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You might also look at any other mammal to see how it is almost always the males that are the most violent.
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That is what I mean: we accept male violence, and then mumble something vague about how this is some sort of general biologically determined thing, probably. This is lovely and simple, and saves us having to think too hard about things like privilege, uneven distributions of power, and social norms that have developed during thousands of years of the kind of sexism that even you would find extreme.
It is like saying 19th century aristocrats are just naturally more suitable for officer's roles in the Navy. It helps to legitimize the status quo as somehow pre-ordained, the result of a natural law, rather than the result of a system that favors a group of people you belong to.
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the equating of social mores with some sort of ordained natural order in order to legitimize a condescending paternalism
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And yes indeed, down that road you go, pretty much as predicted.