Zseni wrote:

laudablepuss wrote:

Zseni wrote:

laudablepuss wrote:

So you think women WERE NOT gathering berries. Maybe the men were? What the hell were the women doing, then?

Honestly, I don't know. I like to gather berries. But so does everyone else on the commune.

More importantly, red is not the color of high-calorie plant food. This totally defeats their thesis (that women remember where vital plant food sources are.) It suggests that if women like red and pink because red and pink are the colors of berries, then women were shitty gatherers, passing over nuts, roots, and seeds in favor of mandrake berries.

Red and pink ARE the colors of cut-open animals, tho. Maybe women are good at gathering because they want to have stuff to trade for meat, and a dude is more likely to swap steak for strawberries than for burdock

Okay, I had just homed in on this:

the fundamental assumption (point 1) is both debatable and useless in both cases

referencing

1. The gatherers, when people were still hunting-gathering, were women

And I think it's abundantly clear that the sexual dimorphism of modern humans isn't an accident or a relic. Although in VERY recent history, it's become somewhat of a relic thanks to MIGHTY HUMAN CULTURE (tm) -- which is nevertheless not as mighty as you think it is, I suspect.

I guess my question for you is: why aren't women armored tanks? Seriously, as defenseless as we apes are without our tools, why on earth are the wombtotes these pale shrivelled worms good for nothing but berry-picking? I blame everything on babies. ~o~;;

Here's my vision of the future: men get pregnant, pick berries, go hunting, and do all the work. Women live on large palatial estates and wage gentle lesbian wars with each other over control of the semen-supply lanes.