Women pretend they were once slaves to men, but women are slaves to their uteruses and their frailty.Īrmy studies have shown that an extremely athletic young woman in her prime is roughly as capable as a somewhat fit 55 year old man. Although I conflate several aspects of agency in this article, metaphysical, physical, and social, it does not harm my assertion that women generally lack agency in every area. Agency ExplainedĪgency is the concept that creatures have both the capacity and the physical ability to act in the world according to their own desires. Women should be grateful for culture that took benevolent care of their gender even though they were nearly useless in every way. Women were viewed much like children: a liability, a burden, a responsibility. The ancient patriarchs had almost no use for a woman, the ancient women had almost no benefit to a rich and powerful man. A powerful and rich man of our ancestral past would use tutors for his children, servants for cooking and cleaning, and his wife would serve little other purpose than birthing and nursing, although nursing could be outsourced to wet nurses as well. That includes nurturing, educating, cooking, cleaning, home making, healthcare, and so on. It is not as well known today that men can do every task a woman can do, other than nursing a baby, better than a woman.
It is well known that single motherhood is the bane of humanity. Mill is one of the most remarkable economists of all time, and was raised entirely by his father and Jeremy Bentham his mother was absent the picture. A study in Europe showed that the religiosity of the father has several magnitudes more influence upon the eventual religiosity of the adult offspring. J.S. Additional studies show that single men raise more successful offspring than single mothers or homosexuals. Studies have shown that the success of children-come-adults largely relies upon the presence of fathers during childhood. Motherhood is an ontological actuality, something that can be seen in her own blood and breast fatherhood is mostly an abstract idea with its ontological foundation resting in the genetics of a third party. In nearly all capacities a man can become what a father is through parallel efforts. Men are the same men they were before childbirth. Men, on the other hand, are not changed by fatherhood in the way that women are changed through motherhood. A woman cannot become a mother without men and boys defining her as one her most biologically significant achievement and social identity is utterly dependent upon a man impregnating and protecting her, and the children occupying her womb choosing to uphold their teachings. (Yes, there are some gorgeous women with great intellectual accomplishments, but ladies can’t all be Hedy Lamarr, can they?)Įven if you counter that all boys are first dependent upon their mothers, you must admit that boys are not “great men” in the context of “All Great Men…” Nor can a woman even become a mother without a man to impregnate her, and a boy to gestate in her. Not only are there a great many men who had nothing to do with women during their adult lives, such as Saint Paul who authored most of the Christian Bible’s New Testament and remarked that he had the “gift” of singleness, but there are NO women in history who were able to survive very long without a man, or men close by and willing to enable their merest survival, let alone their few extraordinary accomplishments.
Men also excel in almost every way where a woman is useful. Women inherently lack agency, both moral and physical when compared to men.
I would like to put a myth to rest: “Behind Every Great Man is a Great Woman.” This maxim is utterly false, and easily demonstrated to be the polar opposite of truth.