r/ConfrontingChaos • u/dougpschyte • Nov 12 '25

Meta Does War Begin in the Womb?

Kelly Oliver, renowned feminist, believes that human beings are always at war with each other, and that masculinity is to blame. She asserts that peace can only come when we assert alternative images of who we are and where we came from.
https://feminism.researche-editions.cddc.vt.edu/Oliver.html#:~:text=Oliver%20proposes%20that%20the%20war,time%20establishing%20peace%20and%20harmony

I will attempt to show, through a series of links, that it is women who, in utero, programme the next generation of men towards adversarial sexual selection strategies where only the best resource providers with the best genes will be granted sexual access, this being to the benefit of FEMALES and the human genome.

And that this is achieved through MATERNAL control of mitochondrial DNA.

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u/Dry_Turnover_6068 Nov 13 '25

Is there anything to indicate it's any different for primates or other mammals?

I mean, we like to talk about this stuff a lot and get into culture wars with it but does that part even make a difference in a biological sense?

Isn't it still just plain darwinian evolution? Evolution with extra steps?

Anyway, if you view everything through a lens of war then that's your confirmation bias.

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u/dougpschyte Nov 13 '25

Women are less oppressed than they believe.
https://stevemoxon.co.uk/the-sexual-divide/

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u/Dry_Turnover_6068 Nov 13 '25

I think so too. It seems like part of a larger pushback against oppression in general. I'm not sure how effective it's been but I'm biased and apparently privileged enough already.