It was called evolutionary biology. Under its sway, the sexes were separated again, men into hunters and women into gatherers. Nurture no longer formed us; nature did. Impulses of hominids dating from 20,000 B.C. were still controlling us. And so today on television and in magazines you get the current simplifications. Why can't men communicate? {Because they had to be quiet on the hunt.} Why do women communicate so well? {Because they had to call out to one another where the fruits and berries were.} Why can men never find things around the house? {Because they have a narrow field of vision, useful in tracking prey.} Why can women find things so easily? {Because in protecting the nest they were used to scanning a wide field.} Why can't women parallel-park? {Because low testosterone inhibits spatial ability.} Why won't men ask for directions? {Because asking for directions is a sign of weakness, and hunters never show weakness.} This is where we are today. Men and women, tired of being the same, want to be different again.
( Jeffrey Eugenides )
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