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I freely accept that the 80/20 split is in of itself not a bad thing (for a western atomised society), what's bad is the traits currently being selected for by women. Men, like all humans, respond to incentives, and what women are incentivising men to behave like to get short term casual sex (which men value higher than women, and it's men's value system that determines how they behave, not women's), is not a good thing. I'm not talking about the long term genetic impacts, that happens over too long time scales to really matter, I'm talking about short and medium term social impacts on society.
In fact the biggest issue with that split is that men are more violent when they have nothing to lose, so society needs to give them something to lose if they behave badly (this can be stuff as simple as skins in their favourite video game). Alternatively you change the societal gender ratio to be more like that of a beehive by gestating 4 female embryos in an artificial womb for every male birth. If women can do everything men can then workforce wise this shouldn't be a societal issue.
A brilliant troll for sure. But unfortunately most necessary work outside the household is done by men. To a rounding error, all dangerous work is done by men.
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How? Jane says to John "John, you're so bad boy, come and fuck me". John declines and does not respond. Jane finds another bad boy to have sex with. Dynamic continues.
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