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cm27874's avatar

Said the Wonderful Mary Harrington to the Fabulous Benjamin Boyce (starting aroung 59:00): "In a sense, the internet has cucked all of us. [...] Women are just as aggressive and competitive as men but they go about it differently. [...] Once you transfer all of human interaction onto the internet you foreclose the possibility of physical violence, and in a sense it means that all conflict now happens in the female key."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uh1o6p5sXA

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Charles Main's avatar

As a male, I can attest to a problem with #3. Seems you are comparing apples to oranges, i.e., covert female 'games' in general to male sports games with clearly defined rules, immutable within the game, and within the context of a game event with a clearly defined time limit. (Even opting out of one of these games can have social consequences, not always inconsequential. The 'nerd' and the 'jock'? Colin Kaepernick?)

The most extreme consequences of opting out can be illustrated by the potentially deadly result of quitting a criminal organization, an admittedly overt extreme, but there are infinite 'covert' non-violent gradations of this in polite male society (hoping that is not an oxymoron ;-). Everybody is defined by their choices on many subtle levels.

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