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From: mat@mtx5a.UUCP (m.terribile)
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Subject: Re: Re: Why male dominance?
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Date: Sun, 9-Mar-86 00:41:51 EST
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	If a culture is to survive when pressured by adjacent cultures, it must
respond, and respond with aggression.  This aggression may take the form of
open warfare of or more subtle hostility, but it nonetheless represents means
of coercion.

	If a significant amount of a societies effort was expended in this
fashion, and if women were tied up bearing and caring for children, trying
to overwhelm the rather bad infant mortality odds, it seems likely that most
of the people who would be out patrolling, fighting, bargaining, etc., would
be men, who would grow more skilled in it; they would even be especially
trained for it.  In fact, we see this happen in many less developed cultures.

	If men grew more skillful at coercion than women, they might come to
predominate in the leadership of the society.

	Anyone have a simpler explanation?
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