'The female sex may be seen as parasitic on male disposability – and this is true at great evolutionary depth, not just in human society.'
By William Collins aka MRA-UK: How deep does the rabbit hole go?Many have asked. There is an answer.
The answer is: the rabbit hole is several hundred million years deep.
Male disadvantage is as old as anisogamous sex itself. Ever since males became distinguished from females, males have been disadvantaged. And that happened not long, in evolutionary terms, after the dawn of multicellular organisms.
If males are privileged, or even if we are equal, where is my uterus?Feminists promote the view that the possession of a uterus is a burden. Certainly it was when the occupational hazard of being female was a succession of unwanted pregnancies and the curtailment of individual freedom which that imposed. In evolutionary terms, the female invests heavily in reproduction.
By the same token, in evolutionary terms, males might appear to have a lot of catching up to do as regards contribution to the reproductive endeavour. But too naive a view of these matters can lead otherwise sound scientific expositions into a pejorative – even misandric – view of male contribution, such as this quote from Lukas Schärer,
“The male sex can be seen as a parasite of the investment by the female sex”





