Machiavellianism (willingness to manipulate and deceive others), Narcissism (egotism and self-obsession), Psychopathy (the lack of remorse and empathy), Sadism (pleasure in the suffering of others)
Female monkeys use wile to rally troops
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Re: Female monkeys use wile to rally troops
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Please resist making comments about being downvoted. It never does any good, and makes boring reading. Also, avoid baiting users by announcing that you expect to be downvoted.
Please resist trying to teach other users.
This is completely off the subject but are you trying to indicate that he is somehow "man-splaining".
Educating readers as to the code of conduct of the site is required otherwise you would be downvoted without understanding why and just blaming it on "them bloody MRA's".
Re: Female monkeys use wile to rally troops
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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 all of the "Women are wonderful" effect, that there's a "rape culture", vilifying men and pedestalizing women, and all of the PC crap that dictates males and females think/feel and behave the same way and disregarding all of the obvious evolutionary and logical conclusions that males are predisposed to violence and females to manipulation in order to get what they want.
Re: Female monkeys use wile to rally troops
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Good trap. He totally fell for it!
Re: Female monkeys use wile to rally troops
#45Re: Female monkeys use wile to rally troops
#46Earlier 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).
If you have a problem with the post, state what it is. Bashing HN for whatever "hive" you see it containing is baiting.
It's a factual statement, not baiting, to observe that her comment was [flagged] instantly for containing a passing "downvoting" remark, while the original comment is still one of the highest voted comments in this thread.
This confirms that, indeed, the HN audience does not see any serious problems with the statement: "Females have evolved to extract resources from males.", which is exemplified by your request to state what the problem with it is.
Re: Female monkeys use wile to rally troops
#47This is just another way of securing the best genes for the next generation. Perhaps a much more sophisticate one.
Re: Female monkeys use wile to rally troops
#48Males have evolved to extract resources from the environment. Females have evolved to extract resources from males.
Second comment from the top, "Women are gold diggers."
Screencapping this for when HN's users claim they don't make the tech space awful for women.
Re: Female monkeys use wile to rally troops
#49Earlier 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, probably like a lot of others, took this post as a tongue-in-cheek joke. I think we're all mature enough to handle it, as the humour comes from how offensive the joke is and not from some universal truth behind the statement.
If it actually was meant as a serious comment and is being upvoted, then that's truly fucked up and would make me seriously question this forum. But I'm giving benefit of the doubt.
Re: Female monkeys use wile to rally troops
#50Willingness 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.
Fonzie was famous for (almost) never fighting while cultivating a reputation for a fierce fighter. Throughout the show, almost without exception, people would simply back down. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A-DCWlLfOQ