[updated] MGTOW: on the origin of gynocentrism

PeterWrightMGTOW · 2016-07-03T02:48:25+00:00

As compelling as biological determinism is for those who promote it, there’s always two forces acting to create gynocentrism: the cultural and the biological, working together.

I don’t think anyone can deny the existence of cultural gynocentrism – it’s all around us in laws, institutions, customs and behaviors. Biological gynocentrism is also a fact (cultural gynocentrism wouldn’t exist without it) and it works as a co-creator and compliment of the cultural.

A no brainer.

Where the exaggeration by evopsych enthusiasts lies is in attributing too singular a force to biology, which is biological determinism and reductivism. That fantasy of a ‘biology only,’ of biology as root cause, ignores culture’s role as an exaggerator (eg. a superstimulus) which acts on biological expression to create extreme gynocentric behaviors.

The fact is that culture can and has shaped human evolution and the human genome, eg. see: The Secret of Our Success: How Culture is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter

Determinist interpretations of gynocentrism are fictions with too much apriori gravity attributed to the biological side. For instance I just heard part of a video by colttaine in which he proposes one of his favorite formulas [quote] “biology precedes culture and ideology”.

Note his comment doesn't give equal weight to environment + biology as co-determinants of human behavior, with both acting in a reciprocal feedback system. Biology is stated as prior in time “This precedes that”. It’s stated as if a biological entity – say a human infant – exists in a biological void, and is not born into a preexisting environment that holds a lot of power to shape genetic expression. Humans are not thermite, as cute as the thermite theory is.

Fortunately most in the manosphere – MGTOW, PUAs, MHRAs etc avoid that error of logic.

Title	[updated] MGTOW: on the origin of gynocentrism
Author	PeterWrightMGTOW
Upvotes	5
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Date	July 3, 2016 1:51 AM UTC (10 years ago)
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