Summary of Modern obsession with butts | Evolutionary psychology | Philosophical anthropology

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The video discusses the evolutionary psychology behind the modern obsession with butts, specifically discussing how curvier buttocks are linked to a more bowl-like skeletal structure, and how lower waist-to-hip ratios are an indicator of a female's ability to cope with stress. It also briefly discusses how attractive daughters may be due to evolutionary selection in the form of artificial augmentation of certain body parts.

• 00:00:00 In today's western society, females are sexual objectified and males are sexually attracted to female lower body parts with a low waist-to-hip ratio and a vertebral wedging. The hypothesis is based on evolutionary psychology and the physical advantages that these features offer.
• 00:05:00 The video reviews the hypothesis that men have a higher waist-to-hip ratio than women, and that this correlates with better health for offspring. It also discusses how this may be a consequence of human evolution as we became bipedal.
• 00:10:00 The following video discusses the evolutionary psychology behind the modern obsession with butts, specifically discussing how curvier buttocks are linked to a more bowl-like skeletal structure, and how lower waist-to-hip ratios are an indicator of a female's ability to cope with stress. It also briefly discusses how attractive daughters may be due to evolutionary selection in the form of artificial augmentation of certain body parts.
• 00:15:00 In Camille Palia's book, "The Sexual Persona," she discusses the evolution of female perception from hunter-gatherer societies to modern Western civilization. She analyzes famous Venus figurines from the Upper Paleolithic period and finds that the most popular figure, the Venus of Willendorf, is a symbol of fertility. Palia argues that this figurine doesn't represent a subject of sexual preference, but rather a female as she has all the body parts that are specifically enlarged to function as a cue of sex determination. Meanwhile, in the Renaissance, we see a shift in female portrayal from royalty to an individual with a live facial expression. Renaissance portraits look like they are gifs waiting to be clicked on, and represent a radical contrast to the static images of Nefertiti from ancient Egypt. This shift from an unconscious period of great mother archetype to a civilization where ego emerges out of the unconscious is one of the key differences between Abrahamic religions and paganism. In the case of objectification of women and reducing their value to sexuality, it could be understood as a side effect of the pagan revival, which is supported by new Jungian understanding of idolatry and female objectification.
• 00:20:00 Robert Moore discusses the modern obsession with butts, which he believes is a result of the domination of the left hemisphere. He argues that this obsession manifests itself in the modern world in the form of excessive digitalization, division and hyperspecialization of disciplines, atomization and pathological individualization of society, and destruction of grand meta narratives.
• 00:25:00 In this video, evolutionary psychologist Michael Crist discusses the left hemisphere's dominance over the human body, and the effects it has on both males and females. Crist also reviews one example of how this dominance has manifested in society – the prevalence of trophy wives.