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An anthropological study refutes the idea of strict gender roles in hunter/gatherer societies, evopsych redditors in full meltdown (old.reddit.com)

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They're mostly getting dunked on, but they're wriggling around all over the thread raging about science being made "political."

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[-] [email protected] 80 points 2 years ago

In Braiding Sweetgrass the author mentions this Native American tribe where hunting is predominantly done by men but is only taught to boys by grandmothers. They de-masculinise it so that it doesn't become a toxic competition for male virtues. Instead it's taught as doing a hard but necessary thing in the context of stewardship and reciprocity for the land. They're also learning the plants from the predominantly female gatherers since that's necessary information when you're away from camp. Segregating information based on sex only makes sense if one side is so disproportionately powerful that they think they can completely subjugate the other. That's stupid when you have a limited number of hands and a set number of tasks required to survive.

[-] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That's stupid when you have a limited number of hands and a set number of tasks required to survive.

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violence, particularly structural violence, where all the power is on one side, creates ignorance. If you have the power to hit people over the head whenever you want, you don’t have to trouble yourself too much figuring out what they think is going on, and therefore, generally speaking, you don’t. Hence the sure-fire way to simplify social arrangements, to ignore the incredibly complex play of perspectives, passions, insights, desires, and mutual understandings that human life is really made of, is to make a rule and threaten to attack anyone who breaks it. This is why violence has always been the favored recourse of the stupid: it is the one form of stupidity to which it is almost impossible to come up with an intelligent response. It is also of course the basis of the state.

[-] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This is why violence has always been the favored recourse of the stupid: it is the one form of stupidity to which it is almost impossible to come up with an intelligent response. It is also of course the basis of the state.

This resonates all the way to the USMC where they celebrate the crayon eating meme/joke as a personal identifier.

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