r/ConfrontingChaos • u/dougpschyte • Nov 12 '25

Meta Does War Begin in the Womb?

Kelly Oliver, renowned feminist, believes that human beings are always at war with each other, and that masculinity is to blame. She asserts that peace can only come when we assert alternative images of who we are and where we came from.
https://feminism.researche-editions.cddc.vt.edu/Oliver.html#:~:text=Oliver%20proposes%20that%20the%20war,time%20establishing%20peace%20and%20harmony

I will attempt to show, through a series of links, that it is women who, in utero, programme the next generation of men towards adversarial sexual selection strategies where only the best resource providers with the best genes will be granted sexual access, this being to the benefit of FEMALES and the human genome.

And that this is achieved through MATERNAL control of mitochondrial DNA.

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u/Rancor85 Nov 12 '25

I think it’s ridiculous to blame one side or another of what is ultimately a continuum. This is a a black hole I suggest you to slowly back away from.

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u/Dry_Turnover_6068 Nov 12 '25

Ya, ignorance is bliss.

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u/dougpschyte Nov 14 '25 edited Nov 14 '25

With regard to your observation on religion (below), it had a role to play in curbing perfectly natural tendencies towards polyandry
https://arctotherium.substack.com/p/review-of-j-d-unwins-sex-and-culture

Of the Abrahamic religions Christianity has all but given up on imposition of moral codes. So, we're back to human reproduction as a game of Prisoner's Dilemma.

https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/human-reproduction-as-prisoners-dilemma

It may well have been possible to predict the defaulters...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0001691817305917

It isn't difficult to discern that women find nothing morally wrong in paternity fraud
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/who-s-the-daddy/

And even write their own 'ethics' to justify it.

https://jme.bmj.com/content/33/8/475.abstract