The One Fact About Men That Drives Men’s Anger and Fear of Women
The final part of a personal manifesto about what makes men good.
This article is the sixth in my Good Men Manifesto series. Here’s the first one, here’s part two, part three, part four, and part five.
1. Know that throughout human history, 80% of women had children, but only 40% of men did.
In our modern world where it seems that everyone is having sex, we forget that through most of human history some men were having a lot of sex and some men weren’t getting any. For example, Genghis Khan, the fearsome Mongol warrior of the 13th century, may have done more than rule the largest empire in the world.
According to recent genetic studies, he populated it as well. An international group of geneticists studying Y-chromosome data have found that nearly 8 percent of the men living in the region of the former Mongol empire carry Y-chromosomes that were likely passed on by Khan and his descendants.[1]
Imagine for a moment being an average man living during that time. You might have been killed by Genghis Khan’s army or you might have been afraid to have sex with any pretty woman because Genghis…
