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- From: jdnicoll@prism.ccs.uwo.ca (James Davis Nicoll)
- Subject: Re: Are you a Young Transplant?
- Organization: University of Western Ontario, London
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:09:03 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.200903.9152@julian.uwo.ca>
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- In article <MARTINC.92Nov18123935@hatteras.cs.unc.edu> martinc@hatteras.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
- >In article <lgipf2INN78a@news.bbn.com> dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin) writes:
- >
- a threat deleted
-
- >I still can't figure out why it is that Dawn, who is a small cute
- >brunette with a nice smile, gets results this way, while *I* -- looking
- >rather like Bluto, with a black belt, a decent knife thrower and an
- >expert shot with a pistol -- get *laughs* when I threaten violence.
-
- I just read a fascinating book called 'Chimpanzee Politics'.
- In Chimpanzees, gender appears to have an effect on the manner in
- which conflicts are created and resolved. One neat bit was that male
- violence-in-pursuit-of-social-rank is less likely to involve actions
- like biting (Male chimpanzees have huge canines; using them is
- potentially lethal). Perhaps human females are more likely to resort
- to overt violence than males, and their threats are taken more
- seriously.
-
- Careful pre-selection of data shows support for this: typical
- romance movies like 'single white female' and 'basic instinct' indicate
- courtship and general interaction with females is percieved to be rather
- dangerous for human males.
-
- James Nicoll
-