Part 2 - The societal misrepresentation of men.
Read the preceding article
‘Dangerous’, is about the capacity and the likelihood to
do harm. So does male biology make men
dangerous?
In the words of Robin Williams, “…the problem is god gave
men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.” Biologically speaking, it’s a little bit
true.
In every species on the planet it has been proven that the higher
the levels of testosterone
in your blood stream, the more
aggressive, the more
sexual, you become. While men
predominantly have more testosterone than women, it is also present in females—when
humans age, female testosterone levels increase and male testosterone levels
decrease, normally influencing the behaviours of both. Both genders when exposed to higher levels of
testosterone during early development are shown to be “more
competitive, more assertive, and more socially dominant.” (–Dr Nigel Barber
Ph.D)*
None of these traits equal ‘dangerous’; aggression is not
synonymous with ‘violence’, though it is often seen that way (and with reason).
Aggressive
behaviour is a willingness to promote your own objectives when in competition
with others, it speaks of confrontation. If you do that well and with tact; we call it
‘assertive’ instead of ‘aggressive’—however, assertiveness is learned, whereas
aggression is part of nature. The
qualities associated with high levels of testosterone speak to a biological
push to assert whatever powerbase you have to achieve your goals, testosterone
is therefore first and foremost a survival mechanism for when you are competing
for food, resources and or a mate.
As men are predominantly required to be the sexual pursuer instead of the
pursued, male testosterone levels mainly increase in response to
sexual drivers as part of the evolutionary biological imperative. This means male testosterone spikes happen
foremost at puberty, in response to sexual activity (both lack and excess
thereof), as well as certain
environmental conditions such as higher male to female ratios in their
environment or after the end of a significant relationship. Therefore in the question of whether biology
makes men more sexual than women, yes, it is a biological norm for that to
be the case. However, all humans are
affected by any hormone to a varying degree; none of us are affected equally. A
high testosterone female is likely to be far more sexual than a low
testosterone male.
Does this mean that men are biologically more prone to
violence than women? Are they dangerous? A high testosterone female will be just as
aggressive as a high testosterone male and more so than a low testosterone
person of either gender, but in each instance, ‘aggressive’ does not
automatically equal ‘violent’. Even in
the instance that it did, ‘violent’ is not the only means for being
‘dangerous’.
Continue on to this week's final article: Gender Powerbase—Do both genders have a capacity to be dangerous?
*On a side note, this could suggest that if you take issue with the idea of patriarchy, it’s more practical to be angry at God or evolution than ‘men’. Societal evolution is influenced first and foremost by human evolution. Consider that most early tribes had a leadership made up of the strongest male, and an old wise woman—the two tribal brackets with the highest levels of testosterone. Testosterone creates a hormonal imperative to be socially dominant; when oestrogen (the prominent hormone in young women) spikes it causes depression and anxiety which promotes submissive behaviour in the face of dominant behaviour. Knowing those things now allows us to choose new behaviours rather than rely on evolutionary ones.
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