While everything in the this book indicates that women are indeed the privileged sex, everything in the present chapter indicates that women are the complaining sex. To paraphrase Nietzsche in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, everything about women, and feminists in particular, is a complaint, and the complaint has one cause: namely, the plain fact that a woman stands a much better chance of getting her way by complaining than a man.

Thus understood, women’s greater tendency to complain about real and imagined troubles follows directly from their relative physical weakness and lesser degree of competitiveness. He whom God, nature or hormones has made competitive and strong will, more often than not, take what he can. She whom hormones, nature or God has made less competitive and less strong is, more often than not, better off begging, wheedling, maneuvering or complaining. And if all else fails, she can always weep. For most women in most situations, experience shows this tactic usually works. All other things being equal, the more readily she can squeeze water out of her eyes, the better her prospects.

From The Privileged Sex by Martin van Creveld