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Desert Kadir's avatar

"To be clear, little to none of this is conscious."

Bingo. There are hidden incentives to this game we play. I typically take the economic side of this discussion, but you do an excellent job of pointing toward the social mechanics at work.

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Billionaire Psycho's avatar

A true classic among FrogTwitter literature of the last decade.

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Alex Leong's avatar

Magisterial.

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Blugale's avatar

“Because placement in the male hierarchy is mostly earned while placement in the female hierarchy is mostly innate—"women are born valuable, men must become valuable””

Yeah that untrue, there is no indication in most societies that women are innately valued. On the contrary, it is the reverse men are more innately valued than women.

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Anonymous Dude's avatar

I basically always figured some version of this, but you made it systematic. Great job!

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DwarvenAllFather's avatar

No, just female nature unmasked

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