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Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:00 AM

Dudes try "dating Darwinism"

An author argues that angry young men are becoming assholes to try to get women.

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  • Friday, November 21, 2008 07:10 PM

    Still from the way you describe the (sexual) imbalance

    (leaving aside whether it is simply 'less' or 'much less' -- this is a subjective issue I think) it would seem to be an unavoidable consequence of hormonal differences and thus not to be blamed on anyone or complained about. Rather men should concentrate on giving women what they want so as to get from them what they want--and that would be a normal transaction, under the laws of offer and demand, and nobody would have to complain about how unfair life is to them. Or am I getting something wrong? (Of course, I think we're leaving a whole universe of emotional/psychological/maturity/growth issues aside, but then again this was a precondition to basing the discussion only on the imbalance/asymmetry that you see between men's and women's sexual impulses).

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