4 - Why do men duel?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2011
Summary
Our cast of characters now includes a motley crew of flyters, rappers, orators, sounders, debaters, insulters, Romeos, jokers, comedians, and clowns. What is going on here? What special connection exists between men and all these sex- and dominance-oriented verbal performances?
In the previous chapters, there were hints that dueling is inspired by something embedded in the biological make-up of human males. But we cannot content ourselves with hints. No, if we are to understand why men duel, we must seriously look for factors that cause and shape this way of acting. If the disposition to duel is a biological trait, it should be possible to see that this is so ??? not by looking outside men, at the things going on around them, but by examining factors that operate within them.
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- Duels and DuetsWhy Men and Women Talk So Differently, pp. 76 - 101Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011