IsabellaLinton wrote:
Wait, if we aren't pretty enough men are embarrassed to be seen with us.
But ... if we're too pretty it's a blow to their self-esteem?
I can not enumerate all the behaviors of young couples that are designed to indicate to others that there is a pair bond and the partners are off limits.
I know they exist because it is part of Sociology 101. Behavior of young couples is what is programmed into our DNA. The behavior of non reproductive individuals is not replicated.
Here is a proposition: The crux of the female imperative is the desire for females to have sole decision making in deciding who has sex with who.
Perhaps, the actions of young couples speak louder than words for both males and females.
Perhaps, the people who say “it does not matter in the least” are bowing before the female imperative with rhetoric not backed by actions.
Perhaps it is the female imperative to shame challenges to female sexual choice even if the female is within a relationship.
All the while, both males and females are signaling that they are a couple until one of them doesn’t signal that fact. Then, the person on the receiving end is suppose to ignore it especially is they are male because the female imperative is the predominant narrative.
I am not arguing that it should not be the predominant narrative. I am just saying that as an individual it is nice sometimes not to be bamboosaled.
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