It’s a relatively common idea that sexual selection works in exactly one way: males develop exaggerated traits (peacock feathers and stag’s antlers) to compete for female attention, because males want to spread their sperm everywhere while females want to only mate with the best. Unfortunately, it turns out that the real situation is more  complicated. [...]






















“Straight men learned from gay men that physically affectionate, emotionally intimate friendships are not unmanly.”
These are comments by David May and Rick on the post “For The Love Of God, Please Stop Saying ‘Bromance’”.