Vandalism and the male psyche - 6-17-06

I often talk with my boys about male and female behaviors, which cross cultures and species. The male behavior I would like to talk about today is vandalism, which comes from Vandal, a barbarian group of the late Roman era that...you guessed it! was infamous for pillaging and plundering.

Here is a video, evidence that the behavior continues in males unabated.

The male's territoriality is expressed in several ways. He may stake out a territory of his own and fight to defend it, but this is less commonly seen until he begins to acquire significant property. In oneupmanship, males score more points and get more prestige by defeating other males in their territories and destroying property - belonging to anyone - than by maintaining their own territory.

I have said this crosses species. Look at the housecat. The female sets out a territory which is approximately the owner's property line, while the male merely uses the owner's property as a staging area from which to mount attacks on other male cats.

Human males also gain prestige by showing disrespect to females, not limited to property destruction. But gaining prestige by property destruction is so much a requisite of being male that males will destroy their own property if they do not have access to anyone else's, a tactic employed most often with items they neither paid for themselves nor are invested in - If I break this it will show disrespect for the person who bought it for me.Of course, ravaging hordes are not seen much these days, thanks to law enforcement, among other things. There are degrees in the expression of this behavior, too. So what happens in a classroom is that when the boys ask to borrow pencils, they are likely to immediately break them and leave the shattered pieces on the floor. A great many things are in play here. They are demonstrating that

• they can get away with small vandalisms


• they can be disrespectful to the teacher yet claim plausible deniability


• they are playing alpha male to sabotage the teacher's alpha positioning in class


• and they are using the pencil shards to mark out a passing territory in the room. I was here and look at what I did.
  

All of these are things that are immediately noticeable to the teacher who is aware, but may seem random to a teacher who is not clued in on sex-linked territorial behavior.

The draw to this behavior is so great that the male will perform it when it is clearly not in his own long-term interest. This counterproductive instinct runs in a different level of the brain than real thought, so boys who have never attempted deep thoughts will be unable to access it.

So a the boy who borrows colored pencils and breaks them, leaving the pieces on the floor, may be perplexed when his next request for materials is refused. He may be unable to comprehend that there is a connection between the fact that he broke what he borrowed one day and his request being refused on the next. He may presume that it is just the teacher being a bitch. His instinct is telling him that it is his male prerogative to break the teacher's things, and it is her female obligation to provide him with things to break!

Of course, there are counter-strategies that can be taken by the teacher who is aware. I have found that if the students are charged ten cents for a pencil they need, that it will become part of their actual territory (I exchanged something of value for it, and I made use of it.) and they are highly unlikely to destroy it then.

I don't want to hear any crap out of any of you boys about prejudice against males or the need to nurture your tender psyches. Consider that neither today nor through history have we heard about roving bands of females destroying property for the sake of destruction.

Vandals, Huns, Mongol Horde... do any of these names bring to mind women on horseback wielding weapons?

Commentary on Commentary - 6-7-06

A little more from John -

# John said, June 5, 2006 at 5:54 pm · Edit

Lol! I do seem to have hit a sore spot, haven’t I? I’m not going to waste my time attempting to deal with all of the falsities in your comment, since I don’t believe anyone who thinks that a particular group is superior to another based upon an accident of birth is really open to rational debate, but I did want to mention one thing.

Sore spot? Not likely. I just like to pick apart people's pathetic pseudo-arguments.

Any animal trainer can tell you that behavior is heritable. Aggressive dogs bred together will produce aggressive puppies. Animals with gentle temperaments pass them on to their offspring. And we are, of course, animals.

Behavior is a survival characteristic. People with certain behaviors were more likely to have produced surviving offspring in the past, which would result in them passing on these behaviors to their own offspring. These behaviors remain evident in the general population, irrespective of their relevance to modern society.

What behaviors are characteristic of males and females in the human species? Well, females will attempt to find a male who will stay at home to help her care for her young, thus increasing their chances of survival. Males will tend to attempt to keep a female under control at home in order to assure that she will stick around and raise his offspring, thus increasing their chances of survival to adulthood, while at the same time, he will attempt to sire as many more offspring by other females as possible, leaving the job of raising them to those females. Their chances of survival without a male in the wild might not have been great, but his investment was zero.

But we're still talking about historical times. Let's look back hundreds of thousands or millions of years ago, when our behaviors were taking hold of us.

Humans and pre-humans settled an inhospitable world sparsely. In fact, a lone human bereft of a tribe might not have run into another for years. To increase the chances of successful procreation, nature provided that whenever a male and fertile female met, he would be ready for mating.

Think of what this means. Your testosterone levels are so high that you're ready for sex at the drop of a hat. You think about sex every eight seconds. Tops. And you'd do almost anything for sex, even if it's risky. So the male would take great risks to get to the female for sex. The female did not take risks, as her breeding potential was much more important to the survival of the species than the male's.

Its funny that you pick Sweden as your example of successful socialism, since it is not in ‘fact’ socialist. Sweden is a mixed system of high-tech capitalism and extensive welfare benefits. Privately owned firms account for approximately 90% of industrial output. Privately owned means capitalism, not socialism.

Ooh, Sweden not a socialist country. News to them. Maybe we should try...Finland, where all public fees are based on your income level, so that a traffic ticket may cost you $50,000 if you're rich enough.

It sounds like what you are saying is that there aren't any socialist countries, and your argument is a red herring. Or are you planning on picking the most poverty-stricken and miserable country and assign it the classification "socialist" based on its poverty and misery quotient?

No doubt posting this was a waste of time, but it was a slow night anyway. And at least I had a good laugh reading some of the truly ridiculous inferences you made about me. Of course it’s my own fault, if I’d read your blog a little more carefully I wouldn’t of (sic) posted anything in the first place. Trying to discuss something rationally with you, would be like trying to have a reasoned debate with a member of the kkk, a waste of time. You both only see things through the twisted prism of your own ideology.

Though I have to admit people who hold the kind sick views that you do , hold a certain fasination for me. I mean, how do you come to the idea that some arbitrary grouping of people is better than another? Whether this grouping is based on race, nationality, or gender; this seems patently ridiculous to me. How can you judge someone just on the way they’re born? Whether it’s the color of thier (sic) skin, or thier ethnicity, or thier (sic) genitalia as seems important to you , it’s no way to judge a person. It’s the individual and what they do that matters, not the group they’re a part of.

I love people like this. If there were a god, it would have put them on earth to amuse me. It is so politically convenient to say that all people are exactly the same except for their own motivation. This makes it easy to take credit where none is due, and then to blame others for that which you are at fault. You see, there is no free will. You are controlled by your sex drive, typical sex-linked behaviors, and chance. You play out the roles of your ancestors, out of place and out of time. In another era you might have been killed and eaten by bears.

[In fact, there are quite a few politicians who I'm sure would be killed and eaten by bears within minutes if we released them into the wild...]

The pointless competitiveness of males is demonstrated in this very exchange. You have come to this blog to challenge my views because I don't agree with you that you are worthy, and you don't even know who I am. I challenge your perception of reality, and you must strike back, threatened by a woman who won't give you respect that you haven't earned. You see, you think you deserve adulation and respect of women because you have genitals. You take this as you badge of honor, like all other men, thinking that your genitals set you apart from other men. This is not something you are programmed to think deep thoughts about. In fact, you have been educated not to examine the bases of your beliefs.

The question of who I am and what kind of blog this is makes it all the more humorous that you have come here to trade arguments with me.

Since you obviously didn't notice, I'll clarify. This is a female superiorist femdom phone sex blog you are commenting in, and it is at least partly fiction and partly tongue in cheek. One of the blogs I keep was even started for the sole purpose of keeping track of a slave of mine.

Now for the news. I actually found an article in a science journal about a study demonstrating male bonding behaviors in lizards, my favorite reptile.Male side-blotched lizards with blue throats stake out territories next to each other, and will protect each other against bigger, more aggressive orange-marked side-blotched lizards, even though doing so is very risky to them, and even though they are not related.

Think about this. Previous research has shown that individuals in many species will risk their lives when the lives of blood relatives are at stake. How far lizards have come in developing this particular behavior, a behavior which is, of course, inherited from their parents, just like the behaviors I discussed above.

Curious, this male behavior.

Female superiority and bullshit - 6-4-06

Female superiority and...bullshit

So I finally sat down to update this blog, and what do I find but a comment from some dude who is trying to lecture me on the connection between socialism and poverty without knowing anything about socialism or (I presume) poverty. Did he need facts? No, of course not. He was able to manufacture his arguments out of thin air.

Sorry guy, I'm a believer in content. I know stuff. You don't know stuff. Why? Because when you went to school, they taught you that all opinions are created equal, all facts are created equal, and an opinion is as good as a fact. So you watch Fox TV, the propaganda arm of the republican party, where they manufacture lies at the drop of a hat, spread them with malice aforethought, and move on to the next set of lies as the press, having lost interest in fact-checking, serves as a pipeline for the lies.

No. If your opinion is not supported by the facts as they exist, you are only deluding yourself by manufacturing factoids to support some proposition that you don't even understand.

That which we call a rose

Now for the fun stuff.

Degree-wise, women dominate in once-male bastions

By Ben Fuller

Associated Press

Washington - Women now earn the majority of diplomas in fields men used to dominate - from biology to business - and have caught up in pursuit of law, medicine, and other advanced degrees.

Federal statistics released yesterday show women now also earn the majority of bachelor's degrees in business, history, and biological and social sciences...

And in disciplines where women trail men, they are gaining ground, earning larger numbers of degrees in math, physical sciences, and agriculture.

Women now account for about half the enrollment in professional programs such as law, medicine, and optometry, up from 22 percent a generation ago.

Despite the gains, women earn about 76 percent as much as men...and are underrepresented in full-time faculty jobs...

While women make gains, the enrollment of men in professional degree programs is declining.

Boys need to have their aspirations raised just as girls have, said Tom Mortensen, senior scholar for the Pell Institute...

"Women have been making educational progress, and the men are stuck," he said. "They haven't just fallen behind women. They have fallen behind the job market."

What? Examine the facts. A more correct statement would be, "Women have been making educational progress, and the men have fallen behind women in educating themselves and the job market."

Fallen behind...

We've talked about this before, guys who don't work in school and women who do. The sense of privilege boys have because they are male, and the fact that they have decided that life will come to them as easily as A's in middle school, because they're good, just for being guys.

And the fact that we put up with this in school in order to nurture their fragile egos, so they can discover learning by themselves, or choose to sit on their duffs and watch tv, then complain about bad grades and sue schools for discrimination against males.

There's too much freedom in modern society. Given freedom, males get lazy and express their creativity through gambling and aggressive competition, as the entry I have linked to shows. Men need to be controlled. Looks like women are the ones who will need to do the controlling, and they are studying hard to do that. Otherwise men will just be excess, useless, like drones at a beehive.

I'd be damned if I'd ever support a guy who was unemployed because he'd chosen not to bother learning in school. Can you spell 'drone'?

6-3-06

So much to catch up on.

I was at Shibaricon last weekend, and I'm still recovering. Shibaricon, you say? A Japanese rope bondage convention. There were 6 workshops running simultaneously for 3 days +, and three full nights of playtime. It's definitely a place to go to next year.

In fact, I learned some really useful stuff I was able to put to use almost immediately. A bad boy got sent to my office for being found in the girls locker room, playing with their panties. I dressed him up in girly clothes and hogtied him, took some cool pictures. Visit my website for more info.

5-18-06

Fossil evidence shows that humans and chimpanzees share a common ancestor from about 7 million years ago. Recently geneticists have been comparing genetic sequences to learn more about this. Guess what? The data show that although humans and chimpanzees split about 7 million years ago, they apparently did some interbreeding a little more than 5 million years ago.

According to an article in the paper, for the offspring to be fertile, it must have been a female, and it was probably the human male that mated with a female chimp. Male hybrids of this sort are sterile. Then, the offspring had to mate again with a proto-human. Eventually the population of the early proto-humans became extinct, leaving two lineages: the proto-chimps, and chimp hybrids, which evolved into us.

Among the numerous comments from the scientific community were remarks from those who could not believe that a "human" could bring itself to mate with a "chimp". Why, chimps walk on all fours and humans on two legs! Some pointed out that the difference was undoubtedly not as great at that time as it is now. Obviously nobody has considered the fact that this semi-interspecies mating was probably the result of a prehuman male falling head-over-heels in love with a chimpoid.

You kinky guys!

BBC News

Who says there's no humor in evolution?

Comments

2 comments:

Principal Quattrano's Toy said...

Of course it was a male who got it on with the lady chimp. And he brought her his bananna and all the nuts he had in the forest, too. Who knows just when superior females came to have low opinion of the male. It had to be very early on. We men are jerks, jerk-offs, and meant to be used by women. Women only allow men to sometimes believe that they are in control of things
9:48 PM
Principal Quattrano's Toy said...

Also, this fine lady chimp wouldn't look all that bad to our proto kinkman, anyway. 7 million years minus 5 million years is a mere 2 million years. Maybe it was all a matter of variety for kinkman. He was just tired and he probably wasn't married yet, anyway. That little ceremony is a recent thing. He was long dead before the male complaints about marriage must have begun in earnest. I wonder if Chimp Lady wanted all the nuts that he had gathered together to show her. I wonder when "shame" began, in this regard. Do chimps get red in the face, my dear Principal? Or is that the province of humans under the weight of civilization? Why are some of us males so pessimistic about male-female relationships? Why do some of us get "philosophical"? Like Arthur Schopenhauer. He said a married man will do anything for money. This is life, though. The individual is sacrificed in the service of life. Do you suppose Schopenhauer would have been an Internet wanker if he only had a computer? I'll just bet. pqt
7:11 AM

5-15-06

It looks like miscreants young and otherwise have decided to help law enforcement agencies with their work. Police are now hanging out on myspace, looking for members who boast about their crimes and indiscretions by putting up evidence, and there is no shortage of volunteers.

Hello?!? Pedophiles, thieves, conspirators, kids posting pics of their friends having sex, pictures of their drinking parties... The word that comes to mind is DUMBASS. Yes, that word just comes up again and again. So many wannabe dumbasses, it's like a competition to be the world's greatest dumbass.

The bravado in posting evidence of your rule- and lawbreaking on the internet is stunning, boys. Please continue to save my tax dollars on law enforcement. Thank you.

Visit my website for more keen insight into the tender young mind, and how it can be shaped with discipline, even if you thought it was years too late.

5/14/06 - a New Blog

As you can see, my toy has been a busy boy. I am starting this blog to help facilitate the linkage to my own blog and my website. Suffice it to say, there are so many bad boys out there in need of discipline and training, and there is so little time. I try to do my part to set the pathetic, useless boys on the straight and narrow before they turn into pathetic, useless men.

What can one girl do?

Editing in a note here: For older posts, you should visit my previous blog, which I have just (5/20/06) stopped updating. That blog is hosted on a site that puts lots of advertising on your blog template, and they prevent you from editing the template, which means your presence is making money for somebody else, but you can't remove their ads or run your own, and you therefore have limited control over the appearance of your template.

Control? Did somebody say control? I'm a control freak, but you knew that...