I have noticed huge changes in my life.
The bigotry and prejudice about sexual desire and sexual "acting out" may or may not be due to some fantasy about the relative price of sperm and eggs.
In other cultures, other places, other times that bigotry, prejudice, and shaming was/is not a thing.
A equally valid possibility is the shaming of sex work is due to misogyny. It is the powerful men brought down by the "sluts and whores". Hence the shaming.
I have a argument for that: In my country until recently it was a crime to offer sex for money but not pay money for sex. If the underlying cause was "relative cost" not misogyny then that difference would not exist
And don't think we can't move backwards from here... quickly, violently, and for many years, decades, even centuries. Its happened before with humanity. Who knows how many times before we had recorded records to reference?
The entirety of the field of evolutionary psychology.
I had a huge post typed up, but I realize that because you immediately went on the attack:
> You clearly have very limited experience with woman.
You're not interested in actually learning anything. You think you already know. You think you've read all the literature. You actually think you're well-informed.
What you want is for people to shut the fuck up and agree with, because you don't want your worldview challenged.
> Claiming that all woman are or are not X (for any X) shows that your view of woman is simple enough to almost be a caricature.
You talk about being a caricature, then immediately go for a statement like this, which is a combination of the worst kind of pedantry and high-functional mental disability...
Here's one for you. Fact: Men are stronger than women. When a biologist says this, they don't mean every man is stronger than every woman. They mean almost all men are stronger than almost all women.
This is one, of many papers in the field: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0265407513487638
having said that: gender is a spectrum. it's very fluid. it's true for all animals. including humans. but evolution takes millions of years. not the average human lifespan.
unless. we modify it but it wont be natural selection that we can witness in our lifetimes.
Probably because we're biologically programmed to understand that's not the case?
It boils down to a simple, but true, undeniable - and apparently for a lot of people, unpleasant - maxim from biology - Sperm are cheap, eggs are expensive.
There's a reason that male birds evolved colorful plumage and in many cases, elaborate dance displays. There's a reason the males of hundreds of thousands of other species have evolved to impress females of their species.
You may not like it. You may not agree with it. You may not condone it. But you're not going to change it. You don't have the power. The only thing that'll change this is time. Lots and lots of time. People think you can separate genetically reinforced biologically-ingrained biases from culture. You can't. You won't. No one can. It has to progress slowly, over time.
The world that many progressive people want may come to pass one day, but it won't be today, it won't be tomorrow, it won't be 10 years from now, it won't be 100 years from now.
Bookmark this comment and come back whenever you want. See how long it takes for the majority of society to shift. You'll have a very long wait.