The GeekBrainsTrust has put me onto a handful of demographic/social anthropology books that sound very interesting.
I loved Faith Popcorn's trend mapping and I fell in love with a book called Body Bazaar, as well as Victoria Finlay's 'journeys'.
These sound good - Jared Diamond and Bernard Salt, very apocalyptic - but, discussing them (and remember, I have yet to read them) we got talking about one in particular called 'man drought' about the perceived lack of 'prime males' as partners.
I wonder...can you be redefined as prime male just by being with a prime female?
Think about it. By definition, you've won!
You've taken up the spear and hunted down the ultimate prize (I guess the caveman hunter metaphor goes a bit astray here because they get to go out hunting at least three times a week and, you know, you wouldn't want to be eating the same bison every day...)
Can a beta man with an alpha female lobby for an upgrade?
I told my Wednesday Band about the 'man drought' and 'prime male' designations and every one of them went ‘shit, that leaves us out then’.
The Penisist has an interesting theory that all married women see themselves as prime females, that the process of having a partner is the definition of success (again, I'm fucked) but he's also feeling a bit sore because his friend was talking about someone getting divorced for the second time as 'damaged goods' and he's onto his third divorce.
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