Women's Mating Philosophy: Lessons From Slash

[sqbr]

Via hl: Here, let me mansplain slash to you..

Wow. And thus I have some vague understanding of how "exotic" peoples feel when anthropologists write books about them.

Brief description: A male evolutionary psychologist "explains" slash as this weird anthropological oddity, making it sound like he stumbled on it and figured out it's significance all by himself. Said significance being: it's a way for straight women to fantasize about heterosexual sex but as an equal. Also the fact it's monogamous is NOTHING like "real gay sex".

Comments

[ex_pippin880]

Oh that's awesome, we have the same layout so your text doesn't move between my rlist and your post.

[hl]

Ugh, evolutionary psychologists bring shame to both anthropologist and biologists, and those that straddle both fields. Truly. Real, reputable, modern anthropology is nothing like that, and the concept of evolution in biology is way more complicated and less deterministic than what they use.

I'm just... embarrassed by proxy.

[trouble]

That is probably the best thing I have ever watched. There is nothing that gives me more pleasure than watching someone try and patiently explain why women who like slash are strange and unusual, but not commenting on the faux-lesbian mainstream pr0n at all. It's like... Christmas!

[samvara]

*removes feet from dating pool and cowers in horror*

[sqbr]

I did it just for you!

And oh look, we both use ">"s in our link list. WHAT A COINCIDENCE.

[sqbr]

You don't want a Manly Warrior to help you fulfill your biologically mandated mating role?

[sqbr]

Happy to share the festive spirit :)

[samvara]

It is my personal belief that regular orgasms can trick the female body into believing it has fulfilled its biological imperative... if that happens to involve role-playing with a Manly Warrior I will not judge you.

[tree]

clearly he should get together with the woman who thinks that any woman who has heterosexual sex is being raped. i think they'd cancel each other out.

[sami]

*suddenly visualises sqbr's husband being a Manly Warrior*

I... no

scuse me while I go purge my mental cache before it actually gets up to doing that in some kind of sex-based or orgasm-related context, kthx

He's a lovely man but OH GOD NO I CHERISH MY BLANKET IGNORANCE OF THE SEX LIVES OF MY FRIENDS

[sami]

Those women are amateurs. I've read pamphlets by women who say that it's rape AND reinforcing the Patriarchy if one woman penetrates another - with fingers, even.

[samvara]

...you're judging!

[sami]

If, by "judging", you mean "reluctant to visualise anyone I know in a sexual context", yes, yes I am.

[samvara]

*and* dressed up!

[sqbr]

Ahahaha

I laugh, but I feel the same way about my friends :)

See I try and imagine Cam as a Manly Warrior and I see him holding a spear going "Grr!" then going "Meh", dropping it, and going back on the computer :D

*uses icon of me as manly warrior*

[sami]

I'm glad it's not just me who has trouble realistically visualising him doing that.

[aquaeri]

I'm an evolutionary biologist and I have the same problem. <cringe>.

[hl]

Uh, hey, I'm going to try to be unselfconscious about this, but:

I just followed the link back to your profile and I would be really interested in reading you, so I'm subscribing. I hope it's OK!

[aquaeri]

No worries (as we say around here). I'm using the Shiny! New! of DW as an excuse to expand and modify my circle of acquaintace myself.

[nixwilliams]

ahahahahAHAHAHAHAHAHA OH MY GODDDDDDDDDD!!! THAT IS TOTAL GENIUS! I HAVEN'T LAUGHED SO MUCH IN DAYS!

[sqbr]

*nods* Luckily noone cares what pure mathematicians think so we make less public messes :)