In the last decade, “hypergamy theory” has become the default explanation for women’s preference for high-status men. In its evolutionary form, the theory argues that ancestral women who secured higher-resource mates improved their children’s survival through better nutrition, safer environments, and greater parental investment. If true, female status preference should be tightly linked to reproductive …
Hypergamy: an evolutionary norm, or exaggerated by cultural narcissism?
Further to our previous post on Stargate, we now learn that the venerable SciFi franchise of Doctor Who has been cancelled (again). Doctor Who first appeared on British TV screens the day after the assassination of JFK in 1963. The initial episode was actually rebroadcast as week later as many had skipped watching it in …
Stargate was a successful TV franchise, based on the well known movie of the same name, that ran from 1997 to 2011. An attempt to produce a new Stargate series involving many of the original creators was recently axed. This is a video by Youtuber Nerdrotic in which the axing of the series is discussed. …
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Mike Buchanan has launched a new initiative, Men Stop Drinking. The video below has Mike and Paul Elam discuss the initative.
Jon Gunnarson makes the case that affirmative action programs, however well-intended, often do more harm than good. No matter who’s supposed to benefit or who’s supposed to be privileged or underprivileged.
The following article provides an example of a ‘threat narrative’ – i.e., in this case the threat that chivalry is departed or dying, thus putting women in danger in a myriad ways. The ‘Chivalry Is Dead’ trope has been wheeled out by every newspaper and media outlet for the last two centuries, on a weekly …
