Is There Anything Good About Men?

First, let me just say this paragraph alone made the article worth the read... Seeing all this, the feminists thought, wow, men dominate everything, so society is set up to favor men. It must be great to be a man. The mistake in that way of thinking is to look only at the top. If one were to look downward to the bottom of society instead, one finds mostly men there too. Who’s in prison, all over the world, as…

I find the case of Larry Summers and Harvard very interesting, given a conversation I had with a Harvard researcher a few years back: I mentioned that at my university, females comprised 55% of the student population but had received 65% of the major entrance scholarships, and was immediately told "that makes sense; girls are smarter than boys". The fact that she had spent her life fighting against people who made exactly the same argument to justify women receiving fewer…

This article is full of speculation and really casts an uncritical eye towards the thinly spread facts within. "The huge difference in reproductive success very likely contributed to some personality differences, because different traits pointed the way to success. Women did best by minimizing risks, whereas the successful men were the ones who took chances. Ambition and competitive striving probably mattered more to male success (measured in offspring) than female. Creativity was probably more necessary, to help…

If there were nothing good about men, they wouldn't exist. Edit: There are vertebrate species with no males. Some have males only when conditions are suitably favorable. Given that there are men, there must be selection pressure. Edit: I wonder why this submission was flagged? Too contentious?