I would say human evolution trends more toward the Marilyn Monroe type of attractiveness. Whereas the fashion industry favors Twigggy's figure, for obvious reasons. Yeah, it's quite sad how countless women's lives have been ruined through decades of relentless advertising/marketing for the Twiggy ideal, which has gaslighted too many into thinking "stick skinny" is the body type most men prefer. Which of course isn't true at all. Yeah some guys like skinny girls, but I'd say most of us men prefer at least some thickness (not a slight at all to those women who are naturally skinny). And we're wayyyyyy less picky than Hollywood propaganda might suggest.
Human evolution itself is quite a harsh mistress when measured up against the edifice of social constructs our various cultures have erected in an attempt to tame the beast that is our **hindbrain** sexual impulses.
What 100,000+ years of human evolution has to say is broadly, 1. Women **want** the highest status (or most brazen) man of the group to father their children. And once those children are born, a provider to stick around. Note these are not necessarily going to be the same men.
2. Men **want** to run around boinking everything vaguely-female that moves.
Now when getting into the game of trying to maintain a civilized society, both of those above impulses can be incredibly destabilizing and destructive to a cohesive social order. That's why things like marriage and courtship rules were invented. Marriage is the ultimate social construct, especially monogamous marriage. **Nature** is constantly fighting this walled garden we've erected. Think of the gods as representing the kind of order that upholds and maintains the walled garden and its rules, whereas the giants/titans are those impulses always trying to break through and pillage the settlement. Problem is, like the gods, humans are a hybrid of gods and giants. As much as Zeus stands for civilization, he still has his bouts of running amok and boinking everything that moves...much to Hera's ire. This is also a good lesson on why it's so foolish to banish (or totally demonize) the giants from our mythologies. Jung would have a lot to say on that sort of suppression of the less-than-flattering aspects of human nature.
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Date: 2022-07-11 02:15 pm (UTC)Human evolution itself is quite a harsh mistress when measured up against the edifice of social constructs our various cultures have erected in an attempt to tame the beast that is our **hindbrain** sexual impulses.
What 100,000+ years of human evolution has to say is broadly,
1. Women **want** the highest status (or most brazen) man of the group to father their children. And once those children are born, a provider to stick around. Note these are not necessarily going to be the same men.
2. Men **want** to run around boinking everything vaguely-female that moves.
Now when getting into the game of trying to maintain a civilized society, both of those above impulses can be incredibly destabilizing and destructive to a cohesive social order. That's why things like marriage and courtship rules were invented. Marriage is the ultimate social construct, especially monogamous marriage. **Nature** is constantly fighting this walled garden we've erected. Think of the gods as representing the kind of order that upholds and maintains the walled garden and its rules, whereas the giants/titans are those impulses always trying to break through and pillage the settlement. Problem is, like the gods, humans are a hybrid of gods and giants. As much as Zeus stands for civilization, he still has his bouts of running amok and boinking everything that moves...much to Hera's ire. This is also a good lesson on why it's so foolish to banish (or totally demonize) the giants from our mythologies. Jung would have a lot to say on that sort of suppression of the less-than-flattering aspects of human nature.