<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # The female does not require the male to introduce... > The female does not require the male to introduce violence into the social order. She{The female primate{ competes, dominates, exploits vulnerability, defends access to food and space, participates in lethal coalitions and destroys another female's offspring when rank, opportunity and competition line up,}} and there{There{ is no biological basis for pretending that a creature stands outside the theater of scarcity and reproductive conflict merely because she also gestates and nurses.}} {{Birth confers no exemption from nature.}} {{The female primate does not stand outside the jungle merely because she gives birth inside it.}} And notice, again, the recurrent obscenity of **advantage**. The female-led attacks were never random detonations aimed at whoever happened to be nearby. One or more attackers outranked the victim. Coalitions were common. Victims lacked kin support. The violence clustered wherever retaliation was difficult, which means that what{What{ polite civilization calls cowardice is considerably older than civilization: cruelty becomes attractive at exactly the moment its price falls.}} {{The jungle does not reward fairness. It rewards what works, and it has no other rule.}} **Source:** [[books/Chimping Out|Chimping Out]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “The female does not require the male to introduce violence into the social order. She competes, dominates, exploits vulnerability, defends access to food and space, participates in lethal coalitions and destroys another female's offspring when rank, opportunity and competition line up, and there is no biological basis for pretending that a creature stands outside the theater of scarcity and reproductive conflict merely because she also gestates and nurses. Birth confers no exemption from nature. The female primate does not stand outside the jungle merely because she gives birth inside it. And notice, again, the recurrent obscenity of advantage. The female-led attacks were never random detonations aimed at whoever happened to be nearby. One or more attackers outranked the victim. Coalitions were common. Victims lacked kin support. The violence clustered wherever retaliation was difficult, which means that what polite civilization calls cowardice is considerably older than civilization: cruelty becomes attractive at exactly the moment its price falls. The jungle does not reward fairness. It rewards what works, and it has no other rule.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/passages/passages-female-require-male-works-no-rule ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->