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Women evolved to be dependent on men's resources<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill_(Supplemental)#Women_were_historically_predominantly_involved_in_cooking_and_they_never_dominated_men</ref> due to sex differences in [[Bateman's principle|parental investment]] leading to an evolutionary arms race among men competing for reproductive opportunities and thus evolving to be taller, stronger and more capable. | Women evolved to be dependent on men's resources<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill_(Supplemental)#Women_were_historically_predominantly_involved_in_cooking_and_they_never_dominated_men</ref> due to sex differences in [[Bateman's principle|parental investment]] leading to an evolutionary arms race among men competing for reproductive opportunities and thus evolving to be taller, stronger and more capable. | ||
Men's attraction to neoteny and hence selection of women for neoteny may stem from the fact that women can be certain is their's but men cannot, hence evolved to [[paternity assurance| | Men's attraction to neoteny and hence selection of women for neoteny may stem from the fact that women can be certain is their's but men cannot, hence evolved to [[paternity assurance|desire certainty about their paternity]]. Moreover, being providers of resources, men have extra incentive to minimize the chances of investing in someone else's offspring. 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>}} | ||