Mulligan compares this guise to ancient
male human violence, which he suggests conceals masculine vulnerability.
Not exact matches
This is the root of sexual
violence: The idea that women aren't autonomous
human beings with the right and ability to say yes to sexual interactions we want and no to those we don't, but that we're receptacles for
male sexual desire, that our bodies are up for grabs (literally, in this case).
The
violence - prone masculine psyche drives us to racism, colonialism, imperialism and other types of oppression which are in fact extensions of the
male - female pattern that lets us project the dark side of ourselves onto the other and so allows us to use / abuse other
human beings for our own selfish ends.
It is prepared to trust itself to one of the most notoriously unreliable features of
human existence — not only the pain and riskiness of
human gestation and childbirth, but also the whole of
human skittishness about
male honor, and the potential for
violence that goes with female dependency.
The patterns of collective
violence in which young chimp
males engage are remarkably similar to those of young
human males.
36 Richard Wrangham, Dale Peterson, Demonic
Males: Apes and the Origins of
Human Violence (Houghton Mifflin 1996).