Elle Beau ❇︎
1 min readNov 27, 2020

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I've quoted her to you -repeatedly. How is that cherry picking? You are grasping at straws because you don't actually understand her work because it goes against your preconceived ideas.

Here's something (written by a man, I might add) that describes Mothers and Others:

"In Mothers and Others, she situates this pivotal mother–infant pair not in an empty expanse of savanna, waiting for a man to arrive with his killed game, but where it actually belongs, in the dense social setting of a hunter-gatherer or, before that, an ape or monkey group. Hrdy argues convincingly that social support was crucial to human success, that compared with other primates, humans are uniquely cooperative, and that it was precisely cooperation in child care that gave rise to this general bent… Hrdy’s gracefully written, expert account of human behavior focuses on the positive, and its most important contribution is to give cooperation its rightful place in child care. Through a lifetime of pathbreaking work, she has repeatedly undermined our complacent, solipsistic, masculine notions of what women were meant ‘by nature’ to be."

-Melvin Konner, The New York Review of Books

You've got nothing, at least nothing meaningful, to say. I've got no more time for you. If you comment on my stories in the future in this same uninformed, antagonistic way, I will simply hide them from the comments and refuse to interact with them.

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Elle Beau ❇︎
Elle Beau ❇︎

Written by Elle Beau ❇︎

I'm a bitch, I'm a lover, I'm a child, I'm a mother, I'm a sinner, I'm a saint. I do not feel ashamed. I'm your hell, I'm your dream, I'm nothing in between.

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