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Because we are cheap and disposable and way more generic than even those who are aware of it can conceive.

... like women are all special and interesting by virtue of being female? Most of humanity is bland and forgettable. Gender is hardly a factor there.

The comment hints at the fact that a group can easily loose a large number of their males, because it doesn't have to hinder procreation. Losing women is much harder to recover. Being special or interesting doesn't come into the equation.

Ah yes, nothing more beautiful than a man impregnating a woman and then divorcing her to do the same thing again with another woman and another woman...

Wait no, that guy is an asshole.

It's not that simple. A group losing a large number of their males will lead to more incestuous relationships down the line.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women-are-wonderful_effect

> "...the effect decreased the higher a countries measure of gender equality. This effect seemed to be due to men being viewed less negatively the more egalitarian a country was rather than women being viewed more positively."

So, yes! At least some people think so.

Careful. It's only one small inference to women being valuable, and a socio-biological explanation of why so many groups tended to protect women and the consequence for the power balance.

Just for the trigger happy: I'm not saying we should lock our women behind the kitchen counter in a modern society, but that roles are much, much older than that, and may have an evolutionary reason.

I speak only ever about men. I am one, I can comment. I look around at us and I call it like I see it.

edit: Not that I don't have thoughts about other genders, and gender in general. In genderal. I even sometimes find it politic to share them. But I will never hesitate to point out men being men. Particularly my fellow whities.

nah

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