Courtship Behaviour in Humans and Other Species

[fare]

So as to fill my blog, I salvaged this old unpublished draft from my dustbin; I'm not sure I agree with all of it, but maybe it's food for thought for you, and you may come up with something better -- and maybe even something better that's well known for a long time by in evopsy circles.

Amongst humans, like in most species

Comments

If I understand correctly

[anonymous]

If I understand correctly, you're saying that socialism is responsible for my not being able to find a date? -- David

Re: If I understand correctly

[fare]

You don't understand correctly.

Re: If I understand correctly

[anonymous]

There you're making a statement about your ability to express yourself intelligibly. :-b
-- David

Re: If I understand correctly

[fare]

Well, first things, this article say nothing specific about fags like you.

Secondly, socialism has no specific role in this matter; it just does its usual effect of making everyone worse off and increasing actual iniquities on the pretense of eradicating vaguely conceived inequalities.

I guess instead of this blog entry, I ought just to have pointed to The Moral Animal and other books about evopsy.

[gustavolacerda]

Well, according to what you said, females should be BETTER off with socialism. They can simply fuck the sexiest men without worrying about whether he has money.

As for the attractiveness of REALLY rich men in welfare societies (such as the NL), it's perhaps due to the fact that (the female might reason that, or act hardwiredly as if) her male children will be attractively wealthy by inheritance.

But I would expect that our horniness is a pretty dumb heuristic (albeit reasonably effective).

Um general tone

[anonymous]

A good example of an evolutionary psychologist with a 'Just-So' story.