• _NoName_@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Hasn't evolutionary psychology been heavily debunked at this point?

    I think it's much easier to say that dudes have it hammered into their heads that girls are bad at games, so when they underperform and a girl is on their team, they feel emasculated. This isn't too far off from when dudes end up losing their 'bread winner' status in their relationship. They were told they had explicit traits to exhibit and they failed to do so, so it hits them in their self esteem. Classic fragile masculinity.

    Patriarchal conditioning makes way more sense than "caveman brain HATE competing with woman!".

    • Chetzemoka@startrek.website
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, the problem is it slips too easily into essentialism. "Oh we evolved this way, nothing we can do about it I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"

      Especially for questions like this, which could pretty easily be explained by cultural influences, no need to bring evolution into it.