In other words, the Protagonist encourages the Opponent to act detrimentally for the Protagonist's benefit. Even though the Malign Encouragement policy appears never to have been formally defined, examples abound. Examples are a nation financing the pacifist movement of a country with which it is at war, or a race promoting miscegenation to others while exhorting its own members to only marry between themselves. A form of Malign Encouragement, for example, is a female encouraging two males to fight for her. It is proposed that all transactions can be analyzed in terms of signals, markers, tokens and handles.
Males prefer markers and handles while females reinforce signals and tokens.
The influence of an individual male on a female, particularly that resulting from physical sex. A female is said to be masculinated . The societal influence of males on females. One or more females are said to be masculinized . See also irredundancy.