"Male Dominated" Society?

[habilis]

I heard this term a few times over the weekend and it promted this thread. I often hear that we live in a male dominated society, or a chauvinistic society. But I think it's not that. More like an aggression dominated society. If females were the more aggressive species, then we would live in a female dominated society.

Aggression dominates by nature, that's what it does. Our world is governed by the use of both mental and physical aggression, not compassion. Dinosaurs, for example, dominated and ruled the planet for millions of years because they were aggressive and robust in every way, not compassionate, and if they were compassionate, they died. Eat, or be eaten. Fight, or flee. Dominate, or be dominated. It's evolution, and it's still happening, and it's perfect, it's the universe's idea, and it's the only formula for life to become intelligent. Our ancient ancestors, Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal got us here thanks to aggressive genetics. How can evolution happen without aggression? It can't.

Unless you think you're going to remove aggressive genetics from society altogether, war will always exist. The fact is, you couldn't do that even if you tried because there would always be a mutation somewhere along the line, and it would spread and replicate.

I don't really even know where I'm going with this, but the natural evolutionary process of weeding out stupid and non-aggressive genetics has significantly slowed with modern man.

Did I just make an argument for the Might makes Right crowd?

Can intelliegently placed aggression(Empire) take us all to a better place?

Well, I'm sure that I've fully offended some of you... thanks for the honor.

[voice-]

It's becoming a female dominated society rapidly right now, I guess feminists have a lot of aggression...I'm compassionate enough to agree to an equal society, I want that, but somewhere along the lines some of these feminists forgot about equality...

[wiz]

i agree !!!

[chemistry_geek]

I just wanted to ask one question:

When you mention "evolution" do you mean instead "natural selection"?

The reason I ask is because not only do our genetics dictate our actions but also the environment. Given the right environment, some individuals will tend to excel with their genetic abilities. I wonder now, if the environment is just one huge genetic chess match, where the environmnt in human terms (society), is created by our genetics, giving the false pretense of an independent environment selecting for certain genetic traits. Hmmm......

[satanicpoptart]

not to sound like an ass but all the women i know are far to unstable to control their own lives, much less that of a social organism.

[Arden]

People need to treat others like people, not like men or women or blacks or whites or Hispanics or Asians or anything like that. Unfortunately, discrimination plays a large role in our society, and many people are too nearsighted to see the effect it has on them.

Since we have only hade white male presidents in this country, and for many more reasons, I think the US of A is a white male-dominated society. Women are gaining ground, but they don't have it yet.

[habilis]

Originally posted by chemistry_geek
I just wanted to ask one question:

When you mention "evolution" do you mean instead "natural selection"?

What I mean is, nobody knows the full story yet, but all our ancestors, such as homo habilis, homo ergaster, and homo rudolfensis were in competition for the same resources, they existed at the same time, and all were far more intelligent then any primate that exists now besides us. There was a niche to be filled, and only one of the species would be smart and strong enough to fill it and destroy the other race in the process.

Ever wonder why, if these species were so relatively intelligent, such as Neanderthal, Cro-Magnon, and Homo Erectus don't still exist? Some people actually theorize that rudolfensis and habilis were hunted to extinction by ergaster. At any rate, I highly doubt it was lazyness or stupidity or compassion that allowed ergaster to over-run his competition and eventually run the 2 races into extinction. It had to be aggression, it's the only common factor still observable in primates.

This is natural selection as far as I know it.

[Arden]

Evolution is the sequence of genetic changes made to a species in order to adapt to environmental changes. Natural selection is the elimination of those species that are not strong enough to survive on their own.