Maggie's Farm

"My pee-pee is not a social construct"

It seems to me that there are some political affiliations that would tend to reject the entire concept of some kind of overriding power construct that governs human interactions, and that in all interactions between people there is necessarily an oppressor and an oppressed. Mine, for instance.

There is a simple biological fact that it takes a man three minutes to become a father, but it takes a woman nine months to have a baby. Because of this there are certain innate differences in how men and women behave and treat the opposite sex. Males are programmed to compete with each other for access to resources and females. Evolutionarily, they are also more expendable, so they are programmed to accept higher risk-reward ratios.

Humans also seem to be programmed towards loyalty to the tribe, and to resist outsiders. The brain naturally matches people into us and them groups.

Until we can evolve into the Star Trek Metrons, creatures of pure thought and energy, we are going to be bound to these behaviors that are encoded into our DNA. Education can overcome some of the more blatant displays of these attitudes, but they can never eliminate them completely.