This explains a lot about why so many young men have latched onto this narrative - about being a leader, and how men protect and provide, etc. - Lorelei Weldon

…ury, Bateman’s ideas would be periodically reactivated like a virus by anxiety about social change. Wherever and whenever women were independent and in little need of being protected and provided for, the notion that they should passively choose the one most powerful male to safeguard and provision them, and all that it implied about femaleness versus maleness, would be aggressively promulgated by a range of scientists, writers, and politicians whose interests it served.
Evolutionary Psychology Gets Human Mating All Wrong
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This explains a lot about why so many young men have latched onto this narrative - about being a leader, and how men protect and provide, etc.
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Written by Lorelei Weldon382 Followers
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Student of human nature and advocate for a safer, saner, more love-infused world. If I read it, there’s a good chance I’ll leave a comment.
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