They aren't; a refusal to identify as a competitor (and instead to identify with the mother/"women") is equivalent to a "signaling drive", but it also suggests a psychosexual causal mechanism in addition to describing the behavior. I figure Freud wouldn't invent a new word.
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you really don't wanna go down the r-strategist rabbit hole though
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with a few freak exceptions I bet r-strategists are more successful in monogamisty relationships thats what im betting on anyway
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society mostly makes sense (I think?) as a novel framework where lots of people with bundles of traits, some of which are fixed and some of which are quite flexible, struggle with the fixed ones where they don't fit (or prosper when they fit v well)
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but these days were all in thrall to the superorganisms growing all around us humans havent been free for a long-ass time and were gonna be less so in the future is my guess some nights even sober I can nearly see the nameless guiding egregores stretching out to the stars
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i mean, it sounds like he even knows what he should be doing, that once you're not just flailingly incompetent and insecure you use that security as a basis to open up a little and allow vulnerability so you can not just be an empty suit of armor, he's just not *doing* it
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yeah my guess is . . . he cant :/
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