Yes, gender roles evolved to protect women and children because they are absolutely essential for the survival of the species but physically vulnerable to predatory males (and other threats).
Tearing down gender roles only reduces the number of good men and leaves more women and children vulnerable to predatory males.
This was all common knowledge for millennia (although our ancestors did not have the scientific data to back up conventional wisdom), and then suddenly in the last few generations we “forgot” it all. In reality, I think even those who deny the powerful role of biology on gender roles and gender inequality know it is true. They just prefer to pretend that that biological difference is not true because it conflicts with their moral goal of Equality.
Far too many today prefer the Pleasant Lie over the Harsh Truth.
As you write: "Males produce small, motile sperm. Females produce large, immobile eggs. This basic division is universal among mammals. Chromosomes direct the process: most males have XY chromosomes, and most females have XX."
Interestingly, the XX/XY distinction is reversed for birds and lepidoptera.
Gender does not exist. Only sex is real — and not only as empirical fact, but as ontology. Nearly all complex life divides into the polarity of male and female. To exist as life is to be sexed.
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Yes, gender roles evolved to protect women and children because they are absolutely essential for the survival of the species but physically vulnerable to predatory males (and other threats).
Tearing down gender roles only reduces the number of good men and leaves more women and children vulnerable to predatory males.
This was all common knowledge for millennia (although our ancestors did not have the scientific data to back up conventional wisdom), and then suddenly in the last few generations we “forgot” it all. In reality, I think even those who deny the powerful role of biology on gender roles and gender inequality know it is true. They just prefer to pretend that that biological difference is not true because it conflicts with their moral goal of Equality.
Far too many today prefer the Pleasant Lie over the Harsh Truth.
Biology isn’t Bigotry.
Therefore, Science can’t be Sexist.
“If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.”
-Camille Paglia
Amen to all this!
As you write: "Males produce small, motile sperm. Females produce large, immobile eggs. This basic division is universal among mammals. Chromosomes direct the process: most males have XY chromosomes, and most females have XX."
Interestingly, the XX/XY distinction is reversed for birds and lepidoptera.
For more on that: https://richarddawkins.substack.com/p/is-the-male-female-divide-a-social
So there's The Truth about Sex. Next up, The Truth about Race. After that, Armageddon.
"The feminist conception of 'patriarchy' is woefully lacking. Examining patriarchy via evolutionary theory, where women take an active part in its creation, reveals a much more fascinating picture." https://www.paulawrightdysmemics.com/p/in-defence-of-reformed-patriarchy?utm_source=publication-search
Gender does not exist. Only sex is real — and not only as empirical fact, but as ontology. Nearly all complex life divides into the polarity of male and female. To exist as life is to be sexed.