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At the very least it suggests that a macho proclivity for overconsumption can somehow be traced to women's appreciation of such things.
Macho-ness and consumption are only tangentially related. Lots of things macho guys do can be argued to be less wasteful of energy too.
I know, there's nothing like inflammatory rhetoric to get one's point across.
Since when is speaking truth inflammatory unless some people do not want to hear truth?
As someone else said, men do everything they have to do to get attractive women to pay attention to them, not to get feminists to pay attention to them, but attractive women.
If women did not constantly choose certain men with certain traits doing certain things, that game would change very quickly.
The problem is women do not want to lift a finger to change anything in their lives, not their choices in their own lives and not their choices in men.
They like certain things in their men and nothing will stop this.
So THE DESIRABLE FEMALES (the ones the most guys tend to lust for) tend to choose certain types of men doing certain things. All other men then imitate as faithfully as they can the behavior and habits of those men who the women already selected.
What part of science and logic and statistics and psychology do women not understand about all of this?
Look around Texas, Hummer and big pickup driving clods ALWAYS have the hot woman in the passenger seat.
What part of REALITY do women refuse to understand? I know, I know, women are supposed to be portrayed as professional victims at all times. Life is supposed to be about blaming men for everything. I am sure someone can make an argument that women spending too much money on useless wasteful things is ALSO somehow men's fault.
To be fair, married men and others not seeking approval from the opposite sex certainly have less incentive to do or act a certain way, so they are also to blame for excess energy use.
