by whereami 11 Replies latest jw friends
"Our aggressive and combative impulses are derived from an ancient, in fact pre-human part of our nature, and that humans wage war in a similar way to how the great ape battle over territory and resources".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg4AjD1fUaw&feature=player_embedded
I want a banana damn it.
Funny.
I saw a documentary saying we behave more like army ants.
JDW
I thought this thread would be about Shamus...
Snoozy
ps, My brother told me when I was dating my future hubby to be(after seeing future hubby's hairy arms) that "He is going ape over you"...
Who denies mammals have things in common with other mammals?
"If you believe you came from a monkey, doesn't that give you permission to act like one, too?"
Where is our in house monkey, Shamus?
Heh, heh....
I really enjoyed that book, "The Naked Ape"... Even though it's an old book...
What's really interesting, is that in that book, somewhere around page 80 - maybe as far as page 84, the author gives the BEST explanation for the prevalence of "sexual harassment" issues in the modern world...
In essence, he states this...
'Among apes, when a male ape behaves aggressively, the females in the group tend to use a sexual display - displaying their rumps to be mounted - in an effort to distract the aggressive male and reduce - or re-channel - his aggression.
Translating this behavior into human behavior, this may explain the folk wisdom that women "prefer" the "bad boys"...
IN fact, what may be happening - and the human males may be taking advantage of this tendency, too - the human females may be showing some version of the female apes' behaviors - using their female sexuality in an attempt to "tone down" the dangerous aggression of the human male...
Now, put that behavior into an office setting... Usually the more aggressive males become the "leaders" - the managers, the presidents, the chairman of the board, the vice-presidents, the "bosses"...
If human females are responding in a manner similar to the simian females, the human male's aggression would tend to stimulate a "sexual" display in the females... Add to that, the tendency for the aggressive males to obtain a greater portion of resources and the tendency for human females to seek out the males with the greatest amount of resources... As do so many other females of various species - birds, as well as simians...
However, such 'sexual display' to tone down aggression would NOT normally be an actual invitation to MATE... Which would lead to confusion for any human male who RESPONDED to such display as an actual INVITATION TO MATE...
I suspect that these behaviors are the basis of so many murky instances of "sexual harassment" litigation... The "He said - She said" misunderstandings...
Zid
Interesting Zid.
Could you imagine some poor guy/ape, trying to explain what you just said in a sexual harassment case? LOL!!!
"But your honor she was just trying to calm me down".
LOLOL, WhereAmI!!
