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heikstheo · #9 (**permalink**) 04-24-2006, 06:20 PM

The main difference between men and women is the size of their investment in the reproductive act. A woman gets something like, I think, 450 egg cells in her entire life. Naturally, she probably will not use all 450 of those egg cells excercising her fertility. After all, how many women would want to be pregnant for 4050 months (337 1/2 years), even if they could, especially with all the attendant morning sickness, the swelling, the lower back pain, the baby sitting on her bladder, the labor pains, the possibility of needing a C-section, and the pain of rebuilding an umbilical cord? The man, on the other hand, makes his little deposit of 250,000,000 to 500,000,000 sperm cells, so the male reproductive cells are relatively cheap by comparison. The woman's evolutionary desire is for a man who is man enough to extend to her his physical and financial protection while she is pregnant and while she is raising the child(ren) to maturity. Hence, the importance of love and loyalty to the human female. The man, on the other hand, because he can, has as his evolutionary desire as many children as possible, which includes a few low-risk children (that is, children of the legitimate wife, who are under his protection and therefore more likely to survive) and many high-risk children (that is, children he sired from uncommitted relationships, who he may not even know about, who are not under his protection and may be less likely to survive, but, hey, there's so many of them, some will be likely to survive and pass on his DNA). So here is where culture and religion come in. They try to soothe the savage beast and convince male humanoids that they should make a committment to all of their children and hence to the mother of their children and therefore limit sex to marriage.

That said, women do sometimes experience that raw lust that says, "d..., I'd like to f... his lights out." However, there is a little fly in the ointment here. Patriarchy (the sociopolitical system of rule by men), like most successful dominator polities and ideologies, practices "divide and conquer." Hence, men divide women into "nice girls" and "bad girls." The "nice girls" are the goody little two shoes virgins on their wedding nights, the ones who almost undoubtedly have immaculate conceptions and virgin births, in short, the kind of girl that guys allegedly are supposed to bring home to mother. The "bad girls" are the, um, sexually free women, the s/uts and the *ho**s of the world, the kind of girl that guys allegedly are not supposed to bring home to mother. Because many, if not most, women have such a powerful social urge to fall within the "nice girl" category, they can only seem to project that urge to "f... his lights out" upon a "bad boy" type (you know, the cheap arse male gutter s/ut who gives all men a bad name). Thus, the fact that a woman in her peak reproductive years will likely be drawn towards the "bad boy" type, combined with the fact that the "nice boy" type (who wants to be a virgin on his wedding night and maybe doesn't even care whether or not she's still a virgin, provided she's actually enjoyed it if she's had it) will likely be too shy to introduce himself to a woman for fear of being seen as too forward (combined with the fact that many, and perhaps most, women may fear being seen as too forward for asking a man) conspires to give women the notion that all men are @$$h01e$.

Thus, what you have going on here is largely a cultural thing. And, no, the fact that you were born with a y chromosome does not necessarily mean that you are doomed to be an @$$h01e or a rapist. You do have free will. Hopefully, some pretty girl will notice that you're not like all the rest. And maybe she'll end up having a loving long-term relationship with you.