By Claude Mills, Staff ReporterDOES THE primitive genetic code of young women force men to adopt a 'playa' Image?
Is there a sensitive man hoax out there?
If you listen to women talk, you would believe that they want men who are sensitive and caring. However, in reality, most young women under the age of 30 tend to snub the shy guys and nuke the nerds. They often go for the Lexus-driving, baby-mother-dodging Don Juans who either break their heart or their face - whichever comes first.
Some men are increasingly frustrated by the kind of roles they are forced to play to attract young women.
"Women always say they want sensitive guys who listen, but I think this is bull. Maybe older women want sensitive guys, but the young girls are different. When I tried to be sensitive, girls dissed me, but when I pretend to be a girl's man by dressing flashy, being confident and talking the talk, young women are breaking down my door," Garfield Robinson, a computer technician, said.
Evolutionary behaviour dictates that males must compete for access to females of child-bearing age by competing with each other physically for resources necessary to mate, and for the sexual attention of females. Secondly, a male's reproductive success depends on how many females he mates with, and not vice versa. To be less than an alpha male is to commit 'Darwinian suicide', hence the sensitive man image won't necessarily attract young, nubile women of child-bearing age.
Society reinforces this sort of primitive hardwiring developed over several eons in the human genetic code. For instance, in the recent play, Oliver and the Genie, the female lead character is attracted to the most dangerous character in the play, a rebellious slave, 'Takku', instead of a cowardly man who is madly in love with her.
"Women are attracted to power in any form it comes in business, sports. They are drawn to aggressive men, you can forget all the modern day talk about tentative men because in many ways, the aggressive male, the alpha male is the one who always gets to mate. That is hardwired into our genetic code," said Kingston psychologist Dr. Leahcim Semaj.
THE PLAYA IMAGE
The powerful male often adopts the 'playa' image, one which has been refined by several generations of males.
Teenage boys first begin to adopt it when they develop that cocky, gravity-defying bounce they use to exude masculinity and impress teenage girls. The 'playa' image comes later and is a representation of confidence, strength and security because the 'playa' is the ultimate alpha male.
"A true playa doesn't take anything from anyone. He has several women and they obey him, and more women want him because if he has that many women, he must be good in bed. He is 'the man'," Tyrone Wright, a 22 year-old university student, explained.
