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In reply to the discussion: No Job? No Date for You! [View all]ElboRuum
(4,717 posts)It is this idea that women are somehow "more evolved" than men are that is particularly ponderous. I mean, it makes no rational sense. How can one gender in a species evolve beyond the other either in an intellectual sense or in a biological sense without becoming themselves procreatively non-viable? If a child is the product of the genetic code of a male and a female, how could the "more evolved female" come to exist when clearly the "inferior genetic makeup" of the male must be devolving it on each successive generation?
Yet the implication is always there in the rhetoric. Women have more evolved sensibilities, and they choose mates for positive, non-objectifying, intellectually affirmative reasons, while men just want some objectified eye-candy that will give them the erections they need to have sex... disgusting, penetrative, invasive sex which degrades women by its very nature. The implication is that not only is attractiveness a despicable, objectifying, degrading way to choose a mate, but it the ONLY criterion with which males select, and therefore other things like intelligence, philosophy, a sense of humor, kindness, and the myriad of other positive qualities which men find pleasurable in the company of a mate never do enter into it.
It's not a double standard, it's just plain old self-gratifying bullshit.