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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Dayuhan who wrote (78032)4/13/2000 6:11:00 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Your post reminded me of something - neotony, the retention of juvenile characteristics into maturity. Humans have adapted to the large brain and large skull that holds it by being born "premature" compared to other mammals, and retain juvenile characteristics for a long time, even into maturity, compared to other large primates. We have an innate attraction for juveniles (I don't mean sexual, although some have that), which is good because if we didn't, we wouldn't shoulder the burden of prolonged infancy. We even select our domestic animals to have more juvenile characteristics than wild-type.

Probably a lot of the behavior that I say is innate and you say is learned is essential for the prolonged mother-child bond, and the inter-family bond.

Slavery is directed towards "others." Subjugation of women seemed like protection of one's own women, the women who were mistreated were "other."
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