So, there’s all these cartoons that depict women being pulled around by their hair and that’s how the caveman ‘wooed’ her. Is this based on any factual evidence or is this some other weird part of male fantasies?
Are their actual cave paintings of Caveman dragging Cavewoman by the hair, pulling her to his lair? Are there entombed cavepeople caught in a ‘loving’ embrace, he with a fistful of hair? And also, how do we know cavemen carried clubs around with them? (and is this why men love baseball?
The author Timothy Benecke (Beneke?) in Men on Rape addressed it like this: [paraphrased]:
We have a commonly shared icon-like image of rape-as-everday, although we don’t think of it as such. If you ask people about “rape” most will say that we commonly deplore it as a violent, illegal, and intolerable crime. But ask them to visualize a caveman. Then ask them what the caveman is doing.
(We do all implicitly agree that the cartoonish caveman isn’t dragging her off to dismember and roast her for dinner or force her to clean up the mess in his cave, yes?)
So the image is a sort of cultural shorthand for the notion that under some ‘natural’, ‘unfettered’ circumstances, men would naturally rape women, if necessary by hitting them over the head with a baseball bat (or equivalent) until they are unconscious first.
Some modern women are incredibly aroused by hair pulling, within limits of course. It may be that this is not entirely unkown to the international society of stereotype cartoonists. All men are neanderthals and that isn’t always a bad thing.
Men love baseball because of beer and hot dogs. My fiancee who doesn’t drink can’t stand baseball.
[Homer Simpson (temporarily on the wagon)]I never realized how boring this game is[/HS]
