Why most men are pussies?
Are they really?
They never stand up for themselves.
Try browbeating the next guy shorter than u on the street into something and see what happens.
They restore to a passive-aggressive attitude.
Haven’t seen this
If you really believe this, mess with some randos and find out
No idea what ur talking about
They let their wives kick their asses
Those cases are more to do with a lack of intellectual or social cunning than weakness. When you’re pair bonded to a woman, esp if the relationship is good, she has some power over you. Men who can resist this have always been a minority, except in societies that straight-up devalue women. History shows repeatedly that most manly men in many societies could be swayed by their wives/mistresses/lovers to do all sorts of things.
And it is prevalent in Western culture.
Go to the right neighborhood in London, New York, Chicago, LA, anywhere else, doesn’t matter, and try to…experimentally verify your hypothesis. You’ll soon see the truth.
One explanation Chase pointed out is that men grow up in Western societies, believing that the system will protect them.
That isn’t the phenomenon he was explaining though.
Therefore, they always follow the process while in other cultures they know the system is corrupt so they have to take matters into their own hands.
It has nothing to do with the system and everything to do with cultural values. Get into an argument with some guys from other cultures and you’ll see.
The fact is that Western men, on average, are still way more openly assertive and aggressive than half the world’s men.
I think men evolved to resolve conflicts physically
Well as a last resort, sure, but if men had evolved to primarily use their fists we’d either be stuck in the stone age or living under a global matriarchy.
since that has been (mostly) taken off the table they are forced to repress such aspects and take on a more relationally aggressive approach.
I don’t really get this. Not much has changed. Appeal to authority sometimes replaces physical violence, but the initial steps are all the same.
Even just being direct verbally xan be punished harshly with reputational damage.
This part is valid but it’s hardly new and has more to do with women. And the influence of women isn’t new; any society that doesn’t have either gender segregation day to day or women-as-chattel is gonna have that.
Another explanation is the idea we evolved for social status hierarchies in small tribes
The common assumption that prehistory was more like Conan the Barbarian than anything else is totally BS. In fact, the terms “hierarchy” and “small tribe” are virtually oxymorons.
Humans appear to have had the following things, among many others, for significantly longer than hierarchy:
-Dogs
-Long-distance trade
-Mining
-Wind instruments
-Naked-eye astronomy
-Pottery
-Circumcision
-Sewing
These are just the ones that aren’t really debated. A lot of other inventions, like bread, come from societies subject to scholarly debate about whether they had a hierarchy.
so as you feel lower status you repress yourself more and more for fear of endangering yourself
Nah. Power may come into it, but not status. And with high enough stakes any healthy man will fight.
Not what that means. Actually it’s a way to keep people from getting too high status and lording it over everyone else. I hear it’s a big thing in Australia.
but we in a sense live in one massive tribe today so most guys feel extremely repressed because subconsciously it is interpreted as a massive pecking order with tons of higher ups.
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I’m surprised you haven’t heard of Nietzsche. At least he was better able to point out the problems than this thread.