heironymouscoward's Journal: Heironymous' Dictionary, R-Z

Racism
The theory that someone is stupid because you cannot understand their language or culture. See projection.

Relationship, sexual
The negotiation process in which women give sex in exchange for the opportunity to try to convert a bachelor into a husband. See sex, bachelor, husband.

Religion
The application of belief to all situations, following the rule: when all one has is a hammer, all problems start to look like nails.

School
Large building in which young humans are locked-up while their parents work. Cheaper than prison, had the advantage of creating compliant workforce and frustrating alternative life strategies. See hammers, money, criminals.

Sex
A complex social and physical process of negotiation and trade between groups of genes, implemented finally by an exchange of body fluids and reproductive cells through the use of various internal and external organs. See relationship, sexual.

Siblings
Organisms that share half of our genes and too much of our parents' attention. See twins.

Social Institutions
All human societies have four basic and universal institutions: the bar, in which old men brew alchohol and pay young women to sell this to young men; the coffee shop, in which old men decide how they will split the profits; the dance square, where young women move their bodies while young men beat on instruments; and the beauty salon, where the women do their nails, hair, and skin, and keep each other up to date. All other social institutions can be derived from these four basic ones.

Status, Female
Defines a woman's position in the female hierarchy. Women's status starts with their beauty, decreases with age, and increases again with the size and power of the family under their control. Ugly and infertile women always have the lowest status in human societies. See Beauty.

Status, Male
Defines a man's position in the male hierarchy. Men gain status through success at group or individual competition, applying strategies based on specialization and/or collaboration. Men spend status on female company with the specific goal of obtaining sexual favors. See Sex.

Twins
Organisms that share all our genes and are therefore perfect. See children.

Victim, blame the
Standard technique designed to shift blame for oppression onto oppressed group. This technique works well because oppressed groups rarely have the time or lawyers to defend themselves.

Xenophobia
Taboo against mixing expressed as extreme fear. See victim, blame the.

Zoo
Archaic demonstration of our superiority over other species by our ability to capture them and force them to breed and live in artificial circumstances. Most common in cities which are themselves large collections of humans who breed and ive in artificial circumstances.