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In reply to the discussion: Are the Feminist / MRA Argument Threads a means to "Divide and Conquer" DU - POLL [View all]Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)That the emphasis on competition is the cause of patriarchy? If the male of our species didn't, on average, have a physical advantage (and there are many traits more important than physical strength), patriarchy would have never initially evolved culturally. If males of our pre-human ancestors were on equal physical footing as the females, they would have had to negotiate and cooperate instead of compete to get their way rather than leaning on their physical strength.
You can't develop a patriarchy if you have to acknowledge the other gender's wants and needs because you can't compete with them physically. Certainly that is why female culture is traditionally more cooperative internally and why the early, primitive patriarchies of our ancestors fell to coalitions of females and beta males against single alpha males. The alpha males couldn't compete with large coalitions allied against them and were forced to cooperate.