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  2. It might partly be because you don't know how to escalate without giving your power away. I'll try and find some videos from Toddy. I'll edit videos as i find them: Start 1:30 This one especially
  3. @Bjorn K Holmstrom Yes, and she’s bringing in a lot of modern social stuff that to me makes it clear there is a strong agenda in her work.
  4. @Jannes Good point. It’s unclear if the woman did a deep study in how those ancient cultures hunted, what they hunted or how. Not all cultures ran down their prey like a tribe would in an open plein…. Mega endurance might not be required if hunting in a group with intelligent well experienced hunters. In fact when hunting large animals strength and explosiveness could be key… It would be interesting also to look at the context for why some women hunted in some tribes but not others.
  5. @Wilhelm44 She is an interesting study. She is obviously well trained, and extremely light.
  6. @Ulax pulling, make out or escalating @Emerald Woman have an amazing spidey sense of how you are feeling, I can have that too with woman, but I would say that I don't want to only escalate when I am completly comfortable, because that would be settling for fear. I think rather I have to accept that I could get more harshly rejected and just deal with that. Now maybe stay away from the more typical bitchy girls, who are quick to judge, that might be a good start and just go to more kinder/softer girls for now.
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  8. Yeah, she's obviously an anomaly, even in ultramarathons, still I never would have thought it possible for any woman to beat men in such a feat of extreme endurance.
  9. But hunting a prey down isnt only about endurance running right? I mean thats the most important aspect of course but other things count as well. For the running itself, you may have to chase a little faster or slower sometimes, its probably not like you can settle on one speed. (where women are potentially best at) Along the chase you might encounter other predators you need to defend against. Or maybe your prey becomes agressive so you gotta fight. When going for the kill in the end, how dangerous is that still? If the animal still has a bit of fight in it, being fast and effective is important. Being a little robust when things get out of hand as well.
  10. I'm now reading the paper a bit. It does seem physical focused, but has some sociological considerations; on page 9 about how males are earlier socialized for sports performance and on page 15 about the role of fathers and alloparents enabling female participation. The article however seems to have skipped these considerations, like you say
  11. Yes, but you have to spend 160+ hours doing the fire kasina in 2 weeks. And everyone sees different things doing that.
  12. Im willing to be wrong on this. I’d rather find out what’s true. I’m gonna set this aside. Please give me grace to admit I’m wrong or that more nuance is required to clearly speak about this.
  13. Yes
  14. This NDE is interesting. It's worth a watch; I am GOD.
  15. @Wilhelm44 Those are Ultra-marathons and I’ve already stated the best is a woman. But, at marathons men dominate. The article uses marathons as the example. Men also dominate at Iron Man too, and cycling, and most endurance sport. Small women seem best designed for Ultra.
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  18. @Bjorn K Holmstrom The thing is, they are making a biological argument and working backward. Looking at the physical trates, hormones, hips, endurance. I know first hand women are very strong and capable physically, even if less so than the strongest men. But, the article doesn’t consider that humans live in a social environment. It’s not just physical ability that leads to task completion. From what I’ve seen, men and women likely both hunted. But, I’m not convinced they were primary hunters, or equal hunters in all tribes, in all or the majority of cultures. The article is full of issues: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-theory-that-men-evolved-to-hunt-and-women-evolved-to-gather-is-wrong1/ At one point it says marathoners female, and powerlifters male. The fastest marathoners are men, and biggest lifters are men… wtf. Men and women can do both. She looked at all these biological aspects of women, and worked backwards to say they could be good hunters. I agree they can be and are. That’s not really good science though. It doesn’t prove how overall survival lead most tribes. She does mention as well some archeological clues, and some example of good female hunters today. I don’t doubt women’s capabilities personally and I push back on them not being able to hunt because they were inferior. I’d like to admit not knowing here, and to remain open. I’m sort of hashing out my process and I’ll take it more personally to read and think about this subject.
  19. @Bjorn K Holmstrom Looks like the guy was referring to this article here not the actual paper. https://news.nd.edu/news/woman-the-hunter-studies-aim-to-correct-history/ But, even then it’s odd. Women better suited than men? I just don’t buy it.
  20. I know how it is to be swayed by my own agenda in the past, jumping to conclusions. But I think an agenda might be justified in certain situations too.
  21. Thanks 👍
  22. https://www.actualized.org/insights/countering-alternative-egyptology I watched this couple days ago, good proposed techniques of how they could have built pyramids. After watching these kinds of serious construction explanations (not alien crap), this seems much more realistic.
  23. @Elliott is on timeout to cool off
  24. Good point
  25. True but there are various reasonable aspects to feminism too
  26. @Bjorn K Holmstrom Thanks for sharing that. I realize I should have looked more closely. I approached the subject more generally than specific to the article.
  27. The paper's authors have PhD's in Anthropology. The Colonialism PhD belongs to the science writer who wrote the article about the paper, not to the authors of the paper. Not denying there might be agendas also among the researchers, just wanted us to have the facts right about what we are discussing. According to ChatGPT, the article's author has more of an agenda than the paper, which is more nuanced.
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