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Feminism Is Dead. Take 4358. A Re-Posting.
These stories are as regular as a menstrual cycle, you know. And about as exciting. Feminism is dead so often that I wonder what kind of a zombie it must be to be able to die again and again.
Another interesting aspect of these stories is that they always focus on the upper class women, mostly white ones and with lots of education. Yet even such highly blessed women toss their careers into the corner! They did so in the early 2000s, they did so in the 1990s, and now they do it in 2013.
The novel aspect of these newest death throes is that the article mentions a famous evolutionary psychologist, David Buss, who firmly believes in the innateness of sex roles. You see, our prehistoric women suddenly don't seem to have been gatherers, after all, who might have provided most of the calories in that gathering/hunting mix but cavewives:
All those bachelors’ vows of future bathroom cleanings, it turns out, may be no more than a contemporary mating call. “People espouse equality because they conform to the current normative values of our culture,” says University of Texas evolutionary psychologist David Buss. “Any man who did not do so would alienate many women—yes, espousing values is partly a mating tactic, and this is just one example.” At least in one area, there’s scant penalty for this bait and switch. Last year, sociologists at the University of Washington found that the less cooking, cleaning, and laundry a married man does, the more frequently he gets laid.
Another interesting aspect of these stories is that they always focus on the upper class women, mostly white ones and with lots of education. Yet even such highly blessed women toss their careers into the corner! They did so in the early 2000s, they did so in the 1990s, and now they do it in 2013.
The novel aspect of these newest death throes is that the article mentions a famous evolutionary psychologist, David Buss, who firmly believes in the innateness of sex roles. You see, our prehistoric women suddenly don't seem to have been gatherers, after all, who might have provided most of the calories in that gathering/hunting mix but cavewives:
All those bachelors’ vows of future bathroom cleanings, it turns out, may be no more than a contemporary mating call. “People espouse equality because they conform to the current normative values of our culture,” says University of Texas evolutionary psychologist David Buss. “Any man who did not do so would alienate many women—yes, espousing values is partly a mating tactic, and this is just one example.” At least in one area, there’s scant penalty for this bait and switch. Last year, sociologists at the University of Washington found that the less cooking, cleaning, and laundry a married man does, the more frequently he gets laid.
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This female bodied person (whose brain and way of being are 90% stereotypically "masculine"
emphatically rejects his hypothesis.
If his precious little theory was true, I would not fucking exist. Nor would all the F-t-M transgender folks in the world. Nor would every other female bodied person who identifies as a woman, but does not fit into society's precious fucking mold for "feminine".
He can go pound sand.
My vagina and uterus are evidence that...
...I have a vagina and a uterus.
They are not my brain. They are not my spirit. They are not my heart and soul. They do not control my way of being in the world.
Full fucking stop.
This man has sex and gender woefully, hopelessly, profoundly confused.
