It was the "Muffet Incident".
To this day, you almost never see a girl sitting on a tuffet.
Posted on 08/31/2009 2:00:19 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
August 29, 2009 — Today’s Evolutionary Just-So Story is brought to you by New Scientist: “Girls Are Primed to Fear Spiders.” Once upon a time, while cavemen were out hunting and gathering, the women back home had to learn to avoid dangerous animals. David Rakison of Carnegie Mellon University put this all into evolutionary terms for the rest of us:...
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The other ones aren't so nice though. Especially the one that bite me on the arm while I was driving down the road.
one of life’s mysteries -— how women can have hot wax poured on them and hair ripped out of their skin yet be afraid of a spider.
In our household, it’s the men who fear spiders. They have no problem with snakes, roaches, or any other kind of creepy crawly, but both of them turn into “little girls” when they see a spider (so I’m the spider exterminator.)
How come they aren’t afraid of big, sharp diamonds?
Know why men snore?
Because back in cave man days it was the man’s job to protect women from wild animals. Well, you can’t do that when you are asleep. So men evolved snoring. The loud noise is designed to scare away wild animals and keep their cave-women safe. Men who didn’t snore were eaten in their sleep by wild animals (along with their women), that’s why men snore today.
It’s true, a college professor was quoted in a magazine.
So the next time your wife complains about your snoring, just tell her you are protecting her from wild animal attack. She will thank and appreciate you for it from then on.
Yeah sure... they all want you to believe that when you hop up on the wheel and go off to work for a hard day of mammoth-slaying, they’re back in the cave slaving away cleaning out spiders from the dark corners...
...but as soon as you clear the driveway, they go back to bed... wake up about noon, pop the cork on a bottle of wine, pour a glass, grab some cheeze and crackers, and flop down on a rock to watch Oprah...
:-)
Yep. Fairy tales are what the Evos think they are good at.
Oh my word that was funny
A past love of my life was terrified of roaches. Her IQ was sufficient to allow her to become a successful MD and psychiatrist, but she would go to pieces when one flew or crawled by.
Given that I lived on the shore of Lake Thonotosassa, FL, surrounded by old citrus groves, there was a bountiful supply of FloriDUH’s state bird. ;-)
Eventually, I discovered the reason for her fear of roaches - they make a most impressive tangle of long hair. Her hair was blond, long, and very thin. One roach could cause quite a tangle, she said. One could even say quite a hairball.
PS She also didn’t like spiders, for the same reason.
One afternoon at my Grandma's I stood curious at her sheer curtains at what appeared to be a spider nearly 6 inches in diameter. Always the curious type, I would gather match books of king spiders while riding my Welch pony through the orange groves each afternoon. I was pondering how I might catch this big daddy along with a few more just to see how tangled they might get in a jar. All this going on in my young imaginative head when along came my alcoholic Uncle named Red who scared the bejesus out me when my face was one inch from the spider!
To this day my blood pressure rises to the point of a literal panic attack.
I can't even visit a website that has pictures of these creatures.
Do I need therapy, yes. Arachnophobia is real.
No the big mystery is why boys can jump from trees, ride bikes into the air and come crashing down, eat worms, fart on each other and yet when mom washes their hair cry because soap is in their eyes.
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It was the "Muffet Incident".
To this day, you almost never see a girl sitting on a tuffet.
“Arachnophobia is real.”
I’ve seen it. Drive an otherwise stable person to tears.
I am a girl, an old one, and I will admit to having a hatred and a distrust for spiders but not exactly a fear. Spiders are small, silent and they can jump. I hate snakes even more than spiders. People who keep snakes for pets are sick and should be locked up for their own good. I have never heard of anyone who kept spiders as pets. There probably are some and now they will come out of the closet and attack me for my statements. Come on I don’t care. I am in a fighting mood. :[
Wasn’t it Fred Hoyle who called evolution “a fairy tale for adults?”
I think it’s the ugliness of certain creepy crawlies that makes us fear them. Most people aren’t afraid of butterflies or ladybugs because they’re pretty or “cute.” But spiders and roaches are ugly and make you shudder.
My wife doesn’t mind spiders and we usually leave them alone, or take them outside. One summer we had some big orb weavers that would put up huge webs on the porch or deck near the door. You’d have to duck or go around them, but we left them to their business.
Now snakes or skink lizards, she hates.
Thanks, but no thanks. That’s a challenge I’ll pass on. Any woman who is going to lay down the gauntlet outright is a woman you steer clear of. (I’ve been “taught” by my wife.)
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My grandmother, Babcia,was very superstitious. She said it was bad luck to kill spiders. To this day,at work or at home, if there is a spider someone will come get me to catch it and throw it outside. I do draw the line at Black Widows. At my son’s house in Texas I squash those .
"Araignée du matin--chagrin;
Araignée du midi--plaisir;
Araignée du soir--espoir"
(Spider of the morning - grief; spider of midday, joy; spider of the evening, hope.)
The Cat That Walked By Himself
GGG, I am starting to see a pattern in the articles that you post.
Please show me where in this article there is any evidence to support a 6-day creation and a young earth?
Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat.
Your wife is a wise woman and she has taught you well.
Evolution is a fairy tale, but the creation described in the Bible isn’t? Interesting.
I rest my case.
Everyone needs to have a justifiable fear of funnel web, brown recluse and black widow spiders.
You lost me there. I think the snoring doesn’t scare the animals away, but it wakes up the woman, who then hits the man, who wakes up, thus not sleeping when the animal attacks.
Or bring in the spider-guy to clear out the spiders, and check the bed for bed-bugs.
Yep.
The more one reads of the evo fairy tales, the more one realizes there is no proof in their work.
Dr. fishtank, Ph.D.
My noble parent explained it to me this way:
Two legs best — like us.
Four legs acceptable, even cute, since our babies do that.
Six legs not good.
Eight legs bad.
More? Worse.
Real men are afraid of snakes...just ask Indiana Jones :o)
“I am woman, hear me roar.”
“I am man, here me snore.” :o)
They can FLY? I did not know that! I don't blame her, then.
Once (yes, only once) I dated a guy who was studying the intelligence of roaches. He had some good stories, at least in the first hour, to tell about how clever they can be. They are, he said, naturally curious, and not bad at solving problems, as long as they are roach problems.
As for spiders, I generally leave them alone, provided they're sedentary and not nomadic. (And they best be small.)
The Cat That Walked By Himself
I LOVE that story!!! Never tire of it. Great babysitting reading too.
Thank God. I’m normal after all. Well kinda ;).
When the kids were little, I could recite most of the stories from memory -- 'the great, grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all hung about with fever-trees' --
The poem at the end of "The Alphabet" is so sad, though - Kipling's memorial to his dead daughter, Josephine.
Of all the Tribe of Tegumai
Who cut that figure, none remain,--
On Merrow Down the cuckoos cry
The silence and the sun remain.But as the faithful years return
And hearts unwounded sing again,
Comes Taffy dancing through the fern
To lead the Surrey spring again.Her brows are bound with bracken-fronds,
And golden elf-locks fly above;
Her eyes are bright as diamonds
And bluer than the skies above.In mocassins and deer-skin cloak,
Unfearing, free and fair she flits,
And lights her little damp-wood smoke
To show her Daddy where she flits.For far--oh, very far behind,
So far she cannot call to him,
Comes Tegumai alone to find
The daughter that was all to him.
What a load of crap. I’ve never been afraid of spiders. In fact, I rescue them from our cat.
The only ones I like with lots of legs are those 10 leggers, crabs, lobsters, and crayfish. I especially like them with butter.
So if the evolutionary speculation is a just-so story, what is the creation science explanation? The scientific findings are that women show more fear of spiders than men, and the difference starts to manifest as early as 11 months. Does that mean Eve was created with more fear of spiders than Adam was? Or did neither of them fear spiders, and women have devolved in this area more than men? Or did both of them fear spiders, and men have devolved to lose that sense? Or what, exactly?
And if you have time, perhaps you could outline the experiments that would confirm your explanation. Thanks.
Why yes, my cat is indeed female.
Why did God create women to fear spiders?
Yep. It has gotten better over the years. I can actually get close enough to kill one every now and then if the broom handle is long enough or the Raid can has enough pressure. ;D!
Nuts I tell you. I could pick up a live snake or a cockroach but scream like a little girl at the site of a spider.
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