I wonder, not really knowing for sure, whether the biological imperative plays into it at all. The deeply-entrenched need to procreate, to pass on one's genes. And the recognition, at some primal level, that women have an enormous amount of power to decide whether or not *your* genes get passed onward.
Women have an enormous amount of power in general, I think. It gets twisted and perverted and abused and denied. But I think that if women *didn't* have so much power, "the patriarchy" wouldn't go nearly so far out of their way to try to deny all that power from them.
Speaking as a member of the male gender, although I certainly hope I'm not one of those chest-thumping neanderthals, I can tell you that I'm quite honestly terrified of women. But I tend to deal with that by hiding, rather than by thumping my chest and making tasteless jokes.
In the classical dating scenario, the man is always the supplicant. Unless you're an Alpha Male, of which there are few, then your role in the game is to approach the woman and bare your throat before her, so that she may accept or deny your petition. Rejection can be a very powerful event, in that scenario. Especially when you run the whole thing through with sexual tension and the aforementioned biological imperative.
I ramble, because it's 1 AM, but I hope I contribute something useful to your theory.
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Date: 2007-05-12 08:16 am (UTC)Women have an enormous amount of power in general, I think. It gets twisted and perverted and abused and denied. But I think that if women *didn't* have so much power, "the patriarchy" wouldn't go nearly so far out of their way to try to deny all that power from them.
Speaking as a member of the male gender, although I certainly hope I'm not one of those chest-thumping neanderthals, I can tell you that I'm quite honestly terrified of women. But I tend to deal with that by hiding, rather than by thumping my chest and making tasteless jokes.
In the classical dating scenario, the man is always the supplicant. Unless you're an Alpha Male, of which there are few, then your role in the game is to approach the woman and bare your throat before her, so that she may accept or deny your petition. Rejection can be a very powerful event, in that scenario. Especially when you run the whole thing through with sexual tension and the aforementioned biological imperative.
I ramble, because it's 1 AM, but I hope I contribute something useful to your theory.