Why Men Rule the World

[elew4too]

*Disclaimer: an opinion to start discussion*

The Intro
Men rule society because we're willing to compromise individuality on a mass scale. Men like being unique to an extent, but we're less variable (for math nerds: we have a smaller standard deviation :-)) than women; we don't mind being generalized as much, and we may see similarities among men as a thing to be desired rather than a thing to be shunned. Don't believe me? Analyze the following scenario:

Person A is wearing a red shirt. Person B is wearing the same red shirt. You tell Person B that they're wearing the same shirt as Person A. How does Person B feel?

I imagine your answer would change based on whether Persons A and B are men or women. Men are pushed and pulled to conform, and we do it willingly.

The Push
Critical thought about social norms is discouraged among men. In other words, if a guy has an opinion that differs from social norms, he's more likely to think that he has a problem rather than think society at large has a problem. For example, a guy who knows he's insecure may lament about how women don't appreciate insecure guys, but he's not gonna try to start a campaign convincing anyone to give insecure guys a chance. Instead, an insecure guy will either try and be more confident, or he'll recognize that he has a trait that isn't attractive to most women. You see this type of "concession to reality" a lot. Some guys who get repeatedly rejected will just give up on women (or men) altogether, and the big is beautiful movement doesn't have many male representatives.

Fairness isn't much of a sticking point among men either. For example, most men believe that if they do a bad job, they should be compensated worse than someone else similarly situated [1]. We recognize that some guys will be better with women; some guys will be smarter; some will make more money, etc. Thus, we stratify ourselves and form hierarchies. Although hierarchies may not seem conducive to unity, there are enough different hierarchies within a man's life (e.g. who's best at video games, who's most athletic, who's most punctual, etc.) that he's bound to feel dominant at something among his peers, which eases tension and senses of inferiority.

A sense of inferiority, conversely, is why men are more willing to fall in line with other men's beliefs. We fall in line at the risk of being ostracized (e.g. being called a wimp, sissy, etc.) by both men AND women. For instance, there are men who don't like sports and sex, but you'd be hard-pressed to find a guy excited to differentiate himself on those grounds (especially to other guys, note the defensiveness in the meme)

The Pull
Men yearn for purpose. It's why most men embrace their preconceived societal roles (protector, provider, etc.) relatively more than women do, even if those roles may be outdated. I imagine it's why a lot of men get discouraged when their lady makes more money than them; divorce rates rise when wives make more than their husbands [2]. Most men hate feeling useless, especially in a relationship.

Even single men hate feeling useless. Men commit suicide in mass numbers during economic downturns [3], and societies are more likely to have civil wars when we're unemployed en masse [4]. Men like having a role, and when society gives them one, they don't argue with it. Hell, men will put their own life on the line if they're given a purpose to do so. Men have joined militaries over millennia only to be a private on the front lines . . . and enjoy it [5].

The Conclusion
Women are individuals whereas men are an entity. Neither style is better nor worse than the other. In fact, men's desire for conformity makes us easily predictable, hyper-nationalistic, and even dangerous at times. On the other hand, it allows us to easily coordinate our beliefs, and unity of opinion has a way of swaying societies. Some women lament that all men think the same, but is that necessarily a bad thing? Men run the world because we move as one.

The Sources:
[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/08/why-women-prefer-working-together-and-why-men-prefer-working-alone/278888/
[2] https://www.npr.org/2015/02/08/384695833/what-happens-when-wives-earn-more-than-husbands
[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4151136/
[4] https://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/Staveteig.pdf
[5] https://www.sussex.ac.uk/webteam/gateway/file.php?name=2-harman-the-truth-about-men-in-the-front-line&site=15

[Anonymous]

Men rule the world because men are doers and achievers whereas women are more nurturers and socializers. I know I'll get a lot of hate for that one because it's a generalization, but we all know it's generally true. The differences are clear even in young children, although the feminists and SJWs will tell us it nurture, not nature (bullshit).

Men have an innate need to achieve, invent, explore, take risks, tinker with and improve things. Some women have those traits too, in varying degrees, but not nearly to the extent that men do. Combine those things with the power, assertiveness and aggressiveness that comes from having testosterone coursing through their veins and it's no mystery why men always have and always will rule the world.

Women have power in the world in their ability to influence and control men, and of course through the artificial power granted them by feminist laws. And of course women should have equal rights and protections under the law, but we shouldn't try to explain the differences in the power and achievements of men versus women as sexism. It's not sexism; it's nature.

[Kkaos]

This is just basic truth and anyone who doesn't admit to it is deluding themselves and it's disgusting how you could possibly be attacked for expressing these facts. I'm sick of cretins in our society trying to hide basic truth just because it might offend them.

[Jenima]

I upvoted you. You are so right. I'm not the type of woman who fits the "traditional description" of the female but some things are just true. That's it.

[Opinion Owner]

@Jenima Thank you Jenima, for being honest. :)

[OatsnWhey]

Great opinion.

[MrNameless]

I disagree. In all the jobs I've had out of university, my female coworkers have really took initiative to get shit done at work, and they tend to take less breaks as well

[levantine99]

what a bunch of crockshit did i just read? i'd love to be able to say it was a bunch of stereotypes but it wasn't even that. it was a bunch of asspulls alone.. .

[silverqueen]

And,... of course it was written by a guy! Lol

[silverqueen]

“Person A is wearing a red shirt. Person B is wearing the same red shirt. You tell Person B that they're wearing the same shirt as Person A. How does Person B feel?”

I think we all know what you’re referring to. Now let me give you another scenario:

Person A is dating a person who is socially perceived as fat. Person B is dating someone who is perceived as sexy. How do each other feel? Usually what Person B does is make fun of Person A for dating a fat person. Person A feels bad and dumps the fat person, and never does that again.

And another one:

Person A gets sexually harassed by the opposite sex. Person B says- “Lucky bastard! She is fine! Go for her!” But Person A feels uncomfortable, not willing. person B calls Person A a pussy for not being up for it, and he is forced to accept the opposite sex’s advances because it is what “it’s supposed to” happen.

“if a guy has an opinion that differs from social norms, he's more likely to think that he has a problem rather than think society at large has a problem”... That is because social norms are mostly favoring guys. Guys are supposed to be the dominant ones; the leaders; the protectors. That’s why guys don’t mind. If he differs from this positive attribute, he will want to go to his socialized position, which overestimates him.

“... but he's not gonna try to start a campaign convincing anyone to give insecure guys a chance”... yes he will. Please look up “Nice Guys finish last” in google and you’ll see plenty of those.

Lastly- these “reasons” you give aren’t why men rule the world. Because they don’t. Human beings rule the world, not men. Sorry to burst your bubble.

[Nachowedgie]

Your person A and person B scenarios are totally subjective and thus don't stand in an argument standpoint

[Electric_Dreams]

Most of what you said about men doesn't apply to me. I am very non-conformist not fundamentally by decision but by nature. Having at this point in my life accepted that non-conformity is a significant part of my very nature, I do now consciously make decisions not to conform on occasions. However, it is an intrinsic part of my very nature, so even when I am not conforming as a very conscious decision, beneath that there are other factors which dictate that I would not have conformed anyway, even if I were still oblivious to my non-conformist nature (like I was as a child).

I have high functioning autism. I embrace it, am open and honest about it, but casual. In fact many people are very surprised when they learn it because I'm like a spiritual, hippy, bohemian dude with the styling' vintage peacockin' clothes and the ponytail and the chill vibes and actually quite extrovert personality traits. My very real, true inner self however is an introvert. Anyway, I believe my autism is what makes me so non-conformist by nature. The vast majority of autistic people (girls included) are very unique, individual, and are capable of seeing the blatant, blind conformity which is quite widespread in society, and feeling and exhibiting a natural aversion to it.

So I don't disagree with you, not at all. I however am very much an exception. And actually the more I think on it, I don't think your theory applies to most people with some degree of autism.

[Goochbreaker]

I could make an argument for the exact opposite conclusion. Both genders have their hive minds, females conformity is more prevalent than male conformity, men are more likely to have socially divergent opinions and not compromise their position for that of the group. Yeah, they will do anything to get laid for the most part (although there is a backlash recently) but besides that, every chance they can get without compromising reproduction, they will be more divergent opinion wise than a group of women. How often do you hear women arguing with eachother about the subtleties of politics and say 4 different opinions in a group of 5 females? Does. Not. Happen.

[The_Underground_Man]

Excellent article, though one thing I disagree with is the very notion that men as a collective body rule or have ever truly ruled the world. Such thinking lends too much credence to the feminist agenda. Rather, I believe that the few wealthy men at the top have always ruled the world whereas everyone else has always been viewed as expendable. Again, just look at warfare and especially the way it has historically taken advantage of the average male and sent them to die in wave tactics while the wealthy men get to be the politicians and officers who make warfare to begin with.

[anni27]

Do men rule the world, maybe some men do not many though. 99.99999999% of the men on here have no power at all. There few few people that actually have any power at all. The ones that say they do here either men or women are deluded. Maybe us girls give the guys here a break and let them think this. However I hope they will sit back and think what real power to rule they actually have, which is none. Best then to just try and make their lives better and they can do that by being nicer to us girls and get off their high horses.

[WynterWarrior]

It is odd are you asking a question or making a statement?

Men rule the world because we take risks even at our own expense. Pioneers and free thinker to push our people and humanity as a whole forward. Every single discovery and break through that grants modern lifestyle now is the invention of men.

Even things that women benefit from such as the epidural or tampons are the inventions of men.
We share this with women and some are in a fools quest to appease women that many of whom can not be appeased.

If the world was left to women we will be primitives in mud huts. An example of this are the Musuo tribe of China. An actual Matriarchy. They are primitives without electricity.

[oddwaffle]

Umm... No. Men ruled the world because the guy before then gave them the hat or the chair.

It's because they take crazy risky stuff and sometimes succeed.

What kind of idiot strap 2 wings on to his hands and jump off a building to see if he can fly? Do you think sensible women would ever do something like that?

[UnaKaizen]

I agree guys conform more readily to arbitrary rules and are less likely to be not revolutionary in spirit like women.. but i think this has to do with what they are conforming to.

if mens 'role;' was suddenly to cook and clean and serve in domestic setting, do you think they'd be running to conform to their 'purpose'?

conforming is not the same as uniting. uniting is a forcer. conforming is submission.

[Anonymous]

Men rule the world because for most of history that inheritance has been a thing, wealth and power went to other men.

Also, men don’t give birth and have historically been freed from most of the responsibility for children. It’s an enormous expenditure of energy that equates to no direct power or wealth.

[Bjdjcjx]

Men take risks that build big companies not women.

[Opinion Owner]

I agree that men tend to take more risks. But women haven’t been able to accumulate wealth and resources until recent history, so I think some of this will even out with time.

[Bjdjcjx]

No they won’t. 10% of millionaires are women and it’s dropping. This is considering women have better qualifications then men for decades. Also, most of that 10% is inheritances/marriage.

[Opinion Owner]

What I’m saying is that you can't undo centuries of a system in 50 years or less. I think both SJW AND neo-traditionalists tend to going too far with their beliefs.

[Opinion Owner]

For example - the studies that measure women making way more than the husband try to attribute certain data to the income discrepancy. However, it’s considered almost “common knowledge” that high earners tend to work long hours and be perfectionists and strivers. Heart attacks among execs are nearly cliche. I’d wager marital problems can stem from work-life balance problems, in MOST couples, not which sex earns what.

[Opinion Owner]

Millionaires certainly don’t fit into the OPs original statement of male conformity. The two of you are making disparate cases.

[Opinion Owner]

Unless you mean to say men are more likely to believe a man because he’s a millionaire, this doing labor for him?

[Bjdjcjx]

My uncle is a big multi millionaire. He’s got a big business. He doesn’t even work that hard because people work hard for him. He isn’t a perfectionist either. He took a huge risk of 100k 30yrs ago, he found a gap in the market.

[Bjdjcjx]

You don’t realise but you usually don’t get anywhere working for someone else which is why you’ll never make it big.

[Bjdjcjx]

Look Fortune 500 billionaires has 4% women and it’s dropping. It’s 2018, women have technically been independent from 1970s

[Opinion Owner]

I agree with you there about working for someone, but that’s opposite of what OP is saying.

[The_Underground_Man]

Men rule the world because it is our Darwinian nature to be the leaders and providers. You can’t argue with evolution. Otherwise traditional gender roles would not have existed across virtually every human society that ever existed for most of human history. Nurture merely reinforced that which already existed in nature. Men have taken much greater risks throughout history and made far greater sacrifices yet have still managed to stay at the top. Just look at warfare up to the First World War. Men were literally sent to die in wave tactics just to overwhelm the enemy while women had it easy.

[Bjdjcjx]

Okay, I’m out anyway. Good luck in life!

[Opinion Owner]

Stay alive/bjdjcjx

[Bjdjcjx]

I appreciate it. I’m just so hurt and upset in life. Never ending pain.

[Opinion Owner]

I’m so very sorry. Please try to hold out for better days. I can’t promise they’re there, but the chance always is.

[ovi2boss]

Some women who earn more and look for a partner they strive higher and then they leave their job to do something more easy for them.
Secondly others women who earn more or who are richer then their boyfriend tend to be played and lie and dominated.
What do you say about these?

[Opinion Owner]

I think we’ll see more high earning women with artistic type guys as time goes on.

[ovi2boss]

You see that, I see only a few of that type (like one) lol but I don't bet on it since I see only the surface. Who knows what lies beneath that surface? (Maybe they do)
A thing that I know about that is that they started young

[Jenima]

I agree that men rule the world but I think it is becausee generally they have the qualities required to do so as many have stated in the comments. I don't agree with you. You're generalising men's behavior too much and I think in real life, women are more conformists than men.

[Anonymous]

Well, I'm not specifically the average man is no different from the average woman. But men are the centre of attention. Men are like the main characters of one big video game, and then there are a few women main characters. Most media is aimed at men. Most 'important' jobs are predominantly inhabited by men. In the past, almost all work/jobs were physical. And biologically, by nature men are stronger and they are the ones to do the work better, But This is slowly changing, but it's still pretty obvious there is no real 'gender' equality. Why is this so? Do women like to be ruled?

[Onlythisone]

"men have a smaller standard deviation" huh...

www.sciencemag.org/.../study-finds-some-significant-differences-brains-men-and-women

[kaylaS91]

Touche on all counts.
Interesting way of presenting it but I suppose it succeeded in getting the attention (as well as that of many others, in due time).
Interesting read. :)

[UsernameMadness]

I call bs on this whole thing. Talk about generalisations. The men who run with the pack don't rule the world, they become corporate drones at best.. To stand out, do something different. The real reason men rule the world is because they want it more. Women have kids to look after.

[Naydyonov]

I somewhat agree.

"Critical thought about social norms is discouraged among men. In other words, if a guy has an opinion that differs from social norms, he's more likely to think that he has a problem rather than think society at large has a problem."

I don't quite see this applying to politics as men tend to hold more extreme views as compared to the general view of society

[Kazzy36]

Think you rule all if you please, but you were carried by a woman for 9 months, painfully delivered, likely breastfed, likely raised.
Women are just as important

[Nachowedgie]

We gave you the right to vote

[silverqueen]

@Nachowedgie If Women didn't push for this right, it wouldn’t happen.
If women didn’t allow men to take over, this whole “alllowing women to vote” wouldn’t happen. There’s a difference between men taking over by itself, and women allowing men to take over.

[Nachowedgie]

@silverqueen Women didn't allow men to take over xD it's natural that we did, it's all throughout nature, if you ever left your parents house you'd see that.

[silverqueen]

@Nachowedgie Haha... well now you have to resort to personal attacks to defend your point. What a pity. Although, if you think about it, women in fact did take the homemaker role at first. They weren’t forced to take it. They embarked on the caregiver role as well, since we chose to not let our children die at home. All of this could’ve easily been avoided if we simply didn’t do those things. So while we had a caregiver and a homemaker role, men were working outside the house. Working, making money, and not giving women equal treatment. They saw them as “less.”

If women weren’t the ones who stood up and demanded the right to vote, we wouldn’t be here in this modern world. If women had done that before, they would’ve had the right to vote ages ago.

Most men during that time didn’t want women to vote; it seems outrageous. Men didn’t “give” us the right- we earned it.

[silverqueen]

Seemed* outrageous

[Nachowedgie]

@silverqueen You've literally gone both ways in the same argument xD You say women chose the care-giving and homemaker roles even though that's been happening since the beginning of humankind and then when you point of the men go out and earn the money which mind you is what pays for the food and the house for the children you complain about being treated unequally. You apparently chose the lesser role so it's your fault. The whole "most men during that time didn't want women to vote" is simply not true because we had to vote on your behalf to allow you to vote in the first place which meant more than half of us obviously had to vote in favour of giving you the right to vote, that's how democracy works.

[raspberry0416]

Because men do not have to deal with pregnancy and childbirth. Also because men created a social system that excludes women from having power.
I don't agree with what you said. Men are individuals too, and your argument doesn't make sense.

[Kkaos]

"men created a social system that excludes women from having power" Men wouldn't be able to do that if they didn't rule to begin with.

Men have more testosterone and are stronger and more dominant on average and are therefore more likely to be leaders. That's just basic biology and that's the way it is with most mammals. It doesn't mean women can't be leaders, plenty of women make great leaders. But naturally more men are leaders and that's just the way life is.

[raspberry0416]

@Kkaos
It's pretty easy to do that when one gender is physically stronger than the other, and when women are tied up with having babies and taking care of them. Testosterone and physical strength don't make people good leaders. Other qualities do.

[Kkaos]

I never said anything about being good leaders, nowadays anyone can be a leader if they gain enough support. A lot of women don't seem to desire leadership roles though, men tend to be more power hungry.. Which again probably comes down to higher levels of testosterone. But those women who do strive for leadership roles can achieve them in a modern democratic society.

[ovi2boss]

Why a woman needs power if she looks for protection?

[raspberry0416]

@ovi2boss
Because men can't be trusted to protect us. They also don't understand women's perspective like a woman does.

[ovi2boss]

Show me your woman perspective

[Kkaos]

Protect you from what?

[chancellor]

"Because men do not have to deal with pregnancy and childbirth."
Okkay. I would feel blessed if I got that 'gift'

"Also because men created a social system that excludes women from having power"
😰😤😬

[OatsnWhey]

“Testosterone and physical strength don't make people good leaders. Other qualities do.”

Our endocrine systems aka hormonal systems actually have a major and direct influence on behavior and personality. Men produce 7x more testosterone than women and testosterone is the male sex hormone. Testosterone has a direct impact on how aggressive we are tagged along with a number of other things within our personality.

[raspberry0416]

@OatsnWhey
I'm saying aggression doesn't make someone a good leader. You need intelligence, compassion, a good work ethic, among other things. Testosterone makes men better at being brutes, not better people. I don't know why men think that being aggressive and assertive makes them better leaders. It's actually disruptive to society to be too aggressive and assertive.
And women also have individual goals and dreams and a desire to achieve them. These are not exclusively male qualities.

[Kkaos]

Testosterone is very much needed, we wouldn't have it if it wasn't needed. Life isn't all sunshine and roses. It's all fine to be caring and compassionate when things are fine, but when shit hits the fan.. Be that war, natural disasters etc, you need a leader who is dominant and commanding who people will listen to.

It's why the military is so disciplined and commands are shouted at, because when it's a matter of life and death, people won't listen to someone who isn't assertive.

I wouldn't disqualify testosterone leading to 'brutes' like that, everything we have is there for a reason. We have it as a result of thousands of years of evolution. Men and women typically fulfill different roles and the leadership role has biologically been given to men.

[ovi2boss]

@Kkaos actually if a man is probably without testosterone then he will be good for nothing as that's the thing responsable for their entire health system.

[raspberry0416]

@Kkaos
Ok I see that. But women can be assertive and commanding too, if people respect them enough to listen to them.

[SirRexington]

I agree with the "whisper" picture. It sums up how i feel about gender issues nowadays. Being macho means being aggressive and being a man is something entirely different.

[Sexyfeet]

Beware men women dont really need us to have children anymore an thier slowly feminizeing the world just watch news an true whem mom ain't happy none happy thats solid reality i could go on on but itll be nicer world

[DamnMan]

No one rules the world, but mama Earth. If she wills it, we're all dead.
Men rule the world because:
-We are stronger
-We think of solutions, not more problems
-Women let us. lol.