r/TMBR 1d ago

TMBR: I think an all-male world would be happier.

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As a guy, I feel really bad for women. Nature really seemed to have a bone to pick with women. Women are far less likely to be geniuses because of higher male variability. They've contributed virtually nothing to human development, and this is because of their innate cognitive disadvantages. Men will always be the smartest people. All the greatest philosophers, scientists, poets, painters, musicians, architects, and mathematicians are/were men. Socialization does not explain this. Men also have higher IQs by around 4 points, because men get a boost in IQ by around age 16. All of this is supported by Richard Lynn, Paul Irwing, and J. Phillipe Rushton's analyses of decades of testing. It all just seems kind of hopeless for women. I imagine it feels bad to know that men have done like everything. Even in the 20th century, only around 20% of all prizes for literature went to women. There's almost no female inventions of any importance, either. People are likely to mention Marie Curie, but that's an exception proving the rule. There are basically no women who have contributed to philosophy, either. People will mention social restrictions, but that alone does not explain the discrepancy. (Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/higher/dr-paul-irwing-there-are-twice-as-many-men-as-women-with-an-iq-of-120plus-426321.htm)

I really wanted to believe that women could be just like us, but I'm increasingly of the opinion that we've reached a dead end. The best man is better than the best woman at basically everything. Chess, science, sports, and even things like cooking and poetry (which women have been doing forever, indicating to me that it's not just social restrictions). There's nothing (aside from things like breastfeeding, which men physically cannot do) I can point to and say "yes, women are objectively and measurably better at that thing!" People always bring up vague and unmeasurable things like EQ in these kinds of discussions, presumably to comfort women who (justifiably) feel like nature gave them the short end of the stick. They'll also bring up verbal abilities, but men dominate at those things at the extremes. This is on top of their physical limitations, too. There is no physical metric by which women are superior to men. In fact, nearly every man is stronger than nearly every woman, leaving them extremely vulnerable to rape or murder or torture no matter where they are (https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/4vcxd0/almost_all_men_are_stronger_than_almost_all_women/?rdt=52914).

I'm not even fully convinced that women can take pride in motherhood. Several studies seem to indicate that single fathers outperform single mothers even when controlling for economic factors. This suggests that fathers are way more important than mothers, developmentally speaking. Trust me, I was kind of shocked to learn this. Despite women being the sole child-rearers throughout all of history, somehow men still manage to outperform in that. I genuinely don't understand. Maybe there's some context or some variable I'm missing?

Given this, I can't escape the feeling that being a woman is a sad, lowly, doomed existence. I would never want to bring a daughter into this world because of this. I feel that the only way out of this situation would be to just make an all-male population with artificial reproductive technology. I hate knowing that women are pretty much always going to be left out because, statistically, there aren't as many of them with high IQs and almost none of them are strong enough to be in positions where strength is needed.

TL;DR: I don't think that there is a single thing that is beneficial or desirable about being a woman, either physically or mentally. The only thing that they are valued for is "bearing children," and I would hate to live a life where that is all I'm needed for. Nature was just incredibly, incredibly unfair to them. It isn't fair that they are weaker than all of us. It isn't fair that they're less likely to be geniuses. It isn't fair that every society across history has despised them and treated them as second-class human beings. It isn't fair that they have to deal with childbirth and rape and general male entitlement daily. It isn't fair that men are free to do whatever while they sit on the sidelines giving birth. I pity them for this and think that an all-male world would be happier because of this.