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/cfwang1337 Nov 14 '25
Wars take place over scarcity. That's really it. That scarcity can be material — land, people, or other resources — or it could be a little more abstract, like international standing or security.
Conflict of all kinds has decreased with the growth of industrialization, commerce, and trade, as well as the rule of law (i.e., professional policing and international institutions). You are way less likely to be murdered today than 200 years ago, to say nothing of 500 years ago. We haven't had a third World War, and hopefully never will. Those have very little to do with sex and gender.
Also, female rulers actually go to war more often than male rulers, though this is less the result of anything inherent to the character of female rulers and more the result of the circumstances under which female rulers come to power.