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Nietzsche: "the propagation of the species depends on the duality of the sexes, their constant conflicts and periodic acts of reconciliation"
 Schopenhauer: everything



 Stipulated: Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, we can expect misogyny with a bitter twist.  When mansplaining introduces Sparta, there's gonna be some chest pounding and probably eugenics.

I'm quoting a portion of europasoberana's five-part series on Sparta that discusses the man-woman-thing. 

Spartans  thought of  "home" thought in terms of mother, sisters, wives and daughters of country.  Sacred ideal  had a female character, and protecting the homeland amounted to protecting their women. Men do not protect themselves: they  defend the distant shell heart, the sacred heart, and men sacrifice in honor of that heart. In Sparta than anywhere else, women represented the inner circle, while men accounted for the protective outer wall.

Man is a ticking time bomb. Inside ferment and burn all energies and essences, if not channeled, are negative when poured out, as these forces come from the "dark side" and your first inclination is chaos and destruction. The aggressiveness of man, his killer instinct, his tendency to own and submit their high sex drive, its greatest strength, courage, power, will, strength and toughness, makes men have to undergo a special discipline that cultivates and channels these energies in order to achieve great things, especially when it comes to healthy young men of powerful natural instincts, failing which their spirits suffer a huge risk. Asceticism itself (as sacrifice) is much more like the man of the woman. In fact, the Indo-European woman have never  been subjected to disciplinary systems so severe as those of ancient armies. It was regarded by the men of old as a "magical" creature, as there hindered him the roars of the inner beast. For all these reasons, it was just that male education more severe and rigorous than female, because that's how you train the beast.

I'm worried about human treachery & brutality

On Edge.com 151 top scientists, technologists, writers, and academics respond to the question "What Should We Be Worried About?"

Only five responses are indisputably about the man-woman-thing.

13. The dearth of desirable mates is something we should worry about, for "it lies behind much human treachery and brutality.” –David M. Buss, professor of psychology at U of T

33. Men. –Helen Fisher, biological anthropologist
 
84. The surplus of testosterone caused by a gender gap in China. –Robert Kurzban, psychologist

94. “We should worry about losing lust as the guiding principle for the reproduction of our species.” –Tor Norretranders, science writer

98. “What worries me is that the debate about gender differences still seems to polarize nature vs. nurture, with some in the social sciences and humanities wanting to assert that biology plays no role at all, apparently unaware of the scientific evidence to the contrary” -- Simon Baron-Cohen, psychologist

Although ADD and ADHD would be profitable on a global scale.

42. That Americans are homogenizing and exporting their view of a normal mind around the world. –P. Murali Doraiswamy, professor of psychiatry

Why Men Oppress Women-- The psychology of male domination

Steve Taylor, Psychology Today:  Even if they belonged to higher social classes, most women throughout history have effectively been slaves. Until recent times, women throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia were unable to have any influence over the political, religious or cultural lives of their societies. They couldn’t own property or inherit land and wealth, and were frequently treated as mere property themselves.  

There have been attempts to explain the oppression of women in biological terms. For example, in his book The Inevitablity of Patriarchy, the sociologist Stephen Goldberg suggests that men are naturally more competitive than women because of their high level of testosterone. This makes them aggressive and power-hungry, so that they inevitably take over the high status positions in a society, leaving women to the more subordinate roles.

The oppression of women is a symptom of a disorder I call humania. It’s one thing to take over the positions of power in a society, but another to seemingly despise women, and inflict so much brutality and degradation on them. What sane species would treat half of its members — and the very half which gives birth to the whole species — with such contempt and injustice? Despite their high level of testosterone, the men of many ancient and indigenous cultures revered women for their life-giving and nurturing role, so why don’t we?

The oppression of women stems largely from men’s desire for power and control. The same need which, throughout history, has driven men to try to conquer and subjugate other groups or nations, and to oppress other classes or groups in their own society, drives them to dominate and oppress women. Since men feel the need to gain as much power and control as they can, they steal away power and control from women. They deny women the right to make decisions so that they can make them for them, leave women unable to direct their own lives so that they can direct their lives for them. Ultimately, they’re trying to increase their sense of significance and status, in an effort to offset the discontent and sense of lack created by humania.

But even this isn’t enough to explain the full terrible saga of man’s inhumanity to woman. Many cultures have had a strong antagonism towards women, viewing them as impure and innately sinful creatures who have been sent by the devil to lead men astray. 

Are M/f dominance and submission roles re-enactments of historical oppression?   

Violence and Aggression Between the Sexes

Men's Rights bloggers claim that violence committed against men, by women, is widespread, unreported, and a serious social problem.  I have idly googled in search of valid statistics to support this claim, looking for Emergency Room, arrest, and Cause of Death data.


Violence committed against women, by men, continues to be widespread, widely reported, and a serious social problem