Cavemen were fighting for their women...
I thought the only way they could get chicks back then was when they clubbed them over the head.
And then they dragged them to their caves. Want to know why they dragged them by the hair and not by the legs? They'd fill up with dirt!
Marriage by capture is certainly a well known phenomenon amoung anthropolgists. The question is whether the women were passive or active participants.
When I was young, the other preteen girls and I [ranging in age from 10-13] had a game. We called it “let’s throw rocks at the boys across the creek and get them to chase us.” Pretty soon they would run through the creek, up the embankment and chase us through the surrounding woods. I was never caught and was complaining about this to one of the other girls. She said, “well, why don’t you slow down a little?” I was shocked, “what, slow down, if they are not good enough to catch me, I don’t want them.”