i-am-the-lighthouse:

giraffegiraf:

Why do people still honestly believe our genetic make up dating from the stone ages can explain the way we behave in the 21th century? And why do they often believe the myth that men were the main carers? Is it not a well-known fact that the gatherers cared for the main food income? GAH.

Also, how can this man so blatantly ignore the importance of women’s bodies is socially constructed? Did he not read Naomi Wolf’s Beauty Myth? He quoted her! WHAT. How can he simply ignore women’s bodies are being scrutinized and seen as objects, as Naomi Wolf said, to keep them in their place?

Reasoning such as this PISSES ME OFF TO NO END.

Also do not read the comments; you will cry.

I couldn’t even read this when it originally surfaced. A lot of the feminism-related news articles on Tumblr are good in principle, but when you read them they lack any amount of depth or intelligence, written by writers who haven’t fully rejected the gender binary and who say things that are so in line with common perception that they might as well not have written them in the first place.

Anyone could have written this, it’s just one clichéd piece of misinformation after another. 

“Women are vulnerable.” and he seems to really believe this, claiming that women somehow are more affected by media standards than men are.  Men can just laugh it off.  It really pissed me off when he continued to talk about the fucking stone age.  For one thing, he’s completley supporting darwins sexual selection crap which I reject.  Sex isn’t only about reproduction, it’s not some base uncontrollable thing.  It’s essential to the social dynamic of society and the connections to others.  He’s disregarding homosexuality.  Fuck being heteronormative and men being the ‘protector and provider’.

“What does she want? Not just a man who is a good hunter and a good fighter, but a man who has a track record as a hunter and fighter. In other words, an older man.”  I want to ask him if he was transported back in time or something.  These are things that historians and anthropologists can only guess at, and actually I don’t think most historians believe this.  ‘a hunter and fighter’???? did he never go to school.  I thought we were gatherers and scavengers way back when…  He goes on to say “And this is not only true of Stone Age couples. In a survey conducted by David Buss, 10,000 people, in 37 cultures, were polled. ‘In all 37 cultures included in the international study on choosing a mate,’ writes Buss, ‘women prefer men who are older than they are.’

Let me point out one thing… Never in movies are women seen to be attracted to younger men, and if they are they risk becoming the talk of the town.  They are known as ‘cougers’ never highly thought of. Yet if you notice the young man is often applauded for going after the ‘more experienced mature woman.’  An extreme gender binary, since it is normal for an older man to have a younger wife;a social construct straight from patriarchy.  I think it’s wrong to assume just because ‘everybody else’ thinks it’s good or normal means it is, and then to claim that’s how we were in the stone age?! Come on now.

“even the characters in the Harry Potter films, where the boys are allowed to look like geeks but the girl must look like a model. ” This particulary pissed me off.  One of the few movies that I feel comfortable watching because they aren’t exactly what he’s claiming they are.  Ugh.