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This is exactly right. I've come across this theory of obsession on my own and I've been helping my wife find what she's obsessed with. She watches things on Yo

This is exactly right. I've come across this theory of obsession on my own and I've been helping my wife find what she's obsessed with. She watches things on YouTube like makeup tutorials that are things I would have never thought she was obsessed with.

satyrnein 7y ago
Let's not be too hasty in concluding women's attention to their appearance and their children is completely genetic when all throughout history these were duties pushed onto them. Darwin got to say "I'll be in my study" and "you take care of the kids and dinner and everything else" was just automatically implied.
- belorn 7y ago
  You are arguing against an imaginary argument. Parent and grand parent comment did not say anything about genetics. Darwin could go inside the study because his gender role was fulfilled by being rich. Had he been poor he might have said "I will be in the coal mine", and getting slowly and horrible killed. Very few know people in history had the privilege to freely obsess over things which is outside their gender role, especially if the result leads to them not fulling that role through other means.
  - satyrnein 7y ago
    This whole subthread is speculation about the role of gender in the choice of obsessive hobbies, or am I imagining that? I agree with you that most men over the course of history did not have the luxury that Darwin did.
    - belorn 7y ago
      The comment from Bostonian did that. That person speculated that gender influence how obsessive a person is. zozbot234 comment below that said "I don't think this is the case.", arguing instead that low visibility over gender lines makes people think that gender has an impact how obsessive a person is. rhlsthrm comment below that one said "This is exactly right". This is why I said parent and grandparent, ie zozbot234 and rhlsthrm comments, did not include genetics in their arguments, and I interpreted your comment as arguing against them as if they had argued in favor of genetics. If I am wrong and you directed your argument against the grandgrandparent then I am sorry for that interpretation.

satyrnein 7y ago

Let's not be too hasty in concluding women's attention to their appearance and their children is completely genetic when all throughout history these were duties pushed onto them. Darwin got to say "I'll be in my study" and "you take care of the kids and dinner and everything else" was just automatically implied.

belorn 7y ago
You are arguing against an imaginary argument. Parent and grand parent comment did not say anything about genetics. Darwin could go inside the study because his gender role was fulfilled by being rich. Had he been poor he might have said "I will be in the coal mine", and getting slowly and horrible killed. Very few know people in history had the privilege to freely obsess over things which is outside their gender role, especially if the result leads to them not fulling that role through other means.
- satyrnein 7y ago
  This whole subthread is speculation about the role of gender in the choice of obsessive hobbies, or am I imagining that? I agree with you that most men over the course of history did not have the luxury that Darwin did.
  - belorn 7y ago
    The comment from Bostonian did that. That person speculated that gender influence how obsessive a person is. zozbot234 comment below that said "I don't think this is the case.", arguing instead that low visibility over gender lines makes people think that gender has an impact how obsessive a person is. rhlsthrm comment below that one said "This is exactly right". This is why I said parent and grandparent, ie zozbot234 and rhlsthrm comments, did not include genetics in their arguments, and I interpreted your comment as arguing against them as if they had argued in favor of genetics. If I am wrong and you directed your argument against the grandgrandparent then I am sorry for that interpretation.