Perhaps she really wasn't all that creeped out, but that doesn't excuse his
behavior at the time, and *certainly* doesn't excuse him thinking, in
retrospect, that it was an OK thing to do. I've done things in the past that
I now see as unacceptably sexually aggressive, but I'm not proud of it, and
while I don't see sexual exploitation as being exponentially worse than
other forms of mistreatment motivated by selfishness, it's certainly
dishonorable. Hypersexuality can *explain* why some young men act in
ways they shouldn't, but it doesn't *justify* it.
There are other guys here who clearly don't respect women, and I don't
mean that they don't respect other persons here who happen to be
women. That's fine, but they feel they've been mistreated by women,
and that male supremacy is the natural order. In the genus, *Pan*, our
closest extant relatives, we have two species, *Pan troglodytes* (the
common chimpanzee), and *Pan paniscus* (the pygmi chimpanzee).
They are genetically very similar, but the former is decidedly patriarchal,
and the latter, more matriarchal.
My life experiences have given me a fairly balanced, or at least more
nuanced perspective on patriarchy and sociobiology than guys who
don't feel that the most satisfying aspects of their lives were those
experienced in the context of hetero pair bonds. How much of that is
my own merit, and how much dumb luck? I'd like to think merit, but
realistically, I just got got lucky, especially in my current situation.
OK, I'll shut up now. Dinner post and pix tomorrow.
--Bryan