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Originally Posted by jwb
conditioning is a vague term. Technically natural selection is conditioning. But typically that word seems to have a connotation that it's a arbitrary social convention that is not grounded in any sort of biology, imo. In which case no that wouldn't be appropriate here.
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You're right that it is vague, so is biology though. Does that mean purely genetics, for example, to what extent are women
genetically inclined to prefer tall men? Maybe I use the word conditioning weirdly, but I mean something like 'anything imposed by the outside world through a continuous creeping influence'.
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Originally Posted by jwb
As for it only causes harm... That's true of some biological impulses. I'm not sure i see why that's true with regard to women being more selective sexually. Frankly I guess I don't see the harm there.
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that's true, there are some harmless aspects to gender conventions, but as a whole the concept sucks in every way