Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Evolutionarily superior males? Please.

My readers often come to this site looking for eHarmony advice. And after reading what this site has to offer, they become curious about the "seduction community" that I refer to in my postings.

As always, I encourage readers to explore, and discover for themselves what is useful for them.

Not all schools of seduction agree. Many espouse very narrow-minded ideas of what works, and what doesn't.

Some of their points are very valid. They point the things that other people have tried. They report what, in their experience, works - and what doesn't.

But, some get a little too big for their britches.

Not only do they close their minds as to what effective technique is (or isn't), but they construct biological explanations for their beliefs. They talk about how they're taking advantage of mental mechanisms honed from millions of years of evolution, and boiling it down into simple technique.

Powerful stuff. Who can argue with millions of years of evolution?

The trouble is... I don't know of any leaders in the seduction community who are experts in evolutionary biology. And it's easy to say that an observation is the result of a process of millions of years of evolution. You might even be able to come up with a plausible story as to how it evolved.

But actually proving that an observation is a result of an evolutionary process? That's extremely rare. And, in my humble opinion, no one in the seduction community has succeeded in doing more than putting together a cogent "just so" story.

Anyway, if you want to read a real scientific article on the same errors that the "seduction artists" make in their espousal of supposed evolutionary theory, give this a read. It's a classic article.

And it cuts straight to the core of this evolutionary pseudo-science.

Don't get me wrong. The leaders of the seduction community make great observations. You'd be foolish to ignore them.

Just ignore the "biological superiority" crap.

2 comments:

Dave said...

Maybe they can get Al Gore as their spokesman.

Scott Grey said...

Moderator's warning: Any further discussion of Al Gore will be deleted as off-topic.