{"id":1024,"date":"2020-08-20T07:00:24","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T21:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2dpoint.net\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2021-07-02T07:24:55","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T20:54:55","slug":"why-are-men-more-violent-than-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2dpoint.net\/why-are-men-more-violent-than-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are men more violent than women?"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

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1. Factor 1: Evolution & History<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n
2. Life in prehistoric times was difficult; resources were limited, and killing the competitors (neighbours, other tribes) was the only way to survive.<\/span><\/li>\n
3. So, stronger and more violent people would acquire more resources and, therefore, survive.<\/span><\/li>\n
4. This meant offspring of stronger, more violent people got to live and {tooltip}carry forward such genes.*{end-text}This cycle continued generation after generation, moving more and more in favour of aggressive and violent people.{end-tooltip}<\/span><\/li>\n
5. And to carry forward genes, the mother’s survival is more critical than that of the father, i.e., if a mother wants her offspring to survive, she must be equally concerned with her own survival.<\/span><\/li>\n
6. Since engaging in violence risked survival, women evolved psychologically in favour of childbearing to avoid dangers from combats.<\/span><\/li>\n
7. And men evolved to have higher propensities for violence, which were further supported by their physiological evolution.<\/span><\/li>\n
8. E.g., men gained more muscle mass (fighting, throwing, lifting, running), more lung volume & haemoglobin (greater oxygen-carrying capacity), and more vitamin K (clotting and faster healing of wounds) than women.<\/span><\/li>\n
9. When agriculture came in, this physical strength gave men an upper hand in labour-intensive tasks (ploughing, handling bulls, herding) and women started to depend on them economically as well.<\/span><\/li>\n
10. This created a power imbalance, which became a social norm, and any man who couldn’t fit this norm was perceived as weak; research has found “overcoming this perception” to be one of the main reasons for intense anger and violence among men.<\/span><\/li>\n
11. Factor 2: Genetic inferiority<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n
12. A human body has 1 trillion cells (1 followed by 12 zeros), and each cell has 20,000\u00a0<\/span>genes<\/span><\/a>\u00a0or instructions.<\/span><\/li>\n
13. One of these instructions (<\/span>MAOA gene<\/span><\/a>) is “how to use and recycle {tooltip}chemicals<\/span>*<\/span><\/strong>{end-text}Serotonin, epinephrine, norepinephrine, and dopamine.{end-tooltip} that regulate mood & emotion and reduce stress?”.<\/span><\/li>\n
14. Some men & women, especially those with any history in the family of having faced oppression, abuse, or war-like situations, have low-activity MAOA (denoted MAOA-L), which means mood-regulating chemicals are not recycled quickly enough and, therefore, upon provocation, these people can become violent.<\/span><\/li>\n
15. Females have two copies of MAOA, so even if their MAOA was MAOA-L, they have an extra copy to compensate for low activity.<\/span><\/li>\n
16. On the other hand, males have only one copy of MAOA, and if that MAOA happens to be {tooltip}MAOA-L<\/span>*<\/span><\/strong>{end-text}Because of its contribution to aggression, MAOA-L has been labelled as the Warrior Gene{end-tooltip}, men are likely to respond to negative experiences extremely or violently.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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