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onyxhawke

Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature

Sep 26, 2007 15:27

It should come as no surprise to anyone that I enjoy studing human nature. I also greatly enjoy discussing it. The title article will probably kick off a touch of an arguement.

It should be noted that people who are not arguing with logic and facts but with venom and emotion will have their comments deleted.

Teasers here, whole article here.

1) Men ( Read more... )

human behavior, research, psychology, people are strange

Comments 19

faerie_writer September 26 2007, 20:00:54 UTC

LOL! I love #8! ;)

onyxhawke September 26 2007, 20:11:16 UTC

:-)

I'm still waiting for the backlash...

archangelbeth September 26 2007, 20:22:44 UTC

Among primate and nonprimate species, the degree of polygyny highly correlates with the degree to which males of a species are larger than females.

Hm. I think they should have emphasized the "harem structure" a bit harder -- it's not just that the male has many mates, but that he's trying to monopolize them and keep other males away. Cats are hardly monogamous, for instance, but there's not much difference between a male and female that I've seen. Heck, I've got a grown cat who's smaller than his mother! (And, in fact, they are using polygyny... somewhat incorrectly; when referring to non-humans, it does indeed include the housecat model of mating along with the deer or seal harems. At least according to dictionary.com, anyway.)

onyxhawke September 26 2007, 21:40:00 UTC

Domestic cats sure, but the differnece in size in lions for example can be almost double http://www.bigcatrescue.org/lion.htm :
Size and Appearance: Second only in size to the Siberian tiger among the felines, the lion is the largest carnivore in Africa, and the second largest feline predator in the world. Average males weigh 385-450 pounds, and females weigh 250-320 pounds.

or Amur/Siberian Tigershttp://www.amur.org.uk/art.shtml :
Weight of adult male: up to 800 lbs
Weight of adult female: up to 500 lbs
Length of adult male: up to 10 feet

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onyxhawke September 26 2007, 20:49:17 UTC

Funny thing is...

There's evidence that forceful women are (at least initially) attractive to most men. The basis for this being that a woman who is able to scream, holler, and kick is displaying good health and is hence reasonably fit for reproduction.

The difference between the forceful woman and the bitch being readily apparent.

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onyxhawke September 26 2007, 20:59:52 UTC

:-P

Attraction theory is quite possibly the least understood aspect of human behavior. Given how much people _lie_ about anything having to do with sex, and how messy language is, it's surprising we know as much as we do. Most of what we do know are general spieces wide constants, but what for example make _me_ attractive to one of a set of twins, and not the other?

xxn_o_b_o_d_yxx September 26 2007, 20:32:16 UTC

I'm going to sound like an idiot but...YOU WRITE GOOD.

Well.

Whatever.

onyxhawke September 26 2007, 20:54:02 UTC

Yes, that and at least 70,000 other words. :-P

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onyxhawke September 26 2007, 20:52:20 UTC

No kids at all, but more nieces than i care to count, not to mention a 4H Club full of sprats from 5 to 18. I try not to talk to females between 11 and 19... or at least the one I'm related too. :-)

As for the MC! I started hearing that at um, six... but then me and Mom are not much a like. By 12-14 she'd stopped saying it. It might have had something to do with my saying "At least then I'll understand them and stop trying to make them into someone they aren't."