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Due to sex differences in [[Bateman's principle|parental investment]], women evolved to be passive and choosy, and men evolved to be taller and stronger than women in an evolutionary arms race among men competing for reproductive opportunities. As a result, women became dependent on men's resources.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill_(Supplemental)#Women_were_historically_predominantly_involved_in_cooking_and_they_never_dominated_men</ref>

As women bear the offspring, they can be certain their offspring is their's, different from men. As a result, men have evolved to [[paternity assurance|desire certainty about their paternity]]. Moreover, being providers of resources, men have extra incentive to minimize the chances of investing in someone else's offspring. This could explain why men preferred childish, submissive, and lower [[IQ]] women who are easier to control. Gowaty (1992) writes:

{{quote|There should be strong selection on males to control females' reproduction through direct coercive control of females […]. Evolutionary thinkers, whether informed by feminist ideas or not, are not surprised by one of the overwhelming facts of patriarchal cultures, namely that men […] seek to constrain and control the reproductive capacities of women […]. Juvenilization decreases the threat some men may feel when confronted with women; many men are comfortable around women whom they can clearly dominate and are profoundly uncomfortable around women whom they cannot so clearly dominate.<ref>https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1601&context=fchd_facpub p. 231-240</ref>}}

This selection pattern may even have reduced women's [[Scientific Blackpill (Supplemental)#Women_have_a_slightly_lower_average_IQ_which_drastically_reduces_their_intellectual_output|spatial abilities]] as men would prefer women who are scared of getting lost, rather than ones who are nimble at navigating their ways to different men. It may also explain women's stronger [[homosexuality|same-sex attraction]] as men would have preferred their [[harem]] women to derive additional sexual pleasure from each other rather than from other men.