"The fundamental difference between the sexes is that women give birth to their offspring, whilst men can not. Men and women do not differ in degree but differ in kind.
Parental investment. In all species, the relative investment that is made by the male and the female in their offspring determines the degree of discrimination exercised by the individual in selecting a partner. In humans, like many mammals and most of animals, females can be expected to be the more discriminating in their choice of mates. Therefore females limit the reproductive success of males and men compete with other men for access to women. Male-male competition leads to dimorphism in body size, with men larger than women. Men exist in a dominance hierarchy, whilst women do not. A man first has to deceive a woman about the reality of the future, and to do this effectively he has to deceive himself, this leads to greater overconfidence in men as compared to women (see Barber and Odean (2001)). Women are the privileged sex, whilst men are relatively expendable. This manifests itself in various ways:
General
Throughout the entire history of the human race, maybe 80% of women but only 40% of men reproduced (Baumeister 2007).
Males invest less and seek quantity of mates, while females invest more and seek quality of mates.
Women are at best deeply suspicious of most men, but there is no corresponding feeling in men for women: no normal man hates women, and psychopaths simply have no feelings for anyone, male or female. Women’s prejudice against ordinary men manifests itself with terminology such as ‘loser’ or ‘jerk’ aimed at men who are often guilty of nothing more than being not of sufficiently high status.
Women specialize in the narrow sphere of intimate relationships, whilst men specialize in the larger group (Baumeister 2007).
Female circumcision is considered a serious crime, whilst male circumcision is considered a joke.
In developed countries a father is forced to pay for a child’s upkeep without any corresponding rights of parenthood or even of access.
Rudman and Goodwin (2004) found that men prefer men to women at a ratio of 1.58:1, whilst women prfer women to men at a ratio of 8.43:1. On aggregate, this means that people prefer women to men at a ratio of 1.79:1.
Women would divide money equally, with an equal share for everybody; men, in contrast, would divide it unequally, giving the biggest share of reward to whoever had done the most work (Baumeister 2007).
On the Titanic, the richest men had a lower survival rate (34%) than the poorest women (46%) (although that’s not how it looked in the film) (Baumeister 2007)."
Parental investment. In all species, the relative investment that is made by the male and the female in their offspring determines the degree of discrimination exercised by the individual in selecting a partner. In humans, like many mammals and most of animals, females can be expected to be the more discriminating in their choice of mates. Therefore females limit the reproductive success of males and men compete with other men for access to women. Male-male competition leads to dimorphism in body size, with men larger than women. Men exist in a dominance hierarchy, whilst women do not. A man first has to deceive a woman about the reality of the future, and to do this effectively he has to deceive himself, this leads to greater overconfidence in men as compared to women (see Barber and Odean (2001)). Women are the privileged sex, whilst men are relatively expendable. This manifests itself in various ways:
General
Throughout the entire history of the human race, maybe 80% of women but only 40% of men reproduced (Baumeister 2007).
Males invest less and seek quantity of mates, while females invest more and seek quality of mates.
Women are at best deeply suspicious of most men, but there is no corresponding feeling in men for women: no normal man hates women, and psychopaths simply have no feelings for anyone, male or female. Women’s prejudice against ordinary men manifests itself with terminology such as ‘loser’ or ‘jerk’ aimed at men who are often guilty of nothing more than being not of sufficiently high status.
Women specialize in the narrow sphere of intimate relationships, whilst men specialize in the larger group (Baumeister 2007).
Female circumcision is considered a serious crime, whilst male circumcision is considered a joke.
In developed countries a father is forced to pay for a child’s upkeep without any corresponding rights of parenthood or even of access.
Rudman and Goodwin (2004) found that men prefer men to women at a ratio of 1.58:1, whilst women prfer women to men at a ratio of 8.43:1. On aggregate, this means that people prefer women to men at a ratio of 1.79:1.
Women would divide money equally, with an equal share for everybody; men, in contrast, would divide it unequally, giving the biggest share of reward to whoever had done the most work (Baumeister 2007).
On the Titanic, the richest men had a lower survival rate (34%) than the poorest women (46%) (although that’s not how it looked in the film) (Baumeister 2007)."
