[quote]KBCThird wrote:
EmilyQ wrote:
KBCThird wrote:
EmilyQ wrote:
Um, the historic view of women as a commodity?
i touched on that by using the phrase “share them” and actually had a whole other paragraph about it typed up, but deleted it cuz i felt i took the discussion off on a tangent
Okay, well, tangent or not, I do have background in the areas mentioned, and I’m saying that the commodification of women and the children they bear is the answer to the question.
Not to put too fine a point on it, because i dont think we’re disagreeing at all, but I think that just rephrases the OP’s question from “Why don’t people share their women if doing so would benefit the species as a whole” to “Why dont people share their commodities if doing so would benefit the species as a whole.”
Because people - and any living organism, really - are inherently selfish concerned with their OWN survival and prosperity over that of the group, is the answer.[/quote]
So “because people are selfish” is your answer? Okay, fine. I don’t disagree.
My answer to the OP, as you’ve phrased his question above, is that people do share their daughters. Historically, they do so for a price. Even now, what dad wouldn’t hand his princess over to a wealthy man?
But that wasn’t the question. The question, as I understood it, was “what is the root of this protectiveness men feel for their daughters?” And the answer is protecting the commodity that is her virginity, essentially.