Everything she says is right, of course. But it's hard to shake the previous 100,000 years of social reality: young men are in excess and losing one (or even an army) here or there is costless, while young women are a limiting resource (both for individual males and society as a whole) and keeping all of them around is a priority. The modern reality, of course, is that more people die from auto accidents than from crime, but it's hard to keep focused on that.
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Date: 2016-03-14 02:39 am (UTC)