General status of gender relations vs. Quibbles, was Re: MistressJudith (was Re: Butler on S]

[Rakesh Bhandari]

>Take the general point. Avoid silly quibbles, and go on from
>there. In our society older men marry younger women and
>older women don't marry younger men. That is the politically
>significant proposition,

Oh no Carrol, it's a sociobiological--oops, I mean evolutionary
psychological--proposition.


>Take a look at one of the newspaper columns that have been
>appearing lately claiming that wives beat husbands too. See
>how stupid they look.

Why this remains the exception is a fave topic for the evolutionary
psychologists.

rb