Why have women been oppressed throughout history? As in - why did the female gender get that role and not the male?
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Hard to know what would constitute a "sexist" attitude in animal, given that we don't understand if they can have biases…
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Animals don't have systems. Their system consists of "I do what i can get away with."
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biological/temperamental differences on *average* along with our evolving intelligence led to false assumptions and convictions.
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roles (gender or otherwise) exist in animal communities for efficiency/survival reasons (ants are a great example)
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cause mammals. Males are usually disposable in nature. Lion males run a pride & die, wolves are usually based alpha on ability.
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sexism is a distinctly human concept. It's an abstract idea, and animals have no understanding of such things, historically.
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in the case of wolves only the alphas in any pack breed and usually kill or eat the young of anything less, regardless of sex.
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Men started to dominate due to city-building and war. The great apes all show male dominance, but not all monkeys do.
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I may have mentioned this before but Robert Sapolsky has a great book on male aggression: https://www.amazon.ca/Trouble-Testosterone-Essays-Biology-Predicament/dp/0684838915 …
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Q1: I think it's because historically they've been more directly involved with childcare; it's an easy thing to manipulate.
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as for Q2: any answer to this will be lacking insomuch that it requires us to superpose our cultural values onto other species.
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