then act like they're "bossy" b/c men are simple, and only want sex, so they flaunt it and pretend like they're in control. they think that their opinion has some kind of influence on anyone else b/c they're hot, but they really are just dumb. they believe in horoscopes and serendipity and all want to live out the movie "The Notebook." and they all cheat. every single one of them.

if anything, they should be more objectified. you think you're a goddess b/c you have a cooch and can shit out a kid? wow, how special. so can duck-billed platypi, and nobody worships them. oh and then they get mad about signing a prenup. how bout, "dont be a bitch and i won't divorce you?"

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Ya women are dumb. That is until you compare them to men. Who fucking go to war over some dumb religions and such. Or sit in front of a TV, get drunk and fat and relive the one football they caught on the Junior high team. Or think the truck they drive says something about them. Ya women are dumb.

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women don't go to war, they cry about how cruel UFC is and then fuck each other over behind their backs. they sit in front of the TV watching Lifetime and Oxygen eating tubs of Ben & Jerry's getting fat, hoping to relive that time that a guy wanted them at a club, even though they call him an asshole now for not putting up w/ their shit. They don't think their truck says something about them, they think their VW Beetle w/ a "Good girls never make history" bumper sticker says something about them. Women are like condoms, you use them once, wipe your remaining cum off your dick, and discard/

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