Love! Actually?

After 2 entries of 'cheemology', let us look at something more light-hearted this week. Let's talk about love!

Non-verbal cues of dominance is not something new. In fact, our early ancestors, the primates, are still practising it today:

A dominant male in a group of primates. Image from www.pandrillus.org.

Notice the stance of the dominant male pictured, sitting with his legs wide apart, showing off how er... big(or colourful), he is. We know that primates communicate with sounds but in this case, I think we can safely say that they too, are practicing a form of non-verbal communication to show superiority.

The interesting thing is that even after centuries of evolution, our 'dominant' males aren't too far off from where the monkeys left them:

No, it's not his bag that is in the way. Image from london-underground.blogspot.com.

Here are some of the non-verbal actions our local boys have evolved to express the ownerships of their significant other:

'Your Elle-Vee bag berry nice, I want to carry too!'


'Haneey, I hold handbag lidat correct not?'

Disclaimer: These pictures were spotted here. I do not loiter in shopping centres taking dodgy paparazzi shots.

Back to the issue in discussion, there has been debate going on with regard to what the modern women want, besides their Gender Equality, from the Sensitive New Age Guy. One camp feels that chivalry should move ahead and evolve(recall monkey-man evolution above) with the times, while another fights for the fact that a man should remain a man and not a 'hanger of cutesy-girly accessories'.

Myself, as with most issues involving women, choose to sit on the fence. It is better to have a sore rear end than to endure a lifetime of verbal lashing, for 'hell hath no fury like a woman scorned'. With human evolution pushing on, I wonder if we will one day adopt the canines' non-verbal method of marking ownership:

Well, I have my own unique way of telling other people she's mine:

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And maybe that's why I don't have any dates.

So, what is your way of non-verbally communicating that pretty/handsome person by your side is out with you?