Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id AAA18708 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Sat, 21 Apr 2001 00:59:16 +0100 Message-ID: <20010420235553.25747.qmail@awcst094.netaddress.usa.net> Date: 20 Apr 2001 19:55:53 EDT From: "Emilio M.Recio" <n2wog@usa.net> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Genetic transmission of phallic attraction?!? [was Re: memes and sexuality] X-Mailer: USANET web-mailer (34FM.0700.16C.01) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Robin Faichney <robin@ii01.org> wrote:
> Anyone who seriously suggested that gun use itself could be genetically
> determined would deserve to be treated as a joke.
>
> A genetically transmitted tendency to be attracted to phallic power
> symbols, though, is another matter, which I think only a rabid
> anti-psychologist or the like could insist should not be taken
> seriously.
Robin,
You are kidding are you? Does this mean that our genes determine what we are
attracted to? Non-sense.... again a bio-reductivist viewpoint. You might as
well *say* that we are attracted guns because, by proxy, the assertion could
be made.
Power symbols are very culturally relative... even common tendencies within
populations are disparate enough between populations to dismiss any genetic
links. Consider the wiccan religion... applying the inverse statement: *lack
of attraction to phallic power* is also genetically transmitted? Is it at all
possible that the ancient cultures noticed a correlation between the moon
cycles and the female's menstrual cycle? From that correlation they abstracted
(brought from the REAL world to the abstract world) a certain mysticism in
female... hence female worship (which was, and somewhat continues to be the
seminal idea in the Wiccan religions.)
Best Regards,
E. M. Recio
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