certainmales. Females’ preferences created the GreatMale Hierarchy.
Hierarchies have many advantages. Leaders provide for the welfare of men below them. Subordinatemen
support the leaders. Every man has a job to do. Leaders make and execute decisions
quickly.
Newmen can join the hierarchy at any time-at the bottom. No time is wasted deciding who likes
or dislikes whom.
"Ego boosts"-praise and appreciation that boosts a man up the hierarchy-can be more important
than anything else.Conversely, fear of embarrassment-a fall down the hierarchy -makes soldiers risk their lives. An
insult-a shove down the hierarchy-"drives a man to distraction" or makes him ignore more important
goals.
The hierarchical model works with a dozen men, or a million men.
Men in a hierarchy have no need to put down any other man. They establish rules. The rule of
law supplants force and violence. The organization runs smoothly. Courts and justice systems
are hierarchies.
The downside of hierarchies is that high-status individuals can abuse low-status individuals.1 A
male hierarchy with thirty million members-e.g., Nazi Germany-has far more potential for abuse
than a thirty-member women’s circle.
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