Why Men are Childish
Wednesday, October 08 2008 @ 07:49 PM PDT
Men are childish because of women, or Darwin, or maybe
both.
Women love children. This is good, because the human species would
not have survived very long if we men had to take care of
them.
Women seem programmed for it. It's reasonable to think that perhaps
there is a genetic component; that this behavior is
hardwired.
It's deep, that's for sure. Many a husband has found, with the
arrival of his first child, that he is now running a distant
second. Every eye movement, facial gesture, smile and even belch or
burp is greeted with enthusiasm by the woman he married. An
intelligent woman, able to discuss affairs of the day, scientific
and intellectual, suddenly becomes perfectly happy to goo-goo in
mindless abandon with the child.
It's probably an evolutionary thing. It makes sense that the babies
who survived had mothers who were fascinated by their looks and
behavior and both the mothers and the babies evolved to mutually
reinforce this as a matter of species survival.
As women evolved to be fascinated with childish behavior, men were
evolving as well. It's also a matter of species survival that women
have to be attracted to men at least long enough to produce
children. What better way to attract women than to plug in to
attractions they already have?
So men evolved to have childish behavior and women evolved to
mother their men.
At least until the first child comes along.
hmmmm.... i somewhat disagree with the part "women love
children".
not all women love children. some don't, probably because they
find children noisy, troublesome and burdensome.
and usually, these are the ones who don't want children, even
after marraige. they just want to continue to enjoy freedom or a
world for two only.
it's something which i still don't quite comprehend till
now.
in that case, a marraige is not even necessary. just cohabiting
will do.