So during my purple pill days I was actually fairly red pill, BUT I still thought why SHOULDN'T men and women be largely equal?

The partner stuff made sense to me. Women shouldn't have a reason to be dumber really.

WRONG. All wrong. Women are children and nature have optimized them to be little more than walking wombs.

Energy requirements: http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/estimated-calorie-requirement

A man requires almost 30% more calories than a woman.

She has been optimized to sit at home and grow babies. She cannot hunt while pregnant etc. etc. so nature saw no reason to waste lots of muscle and brain on her.

But isn't the brain free you ask? No. The brain burns up to 25% of our calories at rest: https://www.sharecare.com/health/calories/brain-calories-at-rest

These two facts put together are why men are so much better in all categories. It was nature's way of keeping women low maintenance.

Same reason you don't put rocket engines on school buses - mileage.