Without modern science, paternity cannot be observed, only enforced (see (1)).
You left out a few important ones:
3. A man can potentially impregnate many women.
4. Having a man to help raise a woman’s children greatly increases their prospects (this is the reason your (2) matters).
5. Unlike his sperm, a man’s attention is a rather limited resource.
So, women would prefer to have children by an alpha male. They would also prefer to find a beta male to help raise them (they would like even more to have the alpha male raise them but see (5)). Men don’t what to raise children that aren’t theirs.
Having a man to help raise a woman’s children greatly increases their prospects
This is no longer true in countries where women can earn their own living.
So, women would prefer [...]
Don’t generalize. Women are individuals, not a monolithic bloc.
Men don’t what to raise children that aren’t theirs.
Again, don’t generalize. I’d much rather adopt an orphan than increase the amount of living people, all the while knowing my genes would much rather be copied. I don’t fear my moral inclinations will be outbred; I can just teach them to my adopted children. Every man (and woman, and genderless person, and all variations thereupon) has hir own motivations and interests. Ignoring individual differences is one of the problems with this particular brand of sexism.
Why betas should have longer attention span than alphas?
...seriously?
The point Azathoth is making is that there is only so many hours in a day. An alpha male may sleep with many women, but he can only give his attention to one or a few. Beta males, who are lucky to have one woman, are free to concentrate all their attention on her and her children. Therefore, females who fail to attract the alpha male for anything but a quickie have a preference for fooling beta males into raising the resulting alpha male’s children. Beta males, obviously, do not share this preference.
Beta males, who are lucky to have one woman, are free to concentrate all their attention on her and her children.
But this is not a successful reproduction strategy. If your genes dictates that you devote all your attention to a female that already has one children that is not yours, then your genes will be marginalized very quickly. Thus, only short attention span children are raised.
Really, can you show me where?
You left out a few important ones:
3. A man can potentially impregnate many women.
4. Having a man to help raise a woman’s children greatly increases their prospects (this is the reason your (2) matters).
5. Unlike his sperm, a man’s attention is a rather limited resource.
So, women would prefer to have children by an alpha male. They would also prefer to find a beta male to help raise them (they would like even more to have the alpha male raise them but see (5)). Men don’t what to raise children that aren’t theirs.
Any library or bookshop.
This is no longer true in countries where women can earn their own living.
Don’t generalize. Women are individuals, not a monolithic bloc.
Again, don’t generalize. I’d much rather adopt an orphan than increase the amount of living people, all the while knowing my genes would much rather be copied. I don’t fear my moral inclinations will be outbred; I can just teach them to my adopted children. Every man (and woman, and genderless person, and all variations thereupon) has hir own motivations and interests. Ignoring individual differences is one of the problems with this particular brand of sexism.
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I find this to be the weakest point. Why betas should have longer attention span than alphas?
...seriously?
The point Azathoth is making is that there is only so many hours in a day. An alpha male may sleep with many women, but he can only give his attention to one or a few. Beta males, who are lucky to have one woman, are free to concentrate all their attention on her and her children. Therefore, females who fail to attract the alpha male for anything but a quickie have a preference for fooling beta males into raising the resulting alpha male’s children. Beta males, obviously, do not share this preference.
But this is not a successful reproduction strategy. If your genes dictates that you devote all your attention to a female that already has one children that is not yours, then your genes will be marginalized very quickly. Thus, only short attention span children are raised.