“I do get sick of the men in the group sometimes. They are always posturing.”
“That’s what we do! We posture. We will talk ourselves into weird extreme positions if it allows us to posture. Much of the appeal of Marxism was that it gave men an opportunity to posture. Same with postmodernism. Same with [area of sociology]. It’s your gender’s fault anyway. The need to posture comes from when men had to stand side-by-side on ice floes while a female looked them all over and then decided which one to breed with.”
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I like the way you use ‘overheard’ as shorthand for ‘conversation I had with a lady friend of mine’…
‘Overheard’ can mean many things.
I didn’t know there were ice-floes on the Savannah. It was a different time.
And yet, leks persevere, just in different guises and with different selection criteria.
Oh come on man. If you’re going to invoke leks, the least you can do it link it up.
The lack of a link was, doubtless, itself a lek-like move.
My lek-like experiences have generally involved me being farther down the greek alphabet and farther from the center than anything the diagram Peter linked to depicts.
I didn’t say “always” and I certainly didn’t mean all the guys. But yes, it sounds better that way here.:)
I like how you’ve refined your response, not that the original wasn’t good (it did make me LOL after all), but this one has some interesting added twists.
I like the way you use ‘overheard’ as shorthand for ‘conversation I had with a lady friend of mine’…
I know for a fact that this is not always the case, although here the correspondant was, indeed, a female friend.
Whatever. Even in the posturing nonsense, women are pawns in the process. Men are trying to impress women, to impress other men. The older I get the more I am convinced of this. I hope I’m wrong.