Why Women Don't Band Together Like Men Do

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Why do you think it is that women don't seem to band together against an outgroup foe in the same way that men do? It's an interesting question. One possibility and perhaps the most, I'll believe that cultural variation is responsible for, you know, like human nature. If you show me a tribe in which women band together to capture men as husbands; there's literally no example in the human record of women ever doing that. There's another story from the anthropologist, Napoleon, Shagnon, his last name was C-H-A-G-N-O-N. He talks about how he would spend time with the Yanawama in South America.

Rob Henderson is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge and a US Air Force Veteran.

Men fight. Sometimes they look silly when they fight. But they also collaborate and team up to take on common enemies. Women fight in very different ways that are less obvious, but no less vicious, and they sometimes try to even scupper their own teammates.

Expect to learn how men's judgements of formidability are better at predicting future sexual partners than women's judgements of attractiveness, why male intrasexual competition is so much more obvious, my theory around why men hate to hear that women like dad bods, why there are rules in a "no rules" street fight, what happens if you get kidnapped by an Amazonian tribe and much more...

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