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Tracy Clark-Flory on a new finding that reminds us that women have long been the spoils of war.
  • Women love it

    Women are hardly passive in this game. Women love to be competed for and they have of course benefited ever since evolution developed sexual reproduction.

    Competition will always be necessary, though that this continues today seems a mild perversity. I have often noted firsthand that women need to bring their rivals together. Almost without fail, my current particular object of desire/girlfriend will eventually have maneuvered me and her other admirerer or ex into a room together, then sit back and enjoy the interaction. What has been notable to me was the identical barely suppressed glee of the one who arranged the set-up.