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caveman

/ ˈkeɪvˌmæn /

noun

  1. a man of the Palaeolithic age; cave dweller

  2. informal,  a man who is primitive or brutal in behaviour, etc

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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But it’s also part of Netflix’s “rise and fall” true crime genre, cautioning against believing in figures like Johnson, who hooks young men by flogging a version of caveman masculinity that associates virility with dominance.

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Despite a short stint as a gifted student on school sitcom "Head of the Class" and an appearance in caveman comedy "Encino Man," the young Quan largely disappeared from our screens, if not our memories.

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The point of course is that here in the age of post-enlightenment, where we hunt with automatic weapons and nuclear weapons, and reason as if we’re still cavemen, both sides have failed us miserably.

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But more conservative men were apparently shocked like they were cavemen seeing electricity for the first time, because they sent that clip around like it was the most important moment in history captured on film.

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