Female subordination: Difference between revisions

Women's '''subordination''' and '''submission''', i.e. willingness to be subordinated can be observed across cultures and history. Anthropologist Eibl-Eibesfeldt suggested the tendency for women to submit to dominant men may a remnant of ancient adaptations in which pair formation only succeeds when the male is able to dominate his partner which can be observed in many reptiles, birds, and mammals, and in case of which the female submits herself to the dominant male.<ref>Eibl-Eibesfeldt I. 1989. ''Pair Formation, Courtship, Sexual Love.'' In: ''Human Ethology.'' Rougtledge. [[https://books.google.com/books?id=-CExDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PT6&ots=KctjD7Zprm&dq=Pair%20Formation%2C%20Courtship%2C%20Sexual%20Love&pg=PT335#v=onepage&q=Pair%20Formation,%20Courtship,%20Sexual%20Love&f=false Excerpt]]</ref> An alternative or additional explanation is that men do not want to waste their resources on another man's offspring, so they have a strong preference for exclusive sexual access to their woman as a measure to avoid being [[cuckoldry|cuckolded]]. Not just men have this preference, but entire families that may invest their family wealth in the offspring as well, and were often usually heavily involved in partner choices. This should imply women have been selected to be obedient, agreeable, childlike and weak, i.e. easily controllable like a child.