[lbo-talk] Language of Contempt

ravi gadfly at exitleft.org
Sun Jun 4 16:37:51 PDT 2006


At around 4/6/06 7:11 pm, joanna wrote:
> Miles Jackson wrote:
>
>> The fact that sociobiologists overlook
>> these plausible evolutionary reasons for female
>> promiscuity and exaggerate the evolutionary reasons for
>> male promiscuity provides another example of how existing
>> theories of evolutionary psychology are based on social norms
>> (here, gender standards) rather than a rigorous and logical
>> application of the principles of evolutionary theory.
>
> Absofuckinglutely!
>

[not been following this thread]

Didn't a recent survey in the West (not that things are different, necessarily in the East) come up with the result that 30% or more of children are not fathered by the husband of the mother?

--ravi

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