MatureDJ
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I have a theory about this. The proverbial hunter-gatherer evolutionary social system produced women to be very competitive about securing the high value male when at the proper age (i.e., starting at sexual maturity, and ending a few years later before the woman becomes an old maid at age 20. :yes
Then after the pair bonding has been sorted out and the women get on to the job of pumping out babies, the women need to be sociable with their former adversaries so as to assist each other in the duties of child rearing, making clothes, etc. (This could even be extended to sharing the duties of supplying milk to the babies - my grandfather had stories of how one particular buxom woman was more or less the dedicated milk provider for the village's kids. ) And they needed to be especially sociable so that they could keep their men faithful, with the idea that friends wouldn't want to steal a man.
Thus women have been designed to be mean to each other during adolescence - with the attendant social stratification, dividing up the "cool" kids from the outcasts - so as to present themselves as the most worthy of attention from the equally "cool" men. And later in life, they have needed to band together so as to enforce sexual stability, with its attendant shaming memes to keep their men in line.
What do you think?
I have a theory about this. The proverbial hunter-gatherer evolutionary social system produced women to be very competitive about securing the high value male when at the proper age (i.e., starting at sexual maturity, and ending a few years later before the woman becomes an old maid at age 20. :yes
Then after the pair bonding has been sorted out and the women get on to the job of pumping out babies, the women need to be sociable with their former adversaries so as to assist each other in the duties of child rearing, making clothes, etc. (This could even be extended to sharing the duties of supplying milk to the babies - my grandfather had stories of how one particular buxom woman was more or less the dedicated milk provider for the village's kids. ) And they needed to be especially sociable so that they could keep their men faithful, with the idea that friends wouldn't want to steal a man.Thus women have been designed to be mean to each other during adolescence - with the attendant social stratification, dividing up the "cool" kids from the outcasts - so as to present themselves as the most worthy of attention from the equally "cool" men. And later in life, they have needed to band together so as to enforce sexual stability, with its attendant shaming memes to keep their men in line.
What do you think?