I always wondered how things would work if our biology was different. If men were the ones to carry the child, would they be the ones subjected to such discrimination?
Are women the ones who care for children because that’s a woman thing, or is it because whoever gets pregnant would naturally become the caretaker? Do women have less muscle mass than men because theyre the ones who get pregnant or is it something else? If men were the ones who got pregnant, would they still have all that muscle, or is that antithetical to a successful pregnancy?
Stepping away from biology and thinking about society: Taking time away from school and work for a pregnancy is a huge setback. Does it matter if it’s the man or woman doing it? Would men be overlooked for important high paying jobs because their employer thought they might decide to start a family?
What if we laid eggs? How would that have changed our society and values? Why did I once again overthink a meme?
That’s an interesting thought excercise.
I’m not sure patriarchy has much to do with biology, I think it was just luck of the draw.
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.
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.
