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[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm not sure patriarchy has much to do with biology

I'm pretty sure it originally boiled down to "I'm bigger than you. Do what I say or I'll hurt you", for millennia.

[–] Barbarian 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I read a pretty compelling hypothesis that in ancient times the makeup of your military determines the culture, because they have the training and weapons to coup if they want something.

Female majority militaries died out because women of military age are simply less disposable than men of military age. You can't effectively repopulate with an 80% male population, for example.

This means natural selection applied to tribes means you're going to be left with almost exclusively male dominated militaries, which will very likely at some point decide they want more power.

In terms of the "man strong" thing, the average male is stronger than the average female, but is not really a huge factor when you're selecting for the strongest across a large enough population.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

That's a pretty interesting theory. Thank you for sharing it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

The average man is stronger than women in the top 5th percentile though

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yup. Men strong, Woman weak is how it started.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Which is still biology. Ugly biology, but biology

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago