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You hit the nail on the head here. Men need to know that their children are their own, because why else should they care for them (from evolutionary perspective, that is). The woman will always care for the offspring, because the offspring will always be hers.
However, if it were a part of the "construct" that women were allowed to sleep around, then men would have to work much, much harder in order to be able to provide. (Again, from an evolutionary perspective. In the age of birth control, yadda yadda yadda...)
(I'm not sure what you mean by "ways to manage [paternity]")
Let's frame the reference point. The efforts to ensure paternity by enforcing sexual exclusivity has proven to be highly imperfect. Women still cheat - maybe less than they would have otherwise but when they do they are more likely to keep it a secret.
Now compare that to responsible non-monogamy. Keep in mind that this is possible. Just because a person isn't monogamous doesn't mean they are carelessly and non-discriminating. In an open situation in which the woman has no incentive to lie it would be quite easy to establish the premise that the husband does not want to raise another man's child and agree to a process whereby the wife goes off of birth control and exclusive with her husband for the short period of time until she is pregnant. Likewise other people involved in non-monogamy may suspend outside sexual activities altogether during child rearing years.
To people committed to enforcement and control that will sound anathema. But remember enforcement and control has not proven to be that effective. And as in many others aspects of life it is often a response to mistrust or insecurity. In this context it is put up as the reason for enforcing monogamy on the premise that the man needs to control his wife to ensure paternity. But to come to that conclusion he must actively preclude the option of communicating openly about her outside sexual activity. There is no reason to preclude that option other than because he doesn't want to embrace it for other reasons.
Why would men have to work harder to be able to provide if women are non-monogamous? My wife and I are a couple who support each other and share resources just like any monogamous couple. The other men she has sex with are carefully managed and do not intrude on our life. They are not my competition. And they don't put a burden on our relationship any more so than any other outside connection we have (family, friends, etc.).
Go back to the notion of "sleeping around". Too often these things are couched in the false binary that a man is either faithful or completely loose and careless in every way. That is contrived to push them back towards monogamy because the alternative is genuinely dangerous in many ways (emotional connections, STDs, pregnancy, etc.)
I don't know why you say they have more sexual opportunity, unless it is because they are pursuees instead of pursuers. I'm also not sure I even agree, because they are the ones that carry the burden of gestation. If anything, don't they have less sexual opportunity? (Again, evolutionary perspective.)
They have more opportunity because men are more willing to engage in sex on the woman's terms. We are past the stage where gestation is the primary factor at play. If it was I would agree with you. But in the modern world women have embraced sex for pleasure and have the means to indulge that pleasure with limited fear of pregnancy. Like the silly bird analogy - the cage is now 20 feet off the ground, outside away from the cats and they bird has almost immediately taken advantage of these new circumstances to fly. Only looking at how it behaved in the room full of cats is not sufficiently rigorous.
Also, I'm a little fuzzy on whether or not you believe in equality of outcome or equality of opportunity. Both can be argued against, but I don't see how a person could believe in both of them.
I believe in equality of opportunity. There is no reason one person should be held back or another should be given a leg up just to get equal outcomes. This is a very politically sensitive topic these days. Beyond our current topic the argument for aiming at equality of outcomes is, in my opinion, limited to situations where we cannot really excise all the existing bias and ingrained advantages/disadvantages so we use equality of outcomes as a flawed proxy for equal opportunity. This may be a necessity, but it should be done away with as soon as we can develop a real level of confidence that equal opportunity exists.
Not to excavate more sensitive material but here I go. It is pretty clear that minorities and women don't get equal opportunity in many walks of life. Just changing the rules/laws doesn't ensure equal opportunity as long as all the decisions are still made by the people who benefit from inequality and either intentionally or sub-consciously make decisions that preserve the status quo. So there is a logic to tilting the scales a bit to get them back to even. But once they are even (I have no idea how we will know that but we need to at least embrace the possibility) we need to revert to a philosophy of equal opportunity knowing that it will not lead to equal outcomes because people have different capabilities and affinities.
Are you saying that most (or many) male cucks also cuck their spouses, or otherwise have other partners on the side?
I'm not saying that at all, but maybe I don't understand the question. I am not sure where you would have gotten that.
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Overall, it seems like you are saying that we should rebel against our instincts and DNA, and that the "construct" of which you speak is simply the "awareness" of the instinctual, genetically predispositioned behavior that led us to where we are today. Is that accurate?
No. What I am saying is that a lot of what you call "nature" is in fact "nurture". The things that you say are in our instincts and DNA are not necessarily so. Many of those behaviours are the result of environment and the pressures put upon us. Much of evolution is the result of adaptation to our environment. If this was a few decades ago you might have been able to argue that notwithstanding the fact that female behaviour has evolved in response to a controlling patriarchy those behaviours have nonetheless become ingrained and are now part of their nature. But female behaviour over the last few decades suggests quite the opposite and the rapidity with which women have moved beyond those things that are supposedly in their nature suggests that is not true.
Recent data suggests that women are more inclined to be receptive to an open marriage than men and are at least as likely as men to cite seeking a better or more varied sexual experience as the reason for stepping outside their marriage. It also suggests that women in the early decades of adulthood are more or less as likely as men to step outside of their marriage.
I haven't studied evolution so much as statistics. However, I do know that statistics is a key part of most scientific study. And one of the key factors in creating good statistics is you need a valid control group to isolate key factors. In order to say that certain behaviours are the result of someone's intrinsic nature rather than their environment you need a control group with a different environment. When we observe female activity historically we don't have a good control group where women weren't subject to a controlling patriarchy so we can't isolate nature from nurture. All we have is a relatively small sample (historically speaking) of maybe a couple generations that have started to become free of that patriarchy and what we are seeing is that they do not conform to previously assumed parameters.
