The Jumper Thief

Walking around any public place, eg malls, parks we can see examples of human courting rituals. The suggestive coffee drinkers, the flirtatious shoppers. One particular courting ritual that is evidenced in most females, but especially teen girls is the jumper branding. The female steals the males jumper and wears it in public, in theory a practicality to keep warm but in reality a mark of ownership. In this act she advertises to watchers that she has claimed a man, it is a mark of power over the man she has claimed.

This male doesn't need to be hers, it can be any males jumper, as long as it is seen that the jumper is not hers and it is her will that parted him with his possession.

This gives the female certain perceived power, it marks her as a higher rank then the male she took the jumper from and also any female that does not have this power over another.

This power play is very important in young womanhood. These females have not yet proved their worthwhileness by social or cultural standards so power over others of the same low ranking social positioning moves them up slightly in society's food chain it is most often done by the alpha female of a pack of teenagers and the higher rank the male who owns the jumper the more powerful the female appears to be.

So please, when you are next in a public place watch for the female that claims a males jumper, understand the connotations of this gesture then try to ignore the self- important bitch.