A sexist might say "Women are dumb! Men are smarter and have better judgement and .. (etc)" - this is also false.
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Why *do* they work? With sexism, the actual pathway is something like that human genders, due to the biological cost asymmetry between pregnancy and ejaculation, are asymmetrically balanced and *everything* about us flows from that. Asymmetrical ≠ inferior.
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OK, but then where does the trope that men are "better" than women even come from? How did anyone even come up with this? Are forks "better" than knives? ....
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(actually take a moment to think about this)
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I think the only possible correct answer to this is that it comes from group dynamics interacting with the fundamental reproduction cost asymmetry between the genders; a group of men can kill the men from another group and take their women, but the reverse doesn't work.
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AFAIK there is literally no archeological or historical record of a group of women doing this and it's absurd to even think about it, whereas this happened ~ all the time the other way around.
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Men handing their daughters off to husbands at a wedding like a valuable possession but not vicer-versa? This is where it comes from. The consequence of the almost total historical absence of matriarchal societies has shaped male hierarchies to be functional...
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The dysfunctional ones got selected out. Female hierarchies never underwent this selection, or rather (almost) none of them survived. Everything you see in the gender wars basically flows from this.
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Sexism, despite often being incorrect or exaggerated, works (in the sense of producing functional outcomes like running water, rule of law and space rockets) because it favors (literally) battle-tested male hierarchies.
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Replying to @RokoMijic
To play devil's advocate: wouldn't women also benefit from these male hierarchy sexual selections, since half their genome comes from their fathers and their male line?
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No. Slightly longer answer - "in the exact same way that peahens also 'benefit' from genes that produce ornate tails". Example gene for brain development that has a different effect in the males and females:https://academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-article/doi/10.1093/molbev/msab243/6357047 …
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