Ash’s map

fascinating concept

Stumbled across this as linked from Tyler Cowen’s blog. It compares and aligns, with cogent if difficult to empirically prove arguments, the rising number of women in different arenas and the corresponding tide of wokeness.\

Of note, it was written by a woman.

As the author writes,

The explanatory power of this simple thesis was incredible. It really did unlock the secrets of the era we are living in. Wokeness is not a new ideology, an outgrowth of Marxism, or a result of post-Obama disillusionment. It is simply feminine patterns of behavior applied to institutions where women were few in number until recently. How did I not see it before?

I would have to agree. When I wrote about vibes versus policy in the November election, I had never contemplated how that may have had an impact.
This feels like what many would call sexism on first glance, but if one has spent any time with groups of solely males or solely females, the dynamics immediately become apparent. It is not sexist to note those differences and similarities showing up in our culture.

She [Joyce Benson] theorizes that men developed group dynamics optimized for war, while women developed group dynamics optimized for protecting their offspring. These habits, formed in the mists of prehistory, explain why experimenters in a modern psychology lab, in a study that Benenson cites, observed that a group of men given a task will “jockey for talking time, disagree loudly,” and then “cheerfully relay a solution to the experimenter.” A group of women given the same task will “politely inquire about one another’s personal backgrounds and relationships … accompanied by much eye contact, smiling, and turn-taking,” and pay “little attention to the task that the experimenter presented.”

The point of war is to settle disputes between two tribes, but it works only if peace is restored after the dispute is settled. Men therefore developed methods for reconciling with opponents and learning to live in peace with people they were fighting yesterday. Females, even in primate species, are slower to reconcile than males. That is because women’s conflicts were traditionally within the tribe over scarce resources, to be resolved not by open conflict but by covert competition with rivals, with no clear terminus.