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== Evolution of female neoteny ==
== Evolution of female neoteny ==


Men's attraction to neoteny and hence women's selection for neoteny may stem from the fact that men have been providers of resources throughout human history<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill_(Supplemental)#Women_were_historically_predominantly_involved_in_cooking_and_they_never_dominated_men</ref> and thus want to minimize the chances of investing in someone else's offspring (cuckoldry). Childish, submissive, and lower [[IQ]] women are easier to control. Gowaty (1992:231-40) writes:
Men's attraction to neoteny and hence selection of women ''for'' neoteny may stem from the fact that men have been providers of resources throughout human history<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill_(Supplemental)#Women_were_historically_predominantly_involved_in_cooking_and_they_never_dominated_men</ref> and thus want to minimize the chances of investing in someone else's offspring (cuckoldry). Childish, submissive, and lower [[IQ]] women are easier to control. Gowaty (1992:231-40) writes:


{{quote|There should be strong selection on males to control females' reproduction through direct coercive control of females […]. Evolutionary thinkers, whether informed by feminist ideas or not, are not surprised by one of the overwhelming facts of patriarchal cultures, namely that men […] seek to constrain and control the reproductive capacities of women […]. Juvenilization decreases the threat some men may feel when confronted with women; many men are comfortable around women whom they can clearly dominate and are profoundly uncomfortable around women whom they cannot so clearly dominate.<ref>https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1601&context=fchd_facpub</ref>}}
{{quote|There should be strong selection on males to control females' reproduction through direct coercive control of females […]. Evolutionary thinkers, whether informed by feminist ideas or not, are not surprised by one of the overwhelming facts of patriarchal cultures, namely that men […] seek to constrain and control the reproductive capacities of women […]. Juvenilization decreases the threat some men may feel when confronted with women; many men are comfortable around women whom they can clearly dominate and are profoundly uncomfortable around women whom they cannot so clearly dominate.<ref>https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1601&context=fchd_facpub</ref>}}
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