History of Feminism
In reply to the discussion: really, how creepy for a progressive board group of men to ask.. how young of a girl can we lust [View all]TheMadMonk
(6,187 posts)...puberty would happen in the late teens and not at ten or younger and this issue would not exist.
BTW: Nature does not care about optimal. Nature cares only about what works to bring about a new generation in the shortest amount of time possible. Bodies left by the wayside are just that much mulch, which prove by simply existing, that they didn't have that which was necessary to make the cut.
Like it or lump it, underneath that veneer of civilisation, we're still animals, and it really does not take much poking and prodding to let it loose in either gender. We have the capacity to rise above that animal nature, but it's still there underneath. Recognising the existence of that nature, and understanding it, is the best path to controlling it.
I don't advocate "typical male-pig behaviour", I advocate understanding it with a view towards modifying it intelligently.
But no, we're delivered ultimatums to get ourselves under control, whilst being forbidden to properly discuss exactly what the fuck it is we're supposed to be controlling.
19 optimal for a male? What planet are you on? Compare a 19 year old hunter gatherer, or subsistence farmer, with a full adult of the same tribe. The adult would snap the 19 YO like a twig. 19 is young, dumb, full of cum, and in an ideal world still small enough to recognize that he's only up to knocking heads with his peers and the natural world. Well fed and over-entitled, he's out in the streets being stupidly macho and deliberately picking fights with the "chieftain's lieutenants". (police). And in some cases taking part in the pack rape of drunken sixteen year old girls with a greater or lesser degree of impunity.
FFS Well fed and over-entitled, we have 10, 12 and 13 year olds "behaving badly" like the late teen rake-hells of my generation and earlier and for exactly the same reason. Their just "dropped" balls are telling them to push the envelope and demonstrate by the simplest of expedients, survival, that they are fit to breed the next generation.
It's not enough to just label such behaviour wrong and insist that it be made to go away. We need to understand WHY THE BEHAVIOUR IN THE FIRST PLACE.