Mark Clayton

@arctotherium42 @akhivae If the man carried the heavy load, he would be physically compromised during a sudden ambush. Consequently, women were tasked with transporting household goods.

@arctotherium42 @akhivae A man rode a horse or donkey unburdened by cargo so that his hands and body were completely free to react instantly, draw a weapon (such as the traditional kinzhal dagger seen at his waist), and defend his family.

Crazy that feminism convinced women that working in an office is better than this.

@lymanstoneky Relative risks rise with paternal age, but absolute risks stay low. Autism risk shifts from ~1.5% (dads in 20s) to ~1.6% (40s) to ~2.6% (50s). Since the vast majority of kids are fine, discouraging older men from having children makes little sense.

It’s not even true, male fertility does decline, and birth defects rise with paternal age

@robinhanson @Evolving_Moloch Patriarchy enhances male reproductive success by restricting female agency & bodily autonomy. Paradoxically, it also increases women's reproductive success, though at the direct expense of their personal freedom.

@Evolving_Moloch Even if it benefits men over women, patriarchy seems to have been pretty adaptive to appear so consistently across past societies.

Patriarchy is a massive blind spot for many evolutionary psychologists because they think only in terms of sexual selection and assume individual men should always be in competition with other men, but when you understand cultural evolution and the importance of norms and norm psychology it makes perfect sense. In fact, even from a purely individual fitness perspective it should be easy to understand. Norms of coercive arranged marriage and polygyny, casual wife beating, male control of space and resources, etc can be strongly in all or nearly all individual male interests even if it comes at the expense of their wives, daughters, sisters, etc. Low status men can benefit from having a wife when they otherwise might have none, high status men can benefit from multiple wives, men as a whole can benefit from increased ability to mate guard through violence, I mean there’s dozens of ways the logic can go for why all or nearly all men would endorse coercive patriarchal norms, and our evolved norm psychology leads people to commonly adopt and perpetuate the norms of their society. This EP argument that keeps getting repeated that intrasexual conflict makes patriarchy impossible is bizarre. We have abundant ethnographic evidence of men consciously using gang rape as a way to control women.

@sugabelly @Evolving_Moloch Modern society is clearly not a patriarchy, and there is no reason to believe that it benefits men at the expense of women.

@Evolving_Moloch I believe many people are programmed to deny it, and the denial is part of the mechanism of ensuring patriarchy continues to benefit men as a group. Even women can’t escape this tendency as we grow up inside the grooming atmosphere of patriarchal societies.

@giveashitnature Practical reasons to avoid feeding are strong in many places: overcrowding, droppings, algae, aggression & cleanup costs. But the claim that feeding bread causes angel wing in wild birds lacks rigorous evidence. skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/4374…

That bread you're tossing to the ducks malnourishes the adults and can leave the babies unable to fly for the rest of their lives. Bread is junk food for a duck. It fills them up so they quit foraging for the bugs, plants, and seeds that actually feed them. In a growing duckling, a diet that heavy in empty carbs makes the wing grow too fast and twist at the joint. The feathers jut out sideways, the wing never works right, and the bird is grounded for good. It's called angel wing, and in an adult it can't be undone. It doesn't stop at the birds. A pond where people dump bread gets crowded and aggressive, ducklings never learn to find their own food, and the soggy leftovers rot into algae blooms and draw rats. If you want to feed them, give them food, not filler: cracked corn, oats, halved grapes, chopped lettuce, a handful of thawed peas. Better yet, just watch them. A healthy pond already feeds its ducks. They were doing fine before the bread showed up.

@iszie22 @CovfefeAnon @LizzyStarrrdust There’s a correlation between a higher partner count and sex drive in women, but to say they’re synonymous is a reach. A lot of women sleep with guys for attention, money, or other benefits, rather than because they have a high sex drive.

@CovfefeAnon @LizzyStarrrdust Thats synonymous with 'not low libido'

It's interesting to me what an incredible lack of theory of mind these guys have. I mean, idk but would you consider a man who is attractive, 6'2", 140's IQ, highly skilled and emotionally balanced a "high value man?" Because that's who I'm talking about in the context of my experience with LTR's. You can't see outside your own bubble.

@sweetbabyruski @RealPaulElam @MeghanEMurphy There were fewer single men. There were also things like the conjugal rights doctrine, which held that women had an obligation to sleep with their husbands. If that still existed, maybe married guys wouldn't be the biggest consumers of porn.

@RealPaulElam @MeghanEMurphy Oh no, whatever did you men do for the first 99.9999999999% of humanity when porn didn’t exist (not counting cave drawings of naked ppl bc that’s obviously not the same)

I'm not threatened by pornography, I feel sorry for those girls. Because I see them as human, and I don't enjoy watching humans be degraded, abused, disrespected, and dehumanized. Those girls have incredibly low self-esteem... x.com/RealPaulElam/s…

@wil_da_beast630 'Putting women on a pedestal' is the textbook definition of benevolent sexism. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with being dominant towards a partner. Here are the items used to measure it:

Probably. "Most women like non-abusive doms" is not a very controversial statement. Men who think being normally masculine is sinful will not be very attractive.

@T030541 Men can only be as promiscuous as women allow them to be, meaning every male outlier is balanced by a female one. While prostitution has always existed, a lot of men can now have casual sex without spending money on a prostitute thanks to feminism liberating women.

@T030541 Straight men don’t actually have higher average body counts or more extreme outliers than women. That’s an illusion: surveys include gay/bi men & miss sex workers while capturing their clients. Adjust for that & the gender gap disappears.

feminism hasn't caused women to sleep w 80 men you retard. 75% of american women aged 25-49 have a single digit "BC", despite fairly low promiscuity stigma. you're resorting to extreme outlier e.gs to try to own the foids. very desperate x.com/IterIntellectu…

@valcsby @RichardHanania @KirkegaardEmil If it doesn’t cause injury or an STI, it’s harmless, but that doesn’t mean it should be trivialized. Anal rape carries a higher risk of injury than vaginal or oral rape, and it’s also deeply humiliating.

@RichardHanania @KirkegaardEmil Dude dumb ass take. Emil specified that the rape is unpleasant and probably involves penetration. Ofc it's harmful.

Would you rather be cuckolded or raped? Cuckolded meaning that you aren't actually the father of the child you think is yours. Assume that the rape is going to be quite unpleasant, possibly gay.

@tina_selenah @Michelasso2 @dvorstone Men dominate crime, gambling & suicide because they're far more risk-tolerant & status objects, not emotionally weaker. Crime is a high-risk/high-reward reproductive strategy tied to greater fertility via multiple partners. It's immoral, not irrational. doi.org/10.1016/j.evol…

@Michelasso2 @dvorstone Men r emotionally weaker which is y they dominate crime, gambling, suicide… all the emotional/irrational decisions people could make r dominated by men. Countries w more female leaders have better outcomes. If it wasn’t for feminist the world would be as shitty as it was in 1960

Male rage against women is real, and has one primary cause: Being deemed unworthy. Modern males are saturated in women's judgment like no other in history. Women judge. Men have to respond to that judgement. Either it lacks merit and can be dismissed or it has merit and has to be taken seriously. The problem of modernity is that men suffer this judgment in volume. A modern man who obsesses with women can find himself being rejected countless times daily, even in his own mind. A man who sleeps around successful still finds himself dealing with excessive women's judgment. Both encourage men to hating women. This is why whenever a woman voices a criticism of men, no matter how reasonable, it invites excessive hostility. For a lot of men, it's "triggering." The same thing happens when I criticize men... instead of considering what I have to say, a lot of men have a defensive reflex, immediately scoffing and dismissing my assessment with hostile or sarcastic statements like "it's always the man's fault. Women are never wrong." Modern men are increasingly thin-skinned, especially regarding women. Part of the problem is that keeping one's composure and assessing women's judgment seriously isn't a universal behavior. It's mostly a trait of northern Europeans. Most men, globally, react to women's judgement with anger as if her rejection or criticism is an afront to their honor. The degree to which this behavior is an ethnic trait isn't clear but it's definitely a factor.

@tina_selenah @Michelasso2 @dvorstone The "female leaders = better outcomes" trope is a myth. Post-1960s progress was driven by markets, tech & medicine, not feminism. Men built civilization by taking the very irrational risks you pathologize. Modern prosperity was earned through that male drive, not in spite of it.

@FelonSkunk37088 @stephbjork @theguiltlessman @helenlewis @mattyglesias @TheAtlantic That logic applies to every discrimination claim. We can never 'prove' bias in policing, hiring, or college admissions b/c unknown factors might explain it. Even so, criminal history and recidivism risk don't explain the sentencing gap. That's proven. legalnews.com/Home/Articles?…

@cloeil @stephbjork @theguiltlessman @helenlewis @mattyglesias @TheAtlantic It's always a tell when someone uses a screenshot rather than a link. It's not debunked at all. Starr herself admitted it's not possible to “prove” gender discrimination, because it is always possible that two seemingly similar cases could differ in ways not captured by the data.

Beyond the ragebait of the manosphere lies a group of thinkers who want to turn back the clock on feminism. Far from being a fringe belief system, masculinism has become the single most important force uniting the American right. My latest for @TheAtlantic

@FelonSkunk37088 @stephbjork @theguiltlessman @helenlewis @mattyglesias @TheAtlantic Oh, please. Spare me the "recidivism" cop-out—that myth is thoroughly debunked. Men receive 63% longer sentences than women on avg, even after controlling for criminal history (the key recidivism proxy) Other factors like caregiving roles explain less than half of the gap.

@cloeil @stephbjork @theguiltlessman @helenlewis @mattyglesias @TheAtlantic Feminism supports registering women for the draft, but sadly men control the US government. Crime sentencing factors in things like recidivism & mitigating circumstances, which are starkly different between male & female offenders. Logic, dude. Try it sometime.

@FelonSkunk37088 @stephbjork @theguiltlessman @helenlewis @mattyglesias @TheAtlantic There is no consensus among feminists on drafting women. Women are the majority of voters (higher turnout than men since 1980). If men 'control' the government, they're the ones women keep electing to do their bidding.

@stephbjork @theguiltlessman @helenlewis @mattyglesias @TheAtlantic Except registering for the draft and getting equal sentences for the same crimes.

@theguiltlessman @helenlewis @mattyglesias @TheAtlantic Feminism is the idea that women should have all the rights of men. That’s it.

@CJFerguson1111 @FamStudies NSFG (larger CDC survey) shows clearer increases: male past-year sexlessness rose from ~9% (2013-15) to 24% (2022-23); virginity more than doubled, from ~4% to ~10%. Female rates also up. ifstudies.org/blog/sexless-a…