Do I need to explain the concept?
Tom
Yes, I think that you do because I’m not at all certain what you are talking about.
Men are the pervy, rapey, violent sex.
I realize that it will take some nuance and context to understand the men are the pervy rapey people sex, of the two, but that's exactly what I am talking about.
If you don't understand that, then I am not much interested in going on with your education. I don't think you are willing to understand.
Tom
That is not true of all men and it is true of some women. In general, men tend to be taller and have more upper body strength but that is also not universally true.
Believe it or not: women also have sex drives and sometimes as strong or stronger than the average man's or her male partner's. I'm not certain what you mean by pervy but yes, plenty of women like porn, even the grosser stuff, and some women molest or even rape minors. It is less common or less commonly recognized than for men and is likely due to a mixture of biology and socialization. Same thing with violence--partly biology but also strongly socialization. And choice. We all have choices.
I just don't think things are as black and white or male/female as your response implies.
Don't be obtuse, Toni. Tom didn't say all men are pervy, rapey, and violent - and it's not at all implied by his post. It is true that men as a class have an evolved predisposition to be very copulation-focused, and as a result of this have a higher likelihood of acting on those predispositions in a way that our just-barely-a-drop-in-the-ocean developed societies disapprove of.
This isn't news, it's not even shocking. I mean, it's not female elephants out there raping rhinos. It's not female seals going at it with dead penguins.
Acknowledging that men have a significantly higher sex drive than women doesn't excuse or justify poor behavior.
Some men have significantly higher sex drives compared with women. Some women have significantly higher sex drives compared to average men or women. This is hardly universal and is likely as influenced by societal expectations as it is by the presence or lack of a Y chromosome.
Toni, do you genuinely not get the concept here, or are you being contrarian?
Of course some few women have higher sex drives than the average man, just as some few women are taller than the average man. But the reality, which should be uncontroversial, is that men have materially higher sex drives on average, and that extremely few women at all have sex drives higher than the average male sex drive.
You end up sounding like you're insinuating that men and women have the same degree of sex drive and there's no observable difference in the degree of perviness, rapiness, and violence between the sexes. It's a silly thing to latch on to, given that the prevalence of paraphilias is significantly higher in men than in women*, the rates of rape and sexual offending are significantly higher among men than women, and that the volume of violent offenses committed by men is significantly higher than those committed by women. I mean, it's not like it's just a smidge different, it's a lot different.
*Re: paraphilias, the single exception is submissiveness as a paraphilia, which is a bit higher in women than in men.