“It is my hope that we do not need to fall by our own hand before we realize that we can only stand by God’s.”
“So there was a clear economic rationale for an ancestral division of labor, where individuals of each sex contributed more of what was comparatively advantageous to them. Women of course (and sometimes do) hunt, but men are on average more productive hunters; men can (and often do) gather and process foods, but they are not any more productive than women at the task.”
Source: Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
“In the island the gods are killed, killed like animals. And the man who kills a god becomes a god himself.”
Source: Dialoghi con Leucò
“Then who? Just tell me, Cal,” he groans, and then takes a drink of his own coffee, looking at me with puppy dog eyes.
“Landyn,” I say with a small quirk of my lips.
“Shut the fuck up!” Lars says with a loud guffaw. “I knew you had a thing for broken animals, but not broken men.”
“Is it true that spirits can’t remember anything about their human lives?”
“Yes,” it answered tartly. I had never considered before now that someone would have needed to speak to a spirit to learn that information. I had always merely accepted it as one of the Clerisy’s teachings.
“So you don’t know whether you were a man or a woman in life.”
“No, and I don’t see why it matters. Humans are so tedious. Oh, you have dangly bits. Congratulations, you’re going to put on armor and swing a sword about. Oh, you’ve ended up with the other kind. Too bad—time to either have babies or become a nun.”
Source: Vespertine
“Which men are most likely to be controlling? Those who are lower in mate value. These men ramp up heavy mate guarding because they believe they have lucked out in attracting a desirable woman and believe that she will be difficult or impossible to replace.”
Source: When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault
“Online pornography allows individuals to explore creative sexual possibilities they never knew existed but also creates entirely unrealistic expectations for real life sexual interactions.”
Source: When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault
“And this last year I also realized there are different kinds of love. There’s the dreamy kind you always thought you wanted and then there’s the steady one you never understood but the second you let yourself feel it…it’s nothing like you could have imagined in your wildest dreams.”
Source: Black Swan Affair
“Men need to understand the sexual over-perception bias that afflicts their mating minds. They should know that, most of the time, the women smiling at them are merely being friendly or polite, not signaling sexual interest.”
Source: When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault
“From the moment of conception, when the one tiny sperm joins the nutrient-rich egg, women are already contributing much more than the man.”
Source: When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault