Male Expendability and the Nature of Tribes

kloo2yoo · 2010-08-07T16:07:18+00:00

I am glad to see Elusive Wapiti’s post on the issue.

maybe we would be too. Got a link?

stemgang · 2010-08-08T10:29:31+00:00

So why are men so often treated as expendable within society? It goes back to competition, i.e. your men are expendable, but ours are not. Elites have always been perfectly happy to use other people’s sons as cannon fodder, while usually protecting their own from the battlefield. At the highest levels of society, sons are preferentially educated over daughters, and then these exact same people who favor their boys take steps to ensure that less fortunate sons are prevented from competing with them. Other people’s daughters, on the other hand, are no threat to their tribe — they are a resource to be exploited...If one thinks of it as an inchoate civil war, it becomes all the more clear.

Warfare between tribes definitely also involves class warfare within a tribe. The rich men send off the poor men's sons to die in battle.

Title	Male Expendability and the Nature of Tribes
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Date	August 7, 2010 6:16 AM UTC (15 years ago)
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