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Shyness is fundamentally an expression of low status as it is strongly (inversely) related to confidence. The entire notion of [[love shy|love-shyness]] can be seen as a confusion of the importance of social status with a narrow condition in matters of sexuality, offering questionable memes like [[antifragility|trauma]] as dubious explanation. | Shyness is fundamentally an expression of low status as it is strongly (inversely) related to confidence. The entire notion of [[love shy|love-shyness]] can be seen as a confusion of the importance of social status with a narrow condition in matters of sexuality, offering questionable memes like [[antifragility|trauma]] as dubious explanation. | ||
=== Bravery | === Bravery and stoicism === | ||
Bravery and war heroism appear to be male-specific dominance signals.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090513815000239</ref> Also [[stoicism]], i.e. the downplaying of hardship and disease is a way to maintain dominance, and women have plausibly selected men to have this trait, as men who showed weakness were more likely discarded by them.<ref>S G Brown. 2018. ''Female choice and male stoicism.'' [[https://www.ashdin.com/articles/female-choice-and-male-stoicism.pdf Abstract]]</ref> | Bravery and war heroism appear to be male-specific dominance signals.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090513815000239</ref> Also [[stoicism]], i.e. the downplaying of hardship and disease is a way to maintain dominance, and women have plausibly selected men to have this trait, as men who showed weakness were more likely discarded by them.<ref>S G Brown. 2018. ''Female choice and male stoicism.'' [[https://www.ashdin.com/articles/female-choice-and-male-stoicism.pdf Abstract]]</ref> | ||