re: #257 Birth Control Works

MALES CAN’T APPEAR WEAK —

This I’ll never understand. But a man who is perceived as weak will be devoured by stronger men.

In an old privately owned health club/community center they had a separate entrance and area in the locker rooms for old men. We did’t have such a thing in the ladies. Never imagined such a thing. I guess old men appear weak and are especially susceptible to violence by young testosterone filled men. There is no such phenom with women. We look to our old women as mentors.

A lot of discussion of male-female conflict (and xenophobia) overlooks the fact that we are still carrying around a good bit of ape-brain constructs. There was reportedly a Papuan tribe that had no word to distinguish “outsider” and “enemy”.