Encore Episode: Gender Essentialism
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The Moral Animal by Robert Wright
A lot of this gets distilled in a 1990s book by Robert Wright called The Moral Animal. He's very interested in showing how humans are similar to non-human animals. And so he says, A female in sheerly Darwinian terms is better off mating with a good rapist. Her male offspring will then be more likely to be big, strong and sexually aggressive. So female resistance should be favored by natural selection as a way to avoid having a son who is an inept rapist.
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