> There's a reason virtually every culture is patriarchal.
It's because men are physically stronger than women. That's it. That's all it is.
It's because men are physically stronger than women. That's it. That's all it is.
But I second that is a weird take or point to throw in.
I think the mistake in the post above is saying that physical strength has not been an issue for a millennia.
The strong have been using the threat of physical violence to take power right up to and including today. In the home, at work, and in society at large.
Women, by contrast, are wired for safety, which is a far more holistic approach to purpose because they consider connections men wouldn't even _consider_.
The downside of being smarter, though, is more unease about things you see that may present as a risk. It keeps females away from the bottom of the performance bell curve (men rank lowest in most metrics), but also from the top (men rank highest as well).
All of it is reprogrammable by operant conditioning (a large part of it often happening within marriage), but those are the biological primitives.
But that doesn’t really mean they weren’t involved in decision making, it just means they aren’t involved in the sorts of places where people will write any of it down for posterity.
From a long time ago, we were the aggressive hunters, warmongers, protectors of everything that “belonged” to us, including women and children.
To this day, we’ll often be the protectors (and usually aggressors) in a violent situation, for the reasons above.