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Re: Female monkeys use wile to rally troops

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Nov 24, 2016, 12:07 AM UTC

scandox wrote: post #83

raducu wrote: post #43

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The joke is we're primates too, and human females do this all of the time, you can see this in the motif of two heros(one "good" and the other "bad") fighting for a female, "golddigger" being most of the time attributed to the female, to the psychological game called "Rapo" where a female entices a particular male's attention so that another male would fight the first male, and so an and so on. The joke is believing…

You know I could be tricksy but I'll answer you straight. Even if I thoroughly believed the rather reductive propositions you make about male/female biology, I would still disagree with your conclusions. You seem to want it both ways: you assert men are naturally violent, women are naturally manipulative, therefore we should accept this state of affairs and not be dishonest about it. At the same time you want us to r…

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Re: Female monkeys use wile to rally troops

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Post by bootload » Thu, Nov 24, 2016, 11:00 PM UTC

daemin wrote: post #66

bootload wrote: post #9

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"... few animals other than humans and monkeys engage in it" Birds, ants, killer-whales are but a few I can immediately think of.

There's fighting to survive against a predator, there's fighting competitors for mating access, and then there's fighting between groups of the same animals. They mean that it's the third option that is rare among animals.

"then there's fighting between groups of the same animals."

have you not seen same animals fighting in groups against each other? Take your point though.

Re: Female monkeys use wile to rally troops

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Post by dang » Fri, Nov 25, 2016, 7:21 PM UTC

hashmap wrote: post #158

dang wrote: post #135

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That's pure sample bias. You can support anything that way. Which is not to say that this thread isn't bullshit.

When individual comments on Reddit or HN get voted up, they cease to be sample bias and become a reflection of the community's opinion. That's what these sites do . I guarantee you'd never see a comment like that voted up on r/2xc. It's a clear indication of a problem with the community, and there's no way you don't see that...?

Sorry I was late to seeing this.

That's still sample bias: plenty of such comments also get downvoted, and plenty of opposite comments also get upvoted. Drawing general conclusions about the community in this way is projection.