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Due to sex differences in [[Bateman's principle|parental investment]], women evolved to be passive and choosy, and men evolved to be taller and stronger than women in an evolutionary arms race among men competing for reproductive opportunities. As a result, women became 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]], women evolved to be passive and choosy, and men evolved to be taller and stronger than women in an evolutionary arms race among men competing for reproductive opportunities. As a result, women became 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> | ||
As women bear the offspring, they can be certain their offspring is their's, different from men. As a result, men have 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. | As women bear the offspring, they can be certain their offspring is their's, different from men. As a result, men have 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. Men can best achieve this certainty by monopolizing girls as early as possible, preventing other men from impregnating them. Further men are expected to prefer childish, submissive and obedient women who are easy to control. Gowaty (1992) 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 p. 231-240</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 p. 231-240</ref>}} | ||
This selection | This may explain the phenomenon of hebephilia, i.e. the sexual interest in pubescent girls which affects 20% of men or more,<ref>https://www.ipce.info/sites/ipce.info/files/biblio_attachments/every_fifth.pdf</ref> and, as extreme instantiation of these adaptations, it may also explain the phenomenon of pedophilia, i.e. the sexual interest in prepubescent girls. | ||
Men's selection for paternity assurance may even have reduced women's [[Scientific Blackpill (Supplemental)#Women_have_a_slightly_lower_average_IQ_which_drastically_reduces_their_intellectual_output|spatial abilities]] as men would prefer women who are scared of getting lost, rather than ones who are nimble at navigating their ways to different men. It may also explain women's stronger [[homosexuality|same-sex attraction]] as men would have preferred their [[harem]] women to derive additional sexual pleasure from each other rather than from other men.<ref>https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=560351713504498712&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5 See section "Male Tolerance"</ref> | |||
== Artificial juvenilization == | == Artificial juvenilization == | ||