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Re: Female monkeys use wile to rally troops

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Post by saiya-jin »

scandox wrote: post #29
gspetr wrote: post #16

Males have evolved to extract resources from the environment. Females have evolved to extract resources from males.

I think by removing the word "monkey" you have opened yourself up to a charge of inaccuracy. After all, I'm going to hazard a guess that this is not true of all males of all species. Now some cynical people might think that you removed the word monkey in order to map this research onto humans, in order to make a point. While I'm sure that's not the case, I think it's worthwhile to recall many other evolved qualities…

you don't get this joke, do you (yes, it's mostly for guys but not only, and no it's not completely hypothetical)

Re: Female monkeys use wile to rally troops

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Post by scandox »

saiya-jin wrote: post #31
scandox wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think by removing the word "monkey" you have opened yourself up to a charge of inaccuracy. After all, I'm going to hazard a guess that this is not true of all males of all species. Now some cynical people might think that you removed the word monkey in order to map this research onto humans, in order to make a point. While I'm sure that's not the case, I think it's worthwhile to recall many other evolved qualities…

you don't get this joke, do you (yes, it's mostly for guys but not only, and no it's not completely hypothetical)

I'd be very interested in your explanation of the joke. Please elaborate in as much detail as you can.

Re: Female monkeys use wile to rally troops

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Post by kochthesecond »

bjourne wrote: post #15
cjcenizal wrote: post #5

Willingness to fight seems to be a successful genetic trait for them. If you don't fight, your troop starves. I don't think "manipulation" has anything to do with it... if the troop doesn't pass on successful genes, the troop dies. So of course the fighters are the ones that mate!

Well, shunning fighting is also a successful trait or else the male monkeys wouldn't be doing it. A good strategy for them is perhaps to appears as if they are a great fighters but in reality back down from most dangerous fights.

Live to multiply another day

Re: Female monkeys use wile to rally troops

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Post by DanielleMolloy »

gcp wrote: post #28
DanielleMolloy wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I made a statement about HN's worrying MRA hive that doesn't appear to see any problem with this top comment, but with mine (btw, you prove my point too).

I'm sure there's quite a few people who think the OP is terribly offensive, and are appalled at the insinuation it wouldn't be downvoted or moderated. Edit: The fact that your post got flagged faster than the OP on the other hand does reinforce your point and reflects very badly on HN.

I know that plenty of these people exist. But the anti-fem crowd outweighs them right now, once more. At least when looking at these votes. This is worrying since, after all, this shapes the discussion, the atmosphere here and the minds of people with yet to stabilize opinions.

Re: Female monkeys use wile to rally troops

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Post by gcp »

DanielleMolloy wrote: post #35
gcp wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sure there's quite a few people who think the OP is terribly offensive, and are appalled at the insinuation it wouldn't be downvoted or moderated. Edit: The fact that your post got flagged faster than the OP on the other hand does reinforce your point and reflects very badly on HN.

I know that plenty of these people exist. But the anti-fem crowd outweighs them right now, once more. At least when looking at these votes. This is worrying since, after all, this shapes the discussion, the atmosphere here and the minds of people with yet to stabilize opinions.

I edited my post. You were, however unfortunately, completely right.

Re: Female monkeys use wile to rally troops

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Post by Chris2048 »

DanielleMolloy wrote: post #26
lazzlazzlazz wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're going to be downvoted for a troll-y, baiting post that has no content. Being downvoted will not validate your hypothesis.

I made a statement about HN's worrying MRA hive that doesn't appear to see any problem with this top comment, but with mine (btw, you prove my point too).

If you have a problem with the post, state what it is. Bashing HN for whatever "hive" you see it containing is baiting.
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