bad thinking, doesn't the idea of "hunting" people, regardless of gender, give one pause?

boys as hunter.

if there was something about this being hunting people, then ya, .... more than a pause. but, that is not what is being promoted. and the crap growing on the net that this is just simply the biology of man..... is only feeding the idea that this is who we are.

i dont get your post.

You can set your watch by this stuff.

Something bad happens where the target is women, and someone pops up with how it would be bad if it happened to men too. Or that it happened to men this other time. Anything to change the subject... Which in this case is our rape culture which portrays men as hunters and women as prey... not men.

So yes, in some alternate universe where rape culture targeted men as prey, that would be bad too, but we live here on planet earth in this reality, so... derail failed.

and how horrible that is... and the first comment is about how hunting anyone is wrong.

Amazing.

Do you or don't you have a problem with human "targets"? I do, whatever their gender.

Would you find it acceptable if the boys were in animal costumes and hunted by the girls? I wouldn't.

Your objection appears to be not about the hunting, as mine is, but about the roles they have been assigned. Is it really more objectionable to be the prey than the hunter?

If so, why? Do you really think this sort of role playing denigrates the girls?

our history is women as prey. and men the hunters. it causes massive problems in our world, this mentality. in all kinds of ways. if there was really an issue of human being prey, then yes, that is what we would discuss. there is not that issue. the issue is forever women have been presented as prey.

it goes way beyond just a human being prey. it goes into the very concept of one gender dominate over another.

this is not a pretend. this is not make believe.

i can hardly believe you are serious with this. but, you appear to be.

stalking and attacking women in the real world?

Some stretch. This is a game with silly role playing and, yeah, really, I don't get the association with women being victimized.

There are plenty of other rather nasty games I've heard of that could inspire outrage, but this is really a stretch.

man hunter/women prey theory that is a so widely held belief by so many and spoken about often, and then i read the same poster deny other obvious sexist behavior, i do not take it to heart knowing there is an agenda. so why bother.

i talked about this at our dinner table last night. it was more comical than the "outrage" you would like to project onto me. and from the very beginning my husband and two teen age sons were equally "outraged" (ok, more flabbergasted by the adm choice) understanding the inappropriateness of the choice this school made.

equally, while you and a handful of others address our issues as hair on fire, when you and others continually look the other way at obvious examples of reinforcing patriarchy, your message becomes unheard.

anyone took that stuff seriously except the horny guys looking for a way to score. And, maybe lonely women looking for some way to attract "that" guy. I hear the self-help section of Amazon is loaded with that stuff, so I guess it is more popular than I thought.

Can't deny that men have somehow evolved to be the aggressors in mating and women tend to more passive. Why this has happened, and whether it's a good thing in the 21st century I'll leave to the experts to debate (real experts, that is, not bloggers or Redbook contributers) but our mating rituals still ask the men to make the first move and the women have the right to accept or reject. How much of this can be transposed into some bizarre savage ethos calling women "prey" I have no idea, but I suspect not much.

I'm still comfortable with the idea that prehistoric women looked for a man capable of provision and protection while the men looked for a woman healthy enough to bear and raise children-- a quaint, but necessary and equal division in primitive societies. From that came our present mating rituals and, unnecessary as they may be now, they were not all that different from other mammals and birds back then.

I'm not sure how much "outrage" I'm projecting, but until women stop looking for the best bra and men stop drooling over the women who found it I'm just finding many of the arguments about "sexism" to be hilarious.
Sad, but still hilarious.

i started hearing this evo psych more and more. i started reading about it, seeing what it was all about. this was about 5 yrs ago. men were using it... literally using it, more and more, for control and dominance of women and what our roles are per gender. i was seeing it in studies, then in time magazines and other publications. it was on cnn more and more. about three yrs ago i was telling my husband something about it. he looked at me like i was a fool. people do not believe that crap, he said. but hubby of mine, i am telling you, this new cult like evo psych is gaining ground, getting more and more popular. it is literally being used as a weapon against women.

over the years, he too has been keeping his eyes and ears open. he is totally amazed this shit is out there.

the problem is, we have so little info and so much of the supposed scientific fact is nothing but story telling. and there is only one agenda. the scientific world dismisses this evolutionary psych for exactly that reason. the stories can have holes all over it, yet it will be used as fact and then when argued, people like me are accused of being "anti science".

someone brought up a point recently. let me ask. just a consideration.

examples of someone being unaware of his privilege I have seen in a long time.

It's like, privilege-blind on a Romney level.

i come to, this is computerland. and more than anything, we do know the agenda of male superiority pushed and forced fed in computerland.