Why Women Think Men Are Idiots
Factually Unsupported Musings
Women think men are idiots because we act like such. Let me paint you a little picture:
“(...) Then he got jealous and very angry and made a scene because I said hello to my friend.” That’s part of a statement from an anecdote I recently heard from a friend about a guy she was dating.
“What an idiot!” I said to her, but then I got to thinking about this so-called idiot. Why would he get so nasty just because she said hi to a friend? Of course, I didn’t ask her about their whole history together, but had I done that, perhaps I would have discovered why he felt so insecure, or maybe I would have just ascertained that she was a well-behaved, caring girlfriend and his insecurity didn’t stem directly from her but from a deeper, solely personal place.
OK, let’s assume the latter is true. What if men are often so insecure about women being around other men because of evolution or something? Maybe 50,000 years ago, when all men were hunter-gatherers and women stayed home, they already feared another man, perhaps a Neanderthal, might snatch their woman away from them.
If this were the case, then, well, we’re fucked, as this is hence inescapable at the moment.
However, men don’t always display their insecurities; sometimes they disguise them quite well. But how about if we could do something better than just hiding them? What if men somehow managed to intellectualize those insecurities to the point where they make complete sense from a logical standpoint?
Let’s look at it this way:
Human Nature + (Your Woman + Other Men) = Insecure Boyfriend
But what if the result were instead: Insecure, yes, but also sensible boyfriend?
That’s different.
Then, let’s go back to my friend’s then-boyfriend. Had he been able to comprehend that human beings are more often than not in a state of false “control” or no control at all over their emotions or reactions, then perhaps he would have been able not to feel so insecure when they went out, and especially when every other man looked at his woman in a certain way.
I know I’m contradicting myself because if men are at the mercy of their emotions, how is said boyfriend supposed to exercise control over his jealousy? Well, I don’t know.
I’m just saying that it might be possible, particularly for men, to reach such a state of awareness over our flawed nature that could prevent us from arguing and fighting over often inane matters, thus avoiding having women think we’re idiots.
Agreed?
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Ahem...
Why do you assume women stayed home and gathered while the men went out and hunted? New studies find that women were just as involved in the hunt as the men were. Here's a quote from NPR:
"Women had their own toolkit. They had favorite weapons. Grandmas were the best hunters of the village.".... "the majority of cultures for whom hunting is important train their girls and their women to make their tools and go hunting,"
So, if men are behaving badly it's because they were, and are, jealous of Grandma's cool bow and arrows and of her stick with a big rock thingy attached.
As a side note. I don't think all men are idiots. Just the ones who don't listen to their mothers.