262) The Privacy Breach

(One of my favorite sculptures/post allusion - Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss. From Wikimedia Commons.)

We spent most of today on the road again, but finally made it back! The road trip took us on a tour de California, through snow, orange groves and vineyards, and the turquoise coast.

During our hours of conversation, the topic of significant other privacy invasion came up. My friend commented that it seemed like every relationship went through an episode (or multiple episodes) in which the female poked around her boyfriend's text messages, emails or Facebook account.

But very rarely do you hear about males committing such breaches, and when you do, our first thought is usually, total psycho slash borderline abusive. In comparison, girlfriend breaches, while unacceptable invasions of privacy and lack of trust, seem to be accepted as commonplace, a given.

Our analysis attributed these girlfriend breaches to good old evolution. If men are evolutionarily driven to spread their seed, then privacy breaches are a modern woman's way to verify that she's found a mate that will stick with her après offspring. Thus, it makes biological sense that women would be more prone to snooping, as they are driven to find a faithful significant other.

This is not to excuse any invasions of privacy on the part of either gender. But it does provide some context, and explanation that runs deeper than, she was a crazy bitch.