RE: Men's Rights Movement
December 23, 2017 at 2:09 pm
(This post was last modified: December 23, 2017 at 2:15 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(December 23, 2017 at 1:52 pm)Mermaid Wrote:(December 23, 2017 at 1:50 pm)AtlasS33 Wrote: The minority is always bashed. Humans have this disgusting trait, sadly. I'm sure if women became the majority; men will be oppressed the same way.
I am a little confused by this. We are 50:50.
Because the societies have privileged male for so long, many inculcated roles, stereotypes, institutions, expectation and customs have had time to arise that protects and solidify this privilege. But the Origin of the male dominance of most societies seems to me to be traceable to warfare throughout the history to Neolithic age. If organized warfare is frequent and often end in destruction or subjugation of the defeated, than societies which previliges the warriors would tend to do better. Even down to the present day physical strength is at a premium in warfare. Thus previleging of the warrior class is the previleging of the male.
Btw, i believe we are not quite 50:50. Slightly more male babies are born than girls, so at birth the ratio favors boys. But with access to modern healthcare women have longer lifespan than men, so each each higher age bracket the proportion of women increases until beyond retirement age women substantially outnumber men. Overall I believe the ratio in most modern societies slightly favor women.