<story><title>Is There Anything Good About Men?</title><url>http://www.psy.fsu.edu/~baumeistertice/goodaboutmen.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chegra</author><text>Summary:
Men are both better and worst than women.  They are most at the top and also the most at the bottom.  More men in CEO position and also more men in prison.&lt;p&gt;He tied in the fact that a society needs as many womb as possible and a few penis would do the job.  Basically, saying the more people in a society the stronger it is.  With this fact men basically are expendable, thus encouraged by society to participate in high risk endeavors.  With high risk comes high reward.  Hence a few successful men at the top.&lt;p&gt;Also, he points to the fact men have lots of shallow relationship while women value intimate relationship.  But having a many shallow relationship allows men be more innovative since concepts are passed between then quicker compared to women.&lt;p&gt;Women would form small groups of intimate relationship while men will form large group.  With large group emerges synergy and the whole is greater than the sum of it&apos;s parts.  Hence, men form cultural things like religion, universities, sport teams, etc.  What comes with forming and creating them is men dominate them.  Also, the system men set up are design that only a few can be rewarded and recognized.&lt;p&gt;There wasn&apos;t no real conspiracy by men to dominate.</text></comment>
<story><title>Is There Anything Good About Men?</title><url>http://www.psy.fsu.edu/~baumeistertice/goodaboutmen.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>johnthedebs</author><text>A long, but interesting read. This line stood out as pretty interesting - I&apos;d never given this sort of thing much thought:&lt;p&gt;&quot;If a group loses half its men, the next generation can still be full-sized. But if it loses half its women, the size of the next generation will be severely curtailed. Hence most cultures keep their women out of harm’s way while using men for risky jobs.&quot;&lt;p&gt;Overall, it&apos;s a pretty objective (and in-depth) view of the gender debate.</text></comment>