That's a fascinating, depressing and very insightful piece.
It takes me back to a conversation I had with an anthropology prof many years ago. Talking about gender (in the old-fashioned social sciences sense of socially constructed constraints imposed by a society on one sex or the other simply because people were of one sex or the other) she got onto the subject of domestic violence and how there was a documented phenomenon in some of the more war-like hunter gatherer tribes in some areas that women would tolerate, and even seem approving, of their spouses' domestic violence towards them on the grounds that the tribe's safety depended on one's menfolk being really agressive towards other tribes, and a bit of a spill over into the domestic sphere was not merely understandable, but a welcome and comforting reminder that you'd got yourself a right hard bastard who'd do the job of defending the tribe when need arose.
Terrifying. But if Stuart Parker's blog is right, we're not so far from that ourselves.
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