Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id NAA27327 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Fri, 15 Jun 2001 13:49:12 +0100 Subject: Re: Mooning Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 08:45:21 -0400 x-sender: wsmith1@camail2.harvard.edu x-mailer: Claris Emailer 2.0v3, Claritas Est Veritas From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu> To: "memetics list" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Message-ID: <20010615124523.AAA25897@camailp.harvard.edu@[128.103.125.215]> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On 06/15/01 03:21, Metascience said this-
>The act of mooning may have various meanings:
>1. a prank
>2. a provocation against sexual norms
>3. an expression of contempt.
>
>In the 1987 study, mooning was just a childish prank. Yesterday in
>Gothenburg, it was certainly an expression of contempt.
>
>Sociologists would argue that the word, the act, and its meaning are
>strongly tied together. Most memeticists probably agree that these three
>spread together as a meme complex.
>
>The meme may get its fitness from pushing a sexual button, according to
>Brodie's theory (2).
I always viewed mooning as pretty much a display reflex, like that of
baboons.
- Wade
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