[lbo-talk] Language of Contempt

[Angelus Novus]

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. 

Actually, Mile's point number "2" is a standard among
sociobiologists.  What Miles is describing here is a
variation on the Cuckold argument.

So I would like to second Joanna's
"Absofuckinglutely!"


:-)

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