[FRIAM] the pseudoscience of evolutionary psychology?

[glen]

No. I'm saying that you are artificially discretizing the motivation of the women (and men) at the GG.

On February 14, 2018 5:43:08 PM PST, Frank Wimberly <wimberly3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>I think you're saying that your motivation for exposing skin is
>different  from that of the women on the Golden Globes program, which
>seems correct to me.
>
>Frank
>
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>Your questions seem to assume that the only reason to expose one's body
>is to be desired.  I know that *I* don't wear shorts in the summer so
>that I'll be desired by the women (or men) in my neighborhood. 8^)  One
>reason I try to expose my arms even when I'm cold is in order to
>increase my cold tolerance.  It has nothing to do with being desired.
>
>
>On 02/14/2018 03:27 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
>> This is not particularly relevant to Dave's essay but was stimulated
>by his questions about physical attraction between genders.  I was
>puzzled while watching the Golden Globes (for a few minutes) by the
>apparent conflict between the themes of "Me Too" and "Time's Up"(?) and
>the very provocative display of women's bodies.  I wonder if Jacques
>Lacan's insight that "Man's desire is the desire of the other" is
>relevant.  In this case: women want to be desired but not to be
>possessed or seduced.  Note that their bodies are on display to
>who-knows-how-many strangers. A warm, affectionate relationship with
>that number of men is not possible.  On the other hand, maybe it's a
>question of asserting alphaness among women.  I don't presume to know
>whether either speculation is the case.
>
>
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