>>82186296>men evolved under and continue to live within a highly competitive, Darwinian sexual environment with intense pressures that leaves many males disenfranchised>rape is the product of this Darwinian environment>"I make no excuses for this. There are none. But as a man I felt vaguely attuned to this mind-set or its possibility. I did not inhabit it."Women can get so close, but always seem to escape the full understanding of the male condition and what is necessary for the continuation of genes which organisms strive towards over all else.
>"I saw how rejection might get twisted beyond recognition."What is being twisted beyond recognition? As Jordan Peterson once said, and I paraphrase, Mother Nature, in the guise if that particular woman, says you're not so bad for a friend but I have no reason to believe your genes should propagate to the next generation. What is being twisted here? The implicit statement "Your genes are trash. YOU are genetic trash." in rejection cannot be escaped.
Norah secretly knows what is going on here. She subtly admits this in a Freudian slip: "Sex is most powerful in the mind, and to men, in the mind women have a lot of power, not only to arouse, BUT TO GIVE WORTH, SELF-WORTH, MEANING..." She was still a woman, and so could not make that final leap to completing the circle of the male journey.