Talk:Urban caveman movement

Are there any urban cavewomen?

Funspace article on rural cavepersons? (Or is that how they normally live?)

82.44.143.26 (talk) 15:47, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

Not funspace, this is a real phenomenon. Bizarre, but real. Also unsustainable if "everybody did it", since they depend heavily on the (tax- and business-funded) commons. ħuman 16:09, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

I don't know if there's a rural caveman movement. It's mostly a New York City phenomenon right now. Re: urban cavewomen - do urban cavemen use clubs on them (or on each other in competition for them?) Enquiring minds want to know! Secret Squirrel (talk) 17:01, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

The reason there isn't a rural equivalent is in my previous post. The closest I think we'd see in the hinterlands would be survivalists, but they are probably quite a different kind of person. ħuman 23:43, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

Lasts until first bout of 'manflu.' Any relation to [1] - or can they be persuaded to follow a similar philosophy? ^{— Unsigned, by: 212.85.6.26 / talk / contribs}

The tone of this article displeases me.

The entire idea behind the Urban Caveman thing is paleodiet/paleomedicine. Looking back and trying to mimic more closely the factors that they evolved to live with, while still avoiding many of the problems that modern medicine and technology allow us to avoid. Running barefoot and eating less processed food. It is largely based on guessing and weak science, but the fact that they haven't eschewed modern society in order to pursue their intended diet and leisure activities is pretty petty, I for one think it is better for all of us that they haven't given up paying taxes and going to work. I also think it's great that many of the forage, so much food rots in our urban environments because no one bothers to eat it. Pointing out that this isn't a well supported movement is one thing, but there isn't much evidence against it either, and largely it is harmless to the practitioners and to the people around them. --Opcn (talk) 21:41, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, it's a little snarky, but why be nice in the face of so much woo?

Unless the food they dumpster-dive makes them ill. Etc. ħuman 08:30, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Are they foraging in dumpsters or city parks? I personally have spent many hours earing dandelions and wild raspberries in the woods. Dumpster diving doesn't seem to caveman like to me, since they would be eating the same highly processed foods that they have rejected only with decay added, is it possible that the reporter misunderstood what forage ment? --Opcn (talk) 00:51, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

"Dumpster diving" would be Freeganism, more than this sort of thing. ^gnostic 00:52, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

True, but where else is there to "forage" in an urban environment? ħuman 02:36, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Parks. Green belts. You'd be surprised. Back to the original point, I sorta agree the part needs to go about 'unfortunately' they don't make a point of dying by their early 20s. Then again the self help article says people who read self help books out to be killed. That should probably go too. SPOV doesn't mean we have to be Something Awful or Encyclopedia Dramatica. Secret Squirrel (talk) 11:41, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

The basic question is - would you prefer to be on Robinson Crusoe's island with a group of urban cavemen or a historical re-enactment group. 212.85.6.26 (talk) 17:56, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

"allowing a superior male to sodomize them"

Do we have evidence of cave-prison rape?

Cavemen and reenactment societies

There are many re-enactment societies and similar (such as steampunk/Neovictorianism): to what extent does the UCM fit into this genre? Anna Livia (talk) 10:30, 3 September 2017 (UTC)

Human evolution

This is somewhat of a simplification:

Allowing 4 generations per century and, for modern urban populations in the West, 'several thousand years' since the hunter-gatherer-'cave and other natural shelter dweller' period there have been (in most cases) several hundred generations between the two - and the impact of agricultural development and living in villages/towns/cities, and 'a few generations' of modern urban living and large-scale industrialisation.

To what extent have we physically evolved away from 'the cavepeople' population? Anna Livia (talk) 12:52, 3 April 2018 (UTC)