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Culture War Roundup for the week of October 20, 2025

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Have you read what Andrews wrote ?

One book that helped me put the pieces together was Warriors and Worriers: The Survival of the Sexes by psychology professor Joyce Benenson. She theorizes that men developed group dynamics optimized for war, while women developed group dynamics optimized for protecting their offspring. These habits, formed in the mists of prehistory, explain why experimenters in a modern psychology lab, in a study that Benenson cites, observed that a group of men given a task will “jockey for talking time, disagree loudly,” and then “cheerfully relay a solution to the experimenter.” A group of women given the same task will “politely inquire about one another’s personal backgrounds and relationships … accompanied by much eye contact, smiling, and turn-taking,” and pay “little attention to the task that the experimenter presented.”

The point of war is to settle disputes between two tribes, but it works only if peace is restored after the dispute is settled. Men therefore developed methods for reconciling with opponents and learning to live in peace with people they were fighting yesterday. Females, even in primate species, are slower to reconcile than males. That is because women’s conflicts were traditionally within the tribe over scarce resources, to be resolved not by open conflict but by covert competition with rivals, with no clear terminus.

All of these observations matched my observations of wokeness, but soon the happy thrill of discovering a new theory eventually gave way to a sinking feeling. If wokeness really is the result of the Great Feminization, then the eruption of insanity in 2020 was just a small taste of what the future holds. Imagine what will happen as the remaining men age out of these society-shaping professions and the younger, more feminized generations take full control.

Do you truly think we are blank slates disconnected from our biology ? How then do you account for the extreme similarity of social institutions among primitive tribes ? There is no evidence of a matriarchal society - only ever matrilineal. Every known human society has marriage and jealousy. And so on.

If you took all the women out, I suspect the men that remain would act, by Andrews’ lights, like a bunch of girls.

Only if they were the kind of men who buy perfume and engage in what used to be called sodomy.

Yes, no, not necessarily, respectively.

Do you truly think we are blank slates disconnected from our biology ?

No kidding, that's what you believe? That we're some sort of quasi-rational agents not biased by millions of years of mammalian psychology ?

What a strange thing to say. Didn’t I answer “no” there?

If you’re looking for an opportunity to be offended, then I can’t really help you.

Being too terse has its risks.

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