| p>Violence has two types of causes: proximate, and | | | | friends. In doing this, they remove the opportunity |
| ultimate. Proximate causes are those such as social | | | | for their mate to make new social connections, and |
| status, financial status, family values, religion, etc., etc. | | | | thus have access to more potential mates. This tactic |
| The ultimate cause is evolutionary psychology. | | | | also works to prevent the woman from receiving |
| Violence is so prevalent, that its frequency negates | | | | information (such as encouragement or flirting) that |
| the idea that it is merely an anomaly. | | | | would indicate that they are, in fact, of high value - |
| The vast field of material available on evolutionary | | | | thereby increasing the likelihood of them leaving the |
| psychology suggests that psychological and physical | | | | abuser. |
| abuse have come into being as evolutionary stables | | | | Evolutionary psychologist David M. Buss states in his |
| strategies - designed to hold on to long-term love. | | | | book "The Murderer Next Door" that: |
| Men's violence against women in relationships is | | | | "Abuse, intense mate guarding, and sequestering all |
| usually attributed to proximate causes and sociological | | | | serve the diabolical function of tethering women to |
| data such as cultural memes, patriarchal societies, | | | | damaging relationships." |
| pathology and psychosis, etc. | | | | To support social programs for reforming behaviour is |
| These explanations are incorrect, because they fail to | | | | good, but it is tantamount to filling a bucket with a |
| take into account the fact that in the larger, | | | | leak in it, and the water is emptying faster than you |
| evolutionary picture - men are actually in competition | | | | can fill the bucket. To solve the problem of violence, |
| with other men for reproductive access. To be | | | | we must attack the root of the problem - violence |
| united in an affront to all women, they would have | | | | as an evolutionary adaptation. How? There is new |
| to work in tandem, and this just doesn't fit with the | | | | promising study in the field of epigenetics to suggest |
| notion of being in competition with each other. | | | | a not-too-distant solution of gene-alteration. There |
| Men's abuse towards women in relationships typically | | | | are ethical questions that need to be wrestled with, |
| damages the woman's self-esteem. When her | | | | but imagine the possibilities!!! I make my living teaching |
| self-esteem is damaged, she feels less desirable, and | | | | people self-defense skills to protect themselves from |
| is therefore led to feel "lucky" that she has the man | | | | violence, but I certainly look forward to a future |
| she's with. | | | | where these skills are needed less than they are |
| Male perpetrators of abuse also typically limit, if not | | | | today. |
| remove entirely, social ties to their mate's family and | | | | |