January 7, 2009

A deceptive signaling theory of The Eternal Ingenue





















  1. You really need to see this blog. These guys need your help so bad.

  2. Good god, how many times does it have to be said: DON'T MARRY AN ACTRESS!

  3. Someone wanted to leave this comment anonymously, but I don't know how to change names.



    I know two girls who both match the tendencies you are talking about. They are both incredibly charming, lively, and burn through men for hookups, though they avoid sex except when in a relationship (this is a combination of male-typical and female-typical mating strategies; they have enough masculinization for male-typical arousability and libido, but not enough to cancel out female-typical pickiness).

    They are both bisexual, though they prefer men. That's another sign of prenatal testosterone. One of them is a skilled artist, and spatial skills probably means even more prenatal T (and she is also more into women, has a more masculine voice, despises wearing dresses, and is not in a relationship while the other one is).

    They are both curvy, though this might just be from voluptuous women in the genetic background.

  4. Yeah, that was me. Blogger was being annoying.

  5. Agnostic,

    Charles Manson had big eyes.

    We *think* big eyes are innocent because they remind us of children's eyes, which are disproportionately large.

    Really, there is no such thing as an "innocent" face. Im sure there was a pretty nordic-looking-big-blue-eyed guard or two at the Lubyanka prison administering torture to political prisoners during the gulag who enjoyed it as much as the next sadist did.

    Nobody would suggest big ears equalled innocence. Its a facial feature.

    The little gal in the video is assuredly by now acutely aware of how her big eyes and cutesy face affect men around her. She probably gets tired to the nth degree of nice guys who gently approach her with a "lets snuggle" vibe wanting to softly kiss her baby face.

    To find a truly *innocent* girl in today's America, a man might literally have to go to where the quakers, mormons, strictest homeschooling babtists or church of God households in some boondock-far-from-the-interstate home that has no cable television. The greater culture at large (We have commericals for viagra in prime time) is going to rid post-adolescent youth of innocence very quickly.

    The big eyed girl in the video has thought about whether anal sex feels good/hurts, what cum tastes like, what it would be like to eat out a girl, what it would be like to fellate a guy with a huge penis, whether she will someday participate in group sex, how disgusting it is that her parents have sex, and how funny some fart jokes are. She probably misses being pre-adolescent and innocent but hormones have led her mind in the gutter like they do everyone elses and by "playing" at being innocent she probably fools a lot of people, but not herself.

  6. Patrick Bateman1/8/09, 9:04 AM

    Some androgens are known to affect androgen receptors differently in different parts of the body. Bodybuilders continue to search for the perfect steroid that only affects the androgen receptors in muscle but remains unbound in the brain and testes. The mechanism for these different affinities is not well known.

  7. I think I may have some of the basis for the dichotomy of feminine features and masculine body aspects. First let me throw out the term for "baby-faced" used in evolutionary biology as it applies to all humans in the sense that due to giant craniums, we all have to be born at a less developed stage than our simian ancestors. It's called:
    "neoteny" =

    This retention of juvenile appearance is most prevalent in children and women, but exists to a lesser degree in men as well. It's purpose is to inspire nurturing behavior in parents and or mates. I'm sure you will agree it's used to good effect by youthful looking women.

    As for the mix sexual morphology in the eternal ingenue, we can surmise a few things. First: if her testosterone exposure occurred too early in the womb, she would have developed morphologically as a male, with female DNA, or some hybrid like a hermaphrodite. While we have evolved to be born at more and more juvenile stages of development to allow our noggins to pass through the birth canal, the head is arguably the most developed aspect of a newborn. Therefore it's bone structure and development is more advanced than the remainder of the body at birth, and indeed for the first couple of years of life.

    We also know that for both genders the amount of testosterone in circulation is determined by the level of social dominance. Those women raised as alpha girls will have a higher testosterone level while the remainder of her body is developing morphologically to catch up with her head.

    Combine these facts and you would presume an ingenue is probably the product of a confident dominant girlhood while the bone structure in the head was largely formed before such external stimuli were present.

    The end product is a woman who is used to getting her way with a feminine body but a more masculine physique, like a Paris Hilton.


  8. I have met several of those. Always teasing, always laughing, a refreshment to men's usual seriousness.
    The actress on The L-Word (second left to right, top) is a perfect example of the type.

