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Why Modern Masculinity Fears the Adult Woman

Why Modern Masculinity Fears the Adult Woman

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Why Modern Masculinity Fears the Adult Woman What is it? What is it that engenders this apparently uncontrollable predilection among adult human males towards very young girls? Is it evolutionary predisposition – the idea that younger females are more likely to be more fertile than older, and for a longer time, therefore increasing men’s chances of being able to reproduce more versions of themselves? And that would be a comprehensible reason, actually, but for the fact that in many many cases, the girl is too young to reproduce, so “having his children” could not possibly be the reason. So what is it? Why do human males “go after” girl children with such alacrity and insistence? And, more specifically, what is it that has men in so many diverse parts of our world, resist the raising of the age of consent to sex and to marriage? I’m Shirley Osborne and this is The Power Table. Thank you for joining our conversations about women, power and the patriarchy. Welcome. To understand why laws protecting young girls from child marriage face systemic resistance globally, or why modern beauty standards increasingly demand that adult women modify their bodies to mimic pre-pubescence, we are going to have to look past individual pathology and examine what appears to be a structural, collective psychological defence mechanism. The question we need to ask is straightforward but uncomfortable: What are men afraid of when they look at a fully mature, autonomous adult woman?In the United States and in Somalia, men resist, vehemently and with tears, no less, when legislators seek to make it unlawful for men to marry girl children, or to raise the age of consent for sex. In the parliaments of states as diverse as Alaska, California and Oklahoma, bills that would raise the age of consent have repeatedly failed to pass the vote. In Iraq, Yemen and Somalia, men protested so vehemently against raising the marriage age, that the governments caved and abandoned the cause, or repealed legislation they had already managed to get passed. So, when we connect the global resistance against raising the age of marriage to the cultural obsession with physical smallness and female hairlessness for example, in the westernised countries, a clear pattern emerges.We come to realise that this is not only about sexual desire, but indubitably, about the maintenance of dominance. It points to a deep-seated aversion among traditional and modern men alike toward adult female peerhood – the reality of engaging with an equal partner who possesses physical maturity, full agency, and socio-economic leverage; in other words, those men specifically want women they can control, overpower and dominate. Children with no skills, education, money or physical capcity, and skinny, weak women fit the bill. The Weaponization of Biology: From Neoteny to the Supernormal Stimulus Now, to analyze this logically, we must first separate basic evolutionary biology from cultural exploitation. Let’s look at the biological baseline.Evolutionary psychology tells us that human males naturally look for markers of youth and fertility, a concept known as neoteny. Neoteny is an evolutionary phenomenon where an organism slows its physical development, causing it to retain juvenile or infantile traits into adulthood. Also referred to as juvenilization or paedomorphosis, it is a key driver in the evolutionary history of several species. In humans it includes smooth skin, bright eyes, lack of facial and pubic hair. In a primitive context - in days when we were all ignorant, uneducated, unscientific and beastlike - these were all the available indicators of reproductive health. They say she’s likely to be able to bear many children over a long period of time.Human evolution and the development of science have brought us to a stage where there are, or ought to be, consideration of factors other than apparent fitness to reproduce the species however, so one would expect, for example, that civility, reason and the science of human childhood would be weighty factors. What we see today, though, particularly in the Western societal expectation for adult women is a modern distortion. Some groups of women routinely starve themselves into thinness, surgically reshape themselves into Barbie forms, dress like teenagers and completely eradicate pubic and body hair via practices like Brazilian waxing in order to meet these male expectations. That is not a natural biological preference. It is what is called a supernormal stimulus. In biology, a supernormal stimulus is an exaggerated version of a natural cue that triggers an amplified, unnatural response. By demanding that adult women strip away the physical markers of sexual maturity, the culture creates a hyper-real aesthetic that blurs the line between adult womanhood and pre-pubescence, aka childhood. This physical appearance minimizes the visual and physical reality of the woman’s adulthood, making her appear...
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