Sunday, August 29, 2010

Even More Evidence for Sexual
Evolutionary Pscyhology

Here's a number of interesting links supporting evolutionary psychology and its implications for sexual attraction. Ogling women is a natural reflex:
You're at a café with the woman in your life when your eyes move inexorably toward another woman walking by. In one-fifth of a second, before the conscious mind has had a chance to react, the male brain has rendered judgment on whether the oncoming stranger is sexually hot.

Pupils dilate, heart rate spikes, testosterone surges and the eyes assume a vacant stare — sure signs that the “man trance” has set in. For genetically preprogrammed men, the offence is as involuntary and natural as breathing, says brain researcher, neuropsychiatrist and author Louann Brizendine, whose book, The Male Brain, mounts a unique defence for such male indiscretions. The sexual pursuit area in the male brain is 2.5 times larger than the one in the female brain “consuming him with sexual fantasies about female body parts,” she concludes.
The author, an uncommon purveyor of truth in today's politically tinged academia, defends this male impulse:
“It's a reflex that's built into the brain circuits,” she said in an interview. “At its core biological basis, it's unfair to criticize men for that initial unconscious circuitry.” In light of this, male ogling must henceforth be considered genetic destiny rather than anti-social creepiness.
The article alludes to the "creepiness" factor associated with ogling. Once again, the prevailing zeitgeist seeks to undermine typically male behavior derived from our natural state. The author relays some female responses to the study - summed up with this classic "shaming tactic":
“You're pathetic.”
The astute female neuroscientist expounds upon the motivation for such ire:
“Women feel competitive about their looks with other women. It's a very core, basic biology that our female brains are very threatened by other women that might out-compete us.”
And the author sums up much of our current feminized culture:
The peace-seeking male, then, has only one option: To deny his hard-wired humanity and keep eyes focused at the ground at all times.
Another study finds ovulating women tend to buy sexier clothes:
In an unconscious attempt to outdo female rivals, ovulating women buy sexier clothing, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. The authors' research provides some of the first evidence of the influence of hormonal factors on consumer behavior. "We found that, when ovulating, women choose sexier fashion products when thinking about other attractive, local—but not distant—women," the authors write.
Now how can the liberal creationists explain away this one. I don't recall our supposedly omnipotent cultural edifices containing explicit or implicit dictates for acting in this manner. And the participants were completely ignorant as to the rationale:
The authors found that women were not conscious of their choices and the researchers did not find the same effect in non-ovulating women.
Finally, a study finds yet another inborn indicator of sexual value - alphas have their own scent:
It is thought the phenomenon helps women sniff out alpha males, in the belief they will provide them with healthy children. The scented signal may also provide wimps with a subtle warning that there is a superior male nearby who is not to be messed with.

German psychologists behind the findings studied the link between a man’s sweat and his level of aggression, which is critical to the survival of a species. However sophisticated tests on the womens’ skin found they were more aroused by the badminton players’ sweat, with anxious women the most sensitive.
All these studies evince the same supposition: modern man is a vestige of his evolutionary history, his inherent aptitudes, desires, and wants forged by sexual and physical competition. Any honest individual can discern the fallaciousness of man as infinitely pliable with culture, money, rote training in childhood, and Ivy League "Teach(ers) for America" making all the difference. We can try to escape these truths through willfull ignorance or cultural indoctrination, but nature always wins. I applaud these scholars for not capitulating to modern academia's PC culture. I imagine this "blasphemous" research was met with opposition from the keepers of our noblest lies. Unfortunately, decades of failure haven't stopped the seemingly indomitable forces of anti-reality liberalism.

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

"In one-fifth of a second, before the conscious mind has had a chance to react, the male brain has rendered judgment on whether the oncoming stranger is sexually hot.

Pupils dilate, heart rate spikes, testosterone surges and the eyes assume a vacant stare — sure signs that the “man trance” has set in. For genetically preprogrammed men, the offence is as involuntary and natural as breathing, says brain researcher, "

OK. And what do you now do with this knowledge? This seems to me a perfect justification to impose a burqa on the female.

mengbomin said...

You can, however, control how long you stare at someone, so when the quoted scientist says:

At its core biological basis, it's unfair to criticize men for that initial unconscious circuitry

I can accept that. Lord knows I've found myself glancing at various women from time to time. But I think you can make a cutoff based on how long someone is "glancing". A quick glance is innocuous and, if Dr. Brizendine is correct, it's merely an unconsious reflex. However, after a bit of time, one is definitely conscious of the glance and can choose to stop.

I'm not a modern Western woman, so I don't know what is considered "creepy" and what's not, but I would think that there would be a distinction between the man whose head turns for a second or less and the man who fixes his gaze for a full 5 to 10 seconds.

B Lode said...

"You're pathetic" is such a funny response. "Pathetic" is the all-purpose putdown, a word meaning "dumb" or "lame", more or less, descended from a word meaning "deserving of compassion and concern".

In other words, heterosexual mean need help and they're not going to get it from modern (angry) women.

How often do you hear a man saying "It's pathetic/lame/stupid how much time/money women spend on their appearance/clothes"? Now THAT word turn my head. I never hear a male over the age of 15 complaining that girls act too much like girls. As a little boy, I did. I teased my sister about her obsession with pink mirrors and the like. By junior high school, I had stopped ... "something" had changed.

In other words, feminist thinking about gender differences is equivalent to little-boy thinking on the same subject.

dana said...

Larry Auster has written many times that the current fad among "serious" women of exposing their cleavage is an act of aggression against men in a time where the male gaze is practically criminal

Anonymous said...

You can control how long you stare at someone... but why?

If the woman notices you noticing, just smirk and keep looking.

PA said...

One thing I miss from the 70s, when I was too young to really appreciate it, is women's showing off their their breasts in ways they don't do now: pokies through fabric, a bit of see-thru, or loose tops or blouses that would expose a breast from some angles. No bra, if breasts were small enough to not need support.

And based on my recollection and photos/movies from that time, this wasn't done in an aggressive in-your-face belligerent sexuality like today. There seemed to be a spirit of frivolity, generosity about the way they showed off their breasts.

All women do now is power-cleavage (which doesn't do anything for me) or tightly-wrapped projectiles (which probably often are fake).

PA said...

If the woman notices you noticing, just smirk and keep looking

That's true. If you smile and keep your gaze (on her eyes) she will look away first and your staring will be forgiven.

The worst thign to do is quickly look away when caught.

Anonymous said...

Badminton players = alphas? You have got to be kidding me!

NutUpOrShutUp said...

@B Lode

Sometimes Feminists come off as being underdeveloped men. Maybe you are on to something that we have yet to notice in human biodiversity community. We need to do a DNA test to see if Jessica Valenti is actually a woman, or a Wooh Man, I knew she was a dude.

HBD Talk said...

I imagine this "blasphemous" research was met with opposition from the keepers of our noblest lies.

I don't know why you think that these are such hidden truths. The media eats up stories like this. I've come across stories about women's behavior when ovulating more than a few times. Nobody denies PMS.

The only place I've ever heard that there were no natural differences between the sexes was in the university. But people are only in college for four years; they're exposed to the media for a lifetime.

Nobody is being a martyr by studying sex differences, especially a woman.

Cul-De-Sac Hero said...

Wow, you see how beautiful Science can be when she’s not being slapped around like a whore by media-pimps in the name of feminism, environmentalist, anti-environmentalists, governments, parties and various idealogues. She’s a real "head-turner" and, amazingly enough this time, she confirms what most reasonable people already know – men like to look at women and women like to attract attention.

Here’s a study that apparently justifies one of the newest trends in parenting – Attachment Parenting. All it really proves is that children remember stressful situations. Of course it is assumed by the sponsors that stress - all stress - is bad for children so you need to be right beside them 24/7 but the article never questions that.
http://www.physorg.com/news201964561.html
What about this page of "research" that's supposed to make us change the way we look at "gender roles".
http://www.pinkstinks.co.uk/pdfs/6.pdf