| | Also of note, they say that men are dogs, and this article makes no effort to curb that analogy:
... males sometimes put themselves in a position where they can be taken advantage of by their female playmates. Ain't that the truth! Whether it's something casual or not, something meaningful or just a night at the mansion.
The gentlemanly dog behavior is even accompanied with a bow.
"We found that self-handicapping tends to occur in conjunction with play bows," lead author Camille Ward told Discovery News.
One wonders whether or how much the chivalrous bow or the tip of the hat to a female has its roots in such self-handicapping. Feminazis -- after all -- don't just say it's inherently sexist, they say it's inherently degrading (i.e., that it's soft-bigotry).
Females were more likely than males to initiate play with their own sex ... ====crickets====
Because adult female-female aggression, when it occurs, can generally be more intense ... That has been my experience. Female-on-female "crime" even makes ME shudder, and I am someone who enjoys watching mixed-martial-arts ultimate-fighting! Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned? Yes it does. The fury of a woman scorned by another woman. Discounting feminine males, I've never seen its equal.
... we suggest that females may use play with other females as one way to practice threat and appeasement signals that may serve to ritualize aggression and limit overt aggression later on ... This has been my experience as well. Feminine males and females -- in my life -- have been quick to cut off one's beef with another (to stem the tide of one's aggression with another). Women -- in my life -- have been able to quickly castrate an argument at the point where it becomes likely that a bridge will be burned or a brow will be beaten. They have not just done it, but done it rather skillfully. I suspect that there's evolutionary significance of that.
While males were less likely to initiate play with other males, they seemed eager to play with females, and would go to all sorts of lengths to keep the play going. Again, could these things really have any more of a ring of truth than they already do?
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The male puppies, for example, would sometimes ... Alright. I'm just going to stop now. If you want the rest of the story then click on the link. I can't keep doing this, it's driving me crazy!
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Ed
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