Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/07/29/is-this-hosts-take-on-women-creepy-weird-or-both.html
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It’s 120% both.
What kind of a rock did this guy crawl from under?
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I’m shocked, shocked that evolutionary political science is every bit as reliable as evolutionary psychology.
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Can we add “reprehensible” to the list of options? Because I pick reprehensible.
Reading that quote made me nauseous.
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You only need to read two words to know that.
Daily Wire
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Anything but see women as people.
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wut. .
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women cannot take care of themselves.
All that blathering nonsense to get to this? I haven’t heard so much blustering in an attempt to prop up an obviously flawed premise since I attempted to read Mein Kampf.
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Back in the 70s and 80s he wrote some pretty good thrillers. Then, between one book and the next he started putting things like man lead marriages in his novels and they went to crap. I tried to assume that those were the ideas of his characters, but it just didn’t work. This is just the end of that slide into madness (not insanity, or bad mental health, just the incapacity to see reality).
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Wow, this guy uh… There’s a lot of things he doesn’t understand very well. Starting with silverback gorillas, who do live in polygamous harems, but that’s about where he stops understanding. Oh and men. And women, I’m willing to bet he doesn’t understand them well either.
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There are SO many things wrong with his ideas, but I have a hard time getting past the whole, “women are things to be distributed to the populace (men).” Not much energy left to counter any of his other shit-takes.
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Not weird. Some people are a bit different than others and it’s not usually anything to hold against them. But that’s not what this is.
Because this is frankly a very standard view where women are resources to be used and men are agents that use them, and everything is about the strong and the weak. It’s at the heart of all kinds of fascism, and of course it’s creepy and stupid, because fascism is creepy and stupid. It deserves every condemnation it can get.
But it’s not at all weird. It’s disgustingly mainstream, and that needs to be condemned too.
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It’s a particularly curious conclusion given that it comes just a paragraph after the explanation of how rule-by-the-strongest is inherently unstable because it motivates everyone who is losing out to collaborate on just killing the strongman.
Suddenly, and for reasons that definitely have nothing to do with motivated reasoning, the ability of men to collaborate on terminations of mutual interest is completely inapplicable to the case of women who need to deal with physically stronger men.
There is also, no doubt for reasons of purity of argument or something, no discussion of the fact that ‘strength’ only comes down to muscle mass and martial arts in special cases; since getting a knife in the eye while you sleep or catching a bullet is not really something you can just buff up and get tough your way out of.
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Are we sure that his first name isn’t Cliff? Because that’s who he sounds like with this rambling sexist nonsense.
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There will always be a man who can take me down no matter how much I train and work out (genetically there will be someone who is bigger than me). So by his logic everyone except the ultimate fighter should find themselves a man to keep themselves safe.
Where do these people live that they are constantly depending on their fighting skills to survive?
How does it even mesh with the fixation on protecting yourself with a gun? Muscle mass is rather ineffective against a gunshot wound.
I know there are a million other things dumb and wrong about his argument, but these aren’t even logical if you accept misogyny.
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“Ask not what you can do for women; ask what women can do for you!” Andrew Klavan.
The internet?
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No cos, err, see, a good smart guy could knife a bad tough guy in the eye to stop him stealing smart guy’s woman, and that would help propagate smart guy’s genes, or something. If a woman did that to her abusive bad guy husband, of course she’d be a murdering witch, but you gotta have SOME rules right??
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I’ve also understood the point JDV was trying to make, is that younger people have a disproportionate risk associated with political decisions as compared to older people; however if he was truly honest about it, the solution would actually be to weight an individual vote according to age so the vote of an 18 year old would count for more than the vote of a 90 year old; but this solution would decimate the Republican party, thus he comes up with the weight according to children which would disproportionally benefit middle aged/old people.
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Apparently, he sees them as objects for accumulation and apportionment.
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