Structural Dependants

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The Meta-Reality

The thought that women are something like tall children has crossed every man’s mind at some point. Some suppress it and rationalize it away to maintain the broader narrative of equality. Others sense there’s truth in it but can’t quite articulate why it feels that way.

While many aspects of this instinct can be unpacked, at its core is a simple reality: women are dependents of men. Yes, they hold more responsibilities than a child, but they are not burdened with creating and maintaining civilization, society, or its institutions. There is no performance demand on them to be deserving or make demands. There is no burden of performance to protect and provide or to fulfill the biological imperative to procreate.

We see this everywhere in structural terms. The grand bargain seems to be: “Women, just have kids — we’ll pay for it.”

Taxes

To illustrate this view, one core aspect of our society we can examine is taxes.

"We deserve."

And how do dependents behave? They demand more and justify why they deserve it. This becomes dangerous when they enter the political process, making demands through bureaucracies that grant them what they want without ever having to bargain with men as individuals to get it.

The grand bargain of “Women, just have kids — we’ll pay for it” is only tenable when it is tempered by the dynamics between individuals. When that dynamic is overridden, democracy becomes ineffective at ordering society.

A question for science.

One thing I’d love to see studied is whether, since women evolved as dependents, they may have developed an evolutionary drive to never be fully satisfied with what is being provided — a trait that pushes their sexual selection toward men who can provide more and more. If that’s true, what happens when this evolutionary dynamic collides with politics?

In any case, the current academic approach to gender and power is one-sided. A real reckoning will come when scholarship can freely analyze female behavior and power dynamics with the same rigor long applied to men. The current equality paradigm will not hold up to scrutiny.

What do you think?

There is a lot to be said on this topic but I can't turn today's post into a sprawling dissertation. Let me know what you think.