Subtle and not so subtle psychological signs indicate poor emotional health, let us say from an evolutionary psychology perspective. As mentioned, a male of poor class will not take on other males, whether in battle or competition, but will seek to build his self esteem a notch higher by picking on already vulnerable females. This is a sign, or symptom rather, of evolutionary poor health. Such a male still wants to feel the pleasure of conquering, of putting something down, but he does not want to win the right to that pleasure legitimately. He acknowledges his own weakness by attacking those who have been set back by historical circumstances. He attacks women.
And then there are those who lean heavily on the patriarchy, on socially prescribed group think, in order to consolidate their positions in society. They may even come down with sympathetic sickness in honour of one particular patriarch or another. These are the weak -- those who haven't developed a backbone yet.
And there are those who lean heavily on patriarchal rhetoric -- as though they were in fact the individual innovators of this rhetoric, when in fact we have heard it all before.
Those are the curmudgeons of the spirit -- the ones whose very manner of speech advertises that they have learned nothing.
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