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2017-04-02 -Short Attention Span Theater-

AncestryDNA: I thought I was Irish, but I'm actually Tibetan Mosuo

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-04-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 Men are little more than studs, sperm donors who inseminate women but have, more often than not, little involvement in their children’s upbringing.

It is inspiring.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-04-02 01:11|| 2017-04-02 01:11|| Front Page Top

#2 "Igrew up in a world where men are the bosses,"

An old Russian saying: "Man is the King of his family - unless you take a longer look and notice that his crown is his wife's shoe."

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-04-02 03:51|| 2017-04-02 03:51|| Front Page Top

#3 "I grew up in a world where men are the bosses,"

Couldn't have anything to do with 10,000+ years of evolution of which the last 4,000 recorded societies mainly of tribal, territorial and hierarchical organizations who fought and warred over resources? That it was successful males who allowed their tribes to flourish in that environment by paying the ultimate price in death and dismemberment? That maybe you exist in an artificial cocoon of the late 20th/early 21st century that can come crashing down if you keep, in your self centered ignorance, hammering at the foundations of its civilization? However, you refuse the notice the barbarian already awaiting just outside looking for an opportunity to erase over 500 years of progress.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-04-02 09:14|| 2017-04-02 09:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Wife has talked about this one over the decades and showed me various Chinese documentaries of the tribe. They don't take well to outsiders. All the land has been in the families for hundreds of years and it is more complicated then this suggests. The homes are not without men. The men are the brothers and fathers. The "sperm dornors" are the boyfriend(s). Usually one guy for decades or a lifetime. He lives with his sisters brothers and parents and supports the family home. Same with the girl.

Posted by 3dc 2017-04-02 13:01|| 2017-04-02 13:01|| Front Page Top

#5 It keeps inheritance simple

Posted by 3dc 2017-04-02 13:02|| 2017-04-02 13:02|| Front Page Top

#6 Think about neither sex launching from the family home and you have it.
Also a very physically large home.

Posted by 3dc 2017-04-02 13:03|| 2017-04-02 13:03|| Front Page Top

#7 Yah, 3dc, I am under the impression that sort of pattern, or variations of it, were common in Yunnan in the old days.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2017-04-02 16:08|| 2017-04-02 16:08|| Front Page Top

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