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> I would argue that "women and children first" has been practiced since the dawn of times in a smaller setting i.e. tribes of hunter gatherers > The motivatio
by jameslk 2y ago
> I would argue that "women and children first" has been practiced since the dawn of times in a smaller setting i.e. tribes of hunter gatherers
> The motivation is to protect women and children from likely dangerous circumstance so that the tribe can be quickly repopulated.
This is the male expendability hypothesis:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_expendability https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_expendability
- CTDOCodebases 2y agoThanks for the link. I came up with this theory after researching why men seem to have been the primary hunters in hunter gatherer tribes. Totally unscientific but I think that heterosexual men and women shape the behaviors of each other for better or worse. Similar stuff is observed in animals. Spiders are particularly interesting.