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The Uncomfortable Science Of Sex Differences - Steve Stewart-Williams - #1120
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Do Men Actually Talk More Than Women?
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Stewart-Williams outlines how the aggression sex difference is not monolithic but scales with severity. Verbal aggression shows a modest gap (effect size ~0.5). Physical aggression shows a larger one. Homicide shows an enormous one: over 90% of killings are perpetrated by men in every nation where data exists. The chimpanzee comparison is striking — male chimps commit 92% of chimpicides and make up 73% of victims, virtually identical to human ratios of 95% and 70–80%. Both patterns trace to the same evolutionary root: male reproductive variance creates intense selection for within-sex competition. Sexual violence is then examined as the interaction of two sex differences — men's greater interest in casual sex and their greater willingness to use violence — and Stewart-Williams argues that the depth of women's evolutionary distress at sexual coercion reflects the fact that female mate choice is one of the most evolutionarily fundamental and protected drives across the animal kingdom. Analysis is not justification: the evolutionary account explains the pattern without excusing a single instance of it.
