Is Social Media Like Video Games for Boys and Men?

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I agree with Richard Reeves that we've sedated men out of their usefulness in the real world. The only disagreement I would have with him is he wants men to replace women in the home. There are some men who would want to do that, but I don't see in terms of teaching and in terms of just most health care, nurses and social workers or so forth. So I think it's more these big, big problems. We need agriculture to change. And we need so many things to change in our world.

Joyce Benenson is a lecturer of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University whose research focuses on human social structures and sex differences in competition and cooperation.

We're often told that men are more competitive, more status-driven and more ruthless with rivals for potential mates. In reality doesn't seem to be true, the difference is that women's competition takes a more subtle, cynical and sophisticated route to drive away their competitors.

Expect to learn how women compete for status, why women exclude more than men, why women who promote an egalitarian world are less charitable than you might think, how you can interfere with a rivals' relationship without getting caught, the usefulness of gossip as an enforcement mechanism and much more...

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