Thread by @TruueDiscipline

Going to do a thread on this book claiming that women have actually been the privileged sex throughout history.
amazon.com/Privileged-Sex…

45% of Nazi voters in 1930 were female. I calculated that in 2024 about 48% of Trump voters were female.

Cultures practice male and female circumcision, but female circumcision is never a test of character or strength.

In 1900 girls outnumbered boys 3 to 2:

Male academics are generally more productive than female academics, and men make up the majority of full time professors even at female colleges.

Women have generally done easier work throughout history than men:

UN Survey from many different countries finds men do twice as much work overall.

Men do more overtime than women. When women entered auto factories, they demanded that mandatory overtime be abolished. When voluntary overtime was instituted they demanded that be removed as well since men took advantage of it more.

How do women manage to survive while working less? Because men support them through various mechanisms.

Men are even required to provide for their wives after divorce, and even pay for their legal fees.

Oftentimes there has been an emphasis on charities set up to financially look after single women. In some cases they were given monopolies over certain trades notably spinsters.

Another thing that he points out is that legal systems are generally more favorable to women. He makes the case that domestic violence is more symmetrical than people think.

The next point is that women are generally exempt from serving. In the Wehrmacht there were entire battalions of deaf men and men with stomach ulcers but of course none of women.

Women were also generally treated better in POW camps:

Be male and overthrow the government? get killed. Be female? get one night in jail.

For most of history, women outlived men, but due to civilization that was reversed:

Women also generally complain more than men, and their complaints are often taken seriously.

The author covers a lot of different societies so it is hard to tell how representative his examples are. His main points are that women have easier lives because:
>They are the selectors for reproduction
>The do less and easier work
>Men provide for them

>They don't fight in wars
>Their complaints are taken more seriously

Similar books I have covered:

https://x.com/TruueDiscipline/status/1829700027163537691

Is there anything good about men?

https://x.com/TruueDiscipline/status/1749664975659094044

Lineages of the Feminine:

https://x.com/TruueDiscipline/status/1824606717981962532

Of Boys and Men

https://x.com/TruueDiscipline/status/1751532605726748768

If you have a book I should review next lmk

Whoops should be other way around