I’m not sure how “fracturing race along gender lines” comes into play or what the hell that even means.

Human dating and courtship works pretty much the same regardless of race in the same culture.

Further, both genders send and receive signals of sexual interest or rebuff which are then responded to, so there’s not really any fracturing along gender lines either. It’s a discourse that happens back and forth, which both genders participate in. It’s not predominantly a verbal discourse, rather a physical and kinetic one.

I’ve got no idea what you meant here.

What ancestral adversary? Neanderthals? Predators? Our past lives as hunter/gatherers?

None of that has anything to do with dating and courtship today, nor did I suggest it did.

You seem to be caught up in an idea of paleoanthropology. My original comment was too short and brief to have made that assumption. While it’s true I was thinking in biological terms — I did graduate college with a degree in a biology field (Wildlife Science), there was nothing in that comment to justify going down the cave man path of discussion.

Paleoanthropology gets a lot of media coverage right now because there’s been a lot of recent discoveries of prehistoric sites. Let’s not forget though, that there are a lot of anthropologists who study modern cultures and track changing dynamics within them. Further, biology and anthropology are often linked in media discourse but don’t have to be. So let’s not make the assumption that because someone brings up life history dynamics of the human species that they are speaking about anything more than in the present sense unless they say so or that they are talking about or making comparisons about anything other than humans.

Cause I wasn’t.

There’s a place for that, and interesting discussions to have. This wasn’t it. This was a simple comment about taking responsibility for ones own life strategies in the modern world in the culture you live in as a human male. Nothing more. Nothing less.