[Aaron]

If men are typically more aggressive and violent than women, do we have too many men?

Would women step in and fill the violence vacuum if there were less men?

As the world's population continues to become more heavily populated with women, will violence decrease?

How many men are required to preserve genetic diversity in the population?

10:1 100:1 1000:1 ?

[skiwi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Aaron', 'H')ow many men are required to preserve genetic diversity in the population?

10:1 100:1 1000:1 ?

[Sencha]

It doesn't matter whether you are a man or a woman, you are a human. Human beings are destructive, wasteful, plan for the short-term and impulsive. We all give into our instincts at some point. I have no doubt, that if there were more women, the violence vacuum would be filled.

Case in point, I had to do a report on the social trends of violence once. The statistics I researched showed that violent women and women gangs were on the rise. I probably couldn't find the source since it was awhile ago, but it proves it can be done.

I'm not going to denounce men and glorify women, not going to say women would achieve world peace or eliminate violent crimes. I'm too misanthropic for that, and I'd hate to think of myself as any less of a person on the virtue of my gender. While it may be true that men could be proved to be more prone to violence, I'm sure they represent a razor thin propotion of the total male population.

Additionally, violent tendencies may not be due exclusively to sex. Our culture markets violence on a daily basis, reinforces men in aggressive roles and glorifies brute force as the solution to our problems. Note that recently, it has become popular to portray women as strong, independent and every bit as violent as men. Culture is becoming saturated with such role models. Examples:

Lara Croft, Charlie's Angels, Kill Bill, Terminator 3 and the latest King Arthur film (as in the psychotic, adrenaline crazed Guinevere) just to name a few. Granted, these are all low brow, bread & circus crapathons, but you can bet the proles have alot to take away from this.

So, it seems that the ever present and influential mass culture is supporting the idea of physically aggressive women. I don't think this can be underestimated. If nature does not turn more women violent you can bet that society can.

[Sencha]

Correction: Kill Bill was the best movie. Ever.

[marek]

I agree with Sencha. Shouldn't we simply ask if there are TOO MANY PEOPLE on this planet? Whether they're men or women is irrelevant. From my experience, the proportion of aggressive to peaceful men and women is roughly the same. OK, so I have a small sample and am committing a Type I error at a 5% significance level.

[Guest]

I'm a man, but let's not kid ourselves with mixing up Hollywood movies and reality. I'm willing to bet 95%+ of violent crime is committed by men. How many genocides and wars have been started by women? It's true that men tend to be the ones running everything, so of course they get credit for the bad and the good, but I have a feeling there would be a lot less misery in the world if the majority of world leaders were women.

[uNkNowN ElEmEnt]

Its like comparing apples and oranges. Men and women have different styles. men talk themelves into a rage, women repress the anger. men have a lower threshold for initiating physical acts of aggression, women are more passive aggressive. but either will be horrificaly violent when they feel threatened or pushed into a corner. people who are more prove to physical acts have a male confrontation style. those who seem to just go postal one day have a female style.

Rats are a very good species to look at when wondering what over crowding is doing to us. they are very social animals with defined roles and heirarchies. when crowded the violence naturally escalates, roles are threatened and constantly redefined. when there is an unbalanced number of males to females the problems increase exponentially. we're just different, but women have no less capacity to violence. men are just trained earlier, some women are never forced to or learn to be violent.

[Itch]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'H')ow many men are required to preserve genetic diversity in the population?

[BabyPeanut]

Baby Peanut supports free sex change operations for men.
That'll fix everything!

[mindfarkk]

i can only speak of what i see of americans. i think men are more prone to physical violence. but women are very passive aggressive. so in terms of pure aggression i don't know. i do think some of that is cultural, and some of it is probably hormonal. however, i'm pretty aggressive, and i'm female, and i don't have a particularly high testosterone level for a female, especially considering it would have to be elevated at least ten times to even equal the average male testosterone level, and i'd be growing things and losing hair in places we don't want to think about. so ultimately i don't see aggression or violence as purely biological. another thing is that women by and large lack the upper body strength to compete with men. granted SOME women could kick a lot of ass, but as a group, we average much lower muscle mass, even when we try to max out our muscle, so *all other things being equal*, as a group we are physically outclassed. which is why a lot of female BB end up using steroids to bulk up. so possibly women have just learned to cope differently to stay alive.

i can tell you even without body building that i'm mentally tougher and more assertive than most of the men i meet, and i have anger management issues meaning i've been known to get out of my car and get up in some guy's face, not always wisely. i'm better now though

[smiley]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'H')ow many genocides and wars have been started by women? It's true that men tend to be the ones running everything, so of course they get credit for the bad and the good, but I have a feeling there would be a lot less misery in the world if the majority of world leaders were women.

[Sencha]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'H')ow many genocides and wars have been started by women? It's true that men tend to be the ones running everything, so of course they get credit for the bad and the good, but I have a feeling there would be a lot less misery in the world if the majority of world leaders were women.

[jesus_of_suburbia_old]

"Woman!! Whoa...man!"

Men are more aggressive and violent, but women are more manipulative and unmerciful. Two guys can beat the shit out of each other and make friends in a span of ten minutes. Women carry out their grudges and malice forever. Not only would their be conflicts and wars, but they would last much longer.

[Guest]

Women drive men to violence, that's all :D

[Concerned]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')If men are typically more aggressive and violent than women, do we have too many men?

[Itch]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'g')ranted SOME women could kick a lot of ass, but as a group, we average much lower muscle mass, even when we try to max out our muscle, so *all other things being equal*, as a group we are physically outclassed. which is why a lot of female BB end up using steroids to bulk up. so possibly women have just learned to cope differently to stay alive.

[0mar]

A gun nullifies every advantage.

I think I take pride in being more violent than the female gender.

[theshadypeach]

Have you ever read King Lear? Now those are some ruthless, bloodthirsty women.

[uNkNowN ElEmEnt]

When I was looking at which prisons to work in I had three in mind. two for men and one for women. I chose a super maximum MALE adult remand centre as opposed to working with women.

In an all out contest of agression men can be tougher. but if you are thinking about a situation where the attack is a suprise, women win hands down. men have to talk themselves into it, it comes out in their body language, you can see and sense when they are about to go postal.

not so with women. women have been trained to show submissiveness and look weak, they are very good at repressing their anger etc. there are a lot of angry women out there and you wouldn't not think it to see them.

the only equlizing factor here is among the sociopaths. male or female you wouldn't guess it. in a close range suprise attack, a gun would probably get you killed, most everything other than hand to hand combat experience would. it takes 25 feet of distance between you and the attacker for your brain to be able to process the threat before they can get to you and for you to react.

it would be better to avoid these situations entirely and travel/work/live in packs.

[Ayoob_Reloaded]

Men are much more likely to punch another man in the face over an obvious disagreement. We're also much more likely to pull violent shit in public.

Women are much more likely to abuse children and the elderly in private, or do their violence in a way that is unlikely to be discovered.

Women are also much more likely to lie about their violent behavior than are men. When I did my research on this it was pretty sad. It made sense, though.

It seems like men will commit violence on THEM, and women will commit violence on weak US. Know what I mean?