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This video was not an easy one to do.  The topic is just too huge. I ended up doing a few takes in which I rambled and rambled into all sort of territory for ages.  I then decided to cut the topic down even further and start again, which is this take, and even this one goes on for TEN MINUTES (I'm terribly sorry) and, despite this length, I still never get around to saying the main thing that I had to say.  That will come in another video, and there will perhaps be a third.  Megan, if you win any more competitions of this sort, please pick smaller topics.  I also ended up speaking in such sweeping statements that I fear that it will arouse the ire of those less forgiving of  man trying to get to grips with a big topic and not go into too much time-consuming detail.  When a man talks about the topic of women, he may attract…

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This is the third video I have got out of the ludicrously long ramble I did in response to the request from Megan Humble, the winner of a competition I ran, to talk about the role of women in the past.

See the other two videos here
http://youtu.be/xrgovSZ32Yg
http://youtu.be/mPmbDPsyt6I

In this one, I talk more about the 'why' women's roles were different, and as I ramble, I touch on hormones, the expendability of men, arranged marriages, observations of kibbutz life, and the power that mistresses can have.

You might also like to see my comedy series about evolutionary psychology: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA614EBE109223D0B

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