Re the Jessie Davis Murder and the ex-cop Cutts.
Dr. Helen I think you got nearly everything wrong here.
Look at who Cutts was in context of his social status and appeal to the women who were all blue-collar, working women with not much education etc.
Women will share high-status men with others, over not sharing men of equal status to themselves.
You can see this over, and over, and over again in every socio-economic status group. Look at Mayor Tony in LA. He had: Mirthala Salinas, the Telemundo exec, his wife, the Korean Fashion Designer, the LAPD officer, various lobbyists, totalling about 6 different women off and on, all of whom knew about each other. Or Bill Clinton and Gennifer Flowers and Elizabeth Gracen at the same time (Gracen was Miss Arkansas and TV’s Highlander “Amanda” in the 1990′s).
The old trade-off for women to choose stability, loyalty, amiability etc. so that a man would support her through pregnancy is gone, and it’s gone world-wide. Welfare state payments AND world-wide rising incomes for women (a good thing) allow women much more freedom to pursue what they want. Which is …
Men of higher status than their own.
Not much else matters.
Of course the corollary to this is that a few high-status men get most of the women, and the lower-status men at each socio-economic class lose out and have none.
To me this accounts for the huge rise in misogyny. Men with wives and daughters, or even girlfriends they are thinking of marrying, cannot afford misogynism (and Natural Selection would tend to eliminate it). Men who want wives or girlfriends but through lack of high status (only a few men by definition can have it at any level) can’t achieve that will substitute porn for a while but in the end exhibit misogynistic impulses, particularly in political and cultural fields where individual responsibility is diffused through the group.
Yes Cutts impregnated four women, all of whom knew about each other (Davis had one kid by him, conceived another with him when he killed her). All were quite pretty and attracted male attention. But Cutts character, integrity, personality was irrelevant, only his status mattered.
[Popular culture only makes this worse, look at any "chick-flick" and see the catering to status desire among women in selection of men.]
