Letters to the Editor
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I would beat up some guy for you Tracy, just tell me who.
I think it must be hardwired. After all, in nature most male mammals fight over reproductive females. I don't think out ancestors would purposely imitate another species. We are just as wild as the next ape, we just pretend to be civil half the time.
I can remember being in fourth grade and fantasizing about fighting my presumed enemies and rescuing the girl I had a crush on. Then making a get away by stealing my uncles Monte Carlo SS. Of course he would understand, he is a guy.
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Peacocks show feathers, Rams butt heads, Mormons cast out their young males, etc.
This is all part of evolution's fun game.
P.S. Cab, I'll kick your ass.
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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.
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SIMPLY PUT -- MEN ARE CARNIVORES ----- BETTY RUBBLE = LAMBCHOPS = YUMMIE !!
One particular (less-than-poignant) scene from "QUEST FOR FIRE" sized up neatly the 'spoils-of-war' situation that had been communicated between Our Early Forefathers & Foremothers.
Dog afficianado, Desmond Morris, is the sole living authority on how the 2 sexes actually parted ways in those far away Days of Yore -- explaining, for instance, why the Girlies like to hang out at Malls & paint their Lips with Brite Red Lipstick - - - (!!)
Meanwhile, much water has passed under the bridge in the long choo-choo ride of evolution. Ever paranoid of Bigger Fishies, we (as Little Fishies) placed an eyeball on either side of Our Being, so as to gain a 360' scope of defense. --- Later, while scampering out of the Sludge in pursuit of Meat & Mates, said eyeballs darted ever-forward. The rest is history.
But The Story is far from finished - - - While the b'hoys have molted away the de facto deadweight of Mammary Glands, they will still need another 60k to 70k years to do away with the superfluous 'nipples'.
The success or failure of passing our habits along to our mates is certain to be an ongoing preoccupation. It was Heraclitus, some 2,500 years ago, that explained that "Tension" between Opposites is the Eternal Condition of the Universe --- a Tension that serves to establish "Reality" as it is -- and always will be --
Brace Thyself Betty --- Here we Come !!