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.
lol
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?”
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