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From: carson@homxa.UUCP (P.CARSTENSEN)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: male/female differences
Message-ID: <610@homxa.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 10-Jan-85 17:51:37 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 10 17:51:37 1985
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Umm, maybe I have a weird set of friends, but I seem to run into
a lot of men who want very much to settle down with one specific
woman, and women who are very suspicious of the whole idea (We
just ain't very far along evolutionarily, I guess :-)....
Seriously, since making the most of each offspring (ie making
sure you gets grandkids) is at least as good a survival strategy
as having lots of kids, it makes sense to have 2 parents raising
kids so man has much more stake in monogamy than woman (don't
want wrong genes to survive...) and worries more about the, umm,
what bird is it that lays eggs in other birds' nests so it won't
have to raise the kids????...it's just taken us poor women a LONG
time to figure out the silly lies about the "advantages" of
monogamy....
P.