study says ...

[writerspleasure]

babies have innate understanding of social hierarchy and dominance. which means it ain't socially constructed

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[pocketfullofsin]

First one is interesting, if obvious.

But second one: lol. College age guys think that their girlfriends hooking up with other girls is hot. This shows that men and women are wired differently. J'DUH.

[aria_muse]

re: the second: I don't think it shows that men are "wired differently"--I think it shows the institutionalized understanding of women's interest in women as essentially non-threatening to men and is instead fetishized in a particular way.

[writerspleasure]

you avoid biology entirely, though. from whence do these institutional patterns arise, and what keeps them locked in?

[aria_muse]

they arise from a longstanding hierarchical tradition that was instated for oppressionist aims. what keeps them locked in is assholes.