This is the second installment in the "real gender studies" series. It follows the one below:
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At the start of the Neolithic (around 10 000 years BC), mankind shifted from the hunter-gatherer lifestyle to farming.
In the previous OP, we had compared the average kilo-calories brought back to camp by men and women in a paleolithic context. Here is what the curve becomes in the Neolithic.
In the paleolithic, men pursued a pure high-risk/high-return food gathering strategy (hunting) while women pursued a pure low-risk/low-return one (gathering plant food)
In the Neolithic, most men have converted to a medium-risk/medium-return strategy (farming) while the most talented men still pursue a pure high-risk/high-return one (hunting, increasingly supplemented by pillaging). Women are cooperating with farming men and have also raised their output on account of the superior efficiency of farming. The result is a significant food surplus. Population shoots up.
All this is well known and (relatively) uncontroversial.
Now the real kicker is this: how did this happen ? What force made the changes possible ?
The most likely explanation is the switch to farming occurred as a byproduct of the "feasts of merit" organized by men-only ritual associations. These are believed to be the origins of the megalithic monuments like Stonehenge or Göbekli Tepe
The male-only associations who built these monuments were able to impose a new sexual distribution order on their own members. The alpha-male accepted to grant a woman to each non-alpha member in exchange for the support of all males in prestige-building projects. It might also have happened the other way around: all non-alpha males ganging up on the alpha to demand a female for themselves and offering to build a monument in exchange to increase the alpha's prestige.
Whichever way it happened, it was the beginning of monogamy.
Women accepted the new order for 2 reasons:
Of course, a woman's orgasms will always be better when she is fucked by the alpha-chad, but having your own mini-alpha in your own house was an acceptable substitute. The extra food made it well worth it.
This is why, in farming societies, arose the idea that the "virtuous woman" is the one who is content with her husband and foregoes the allure of the alpha.
Real Gender Studies 101 - The Paleolithic
From around 2 millions years ago to 10 000 years ago, humans have led roughly the same lifestyle: hunting and gathering. Given the length of time we have lived that way, it is quite clear that it is that lifestyle that determined how we evolved. All of our instincts were shaped by this period...
incels.is
At the start of the Neolithic (around 10 000 years BC), mankind shifted from the hunter-gatherer lifestyle to farming.
In the previous OP, we had compared the average kilo-calories brought back to camp by men and women in a paleolithic context. Here is what the curve becomes in the Neolithic.
In the paleolithic, men pursued a pure high-risk/high-return food gathering strategy (hunting) while women pursued a pure low-risk/low-return one (gathering plant food)
In the Neolithic, most men have converted to a medium-risk/medium-return strategy (farming) while the most talented men still pursue a pure high-risk/high-return one (hunting, increasingly supplemented by pillaging). Women are cooperating with farming men and have also raised their output on account of the superior efficiency of farming. The result is a significant food surplus. Population shoots up.
All this is well known and (relatively) uncontroversial.
Now the real kicker is this: how did this happen ? What force made the changes possible ?
The most likely explanation is the switch to farming occurred as a byproduct of the "feasts of merit" organized by men-only ritual associations. These are believed to be the origins of the megalithic monuments like Stonehenge or Göbekli Tepe
The male-only associations who built these monuments were able to impose a new sexual distribution order on their own members. The alpha-male accepted to grant a woman to each non-alpha member in exchange for the support of all males in prestige-building projects. It might also have happened the other way around: all non-alpha males ganging up on the alpha to demand a female for themselves and offering to build a monument in exchange to increase the alpha's prestige.
Whichever way it happened, it was the beginning of monogamy.
Women accepted the new order for 2 reasons:
- The new food strategy benefited them and their offspring as a result of higher food abundance.
- Most men had accepted a food-gathering strategy that was less risky than pure hunting and with which risk-averse women felt reasonably comfortable.
- Each woman now had her own "dominant" male (her husband) and could therefore trick her sexual instincts into giving her an orgasm.
Of course, a woman's orgasms will always be better when she is fucked by the alpha-chad, but having your own mini-alpha in your own house was an acceptable substitute. The extra food made it well worth it.
This is why, in farming societies, arose the idea that the "virtuous woman" is the one who is content with her husband and foregoes the allure of the alpha.
[UWSL]...They must've been ahead of the game and knew Corona bullshit was coming hundreds of years ago 
