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[paigetheoracle]

Originally Posted by Michaelangelica

Yes i can understand That.
But is that the full story?
For many that would engender just frustration or disappointment rather than anger. So could male overreaction be part of the problem?

Probably

• Males biologically and genetically are surely here to protected the female and children and to provide for them. Yet there seems to be a lot of occasions when this does not happen often to a criminal degree. How come this aggression so obviously against our own genetic interests?
  
  Because of selfishness and short sightedness in males, whose only interest is in short term gratification, unlike females, who are the real care givers by role because they care for the future more than the males (child minders, not just child givers through sex)
  
• Males tend to need status and position in a group. Typically males define themselves as their job, unlike females who seldom seem to. The first question a male asks strange, or just met 'other', is, "What do you do?". Would threats to this status engender aggression?
  
  All ego stuff
  
• Would loosing said job lead to confusion, self-loathing and anger with self thus leading to aggression and/or depression?
  
  Most definitely YES
  
• Role models. What effect does this have? "My Dad taught me to box" "My hero is Some ape like footballer". Violent video or media. Violent religions like Judaism Islam and Christianity. Violet societies (Russia? Iraq, New Guinea, Africa (bits of), Afghanistan, USA?). If one cannot relate to this violence does that make for social displacement, anger and depression?

It only leads to anger and depression, if you want to be a part of it



"Happiness is overrated. Nobody ever accomplished anything great while they were happy."

Too damn true with regards to the cartoon! If we didn't want anything as the ancients teach us, we'd be happy with our lot and healthy. It is this striving to be accepted/ acceptable that is the problem ("Conform, conform - do things my way! Conform, conform - do what I say!"). As I say all ego stuff

Another obvious connection (to me at least) is erectile dysfunction and depression, which can also be artificially induced by alcohol, a depressant itself