MikeBGene:
>Just think. Evolutionary science may one day be used to teach all
>the little boys they are potential rapists. It may also be used to
>enforce a dress code where all the girls need to be covered from the neck
>down. How ironic.
oh, right :-) that'll happen!
Discussion of this book is raging on several lists I'm on at the moment. I
haven't weighted in on much of it because I think it is so darn near
impossible to examine one's own culture. It's too much like asking a fish to
describe water. What you get is a fish's preconcieved *ideas* about water. I
find that when sociobiologists start working, the subjugation of blacks is
"natural," oppression of females is "natural" and *amazingly* white European
males are "naturally" strong, virile leaders/overlords or whatever is
fashionable at the moment. I keep remembering the "man the mighty hunter"
fantasy from the '50s and '60s where women subserviantly cook the raw meat
the men bring home to the cave. Hogwash. The rape thing is hogwash also. I
bowed out of the feminist movement when men became the Source of All That is
Evil.
When you look at neolithic cultures that persist to modern times you see
partnerships between women and men, close-knit hunter-gatherer bands,
extended families and diets that are approximately 80% plant-based.
Susan
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