I’ve read the theories that language was encouraged as a way for males to prove their intelligence (fitness), as well as language diversity a way to determine who is in the in group and who is in the outgroup. In the latter, I see it today with teens, SJWs, and technical and scientific disciplines having their unique meanings for words, and it is more important to know the right language to gain membership / status than have necessarily accomplishments.
With SJWs, they actively redefine words to exclude themselves if bad and include themselves if good. That’s a case of trying to modify language in addition to social hierarchy to put themselves at the top and look good. And gaining extra power by being the translator doesn’t hurt.
Dr. Jordan Peterson of the University of Toronto did a video interview with Rebel Media on the distinct personality types of SJWs versus classic liberals. Classic liberals are higher IQ, more verbally fluent. Both “liberals” measure morality based on perceived distress. But SJWs have a stronger correlation with diagnosed mental illness, strict black/white morality more often ascribed to conservative religions, and, ironically in-group/out-group preferences liberals like to deny they have. And their common language redefinition is as much evidence of this (my belief, not his) as their active exclusion and denunciation of those who deviate from the approved check list of beliefs.
I think we’re seeing the result of 2 generations of smart liberals self-select out of the population and the rise from higher birth rates of low IQ “liberals”.
And if you can’t reason with others, use emotion, and if that doesn’t work, violence seems a good option. And SJWs are too ignorant or willfully blind to realize that if they don’t let others air their grievances, there is NO option left but violence ... thank goodness the elections in the US and UK went the way of sanity.
I pray it is cultural, because that can be changed in a couple of years (what we have) but have serious doubts.
This guy almost apologizes for his shadow, but among his weasel words, he manages to actually explain r/K in terms of human behavior without calling up ideas of Social Darwinism that you seem to be channeling.
Do Fathers Matter: What Science is Telling Us About the Parent We’ve Overlooked.
https://www.amazon.com/Do-Fathers-Matter-Science-Overlooked/dp/0374535353
This guy is from the Left, but manages to cover all of the bases and put paid to the tropes of Feminist Dogma just the same.
SF & NF types will exist as long as humanity and no.. they will not self-select out of the breeding pool because these are emergent or epigenetic aspects. Read the above book. It explains this in terms of the current science rather than the flawed version Molyneux (who is a good guy and fairly reliable) is sharing. SJW is a thought process not a biology. Its like saying people who are interested in Politics have this or that characteristic. The whole concept is lame. SJW is a product of the American School System and our current POP culture that rewards these behaviors.