Testosterone has had its day. It’s time for the next step in social evolution. Our world will be better off with women in charge

I have spent my life as an observer.  And as a history buff.  

My older sister, who excelled at everything, was incessantly angry with me for being born a boy. At first, this confused me. Yet everything was easier for me. I did have privileges and opportunities baked-in that she did not. I began, vaguely, to understand her anger and frustration.

And speaking of baked-in, I took a women’s sex roles course in college and discovered, to my utter surprise and chagrin, that even women are prejudiced against women.

Socialization is a powerful force and misogyny is much like antisemitism … the reasons for it are long past yet it just keeps on coming.

Now I find that there are actually people who are trying to argue that women’s right to vote should be taken away! Au contraire, I say, it is testosterone that, along with religion, has been the root cause of most of human society’s woes.  There is much evidence that the lowering of testosterone levels finally allowed civilization to develop.

So I say it is time for the next step in the evolution of civilization. Let’s reduce the factor of testosterone again. Women have been making steady inroads into the management of human affairs, but there are still too few in charge. There are too few in elected positions and too few running our business and corporate affairs.

As in all humans, there will always be despicable women. All of us can name one immediately. Yet females have proven they are easily as intelligent as males, and then add in the factor that they have been the peacemakers in nearly all our affairs. They have had to survive and negotiate the trials of testosterone throughout history. Being bigger and stronger is no longer a factor in human affairs.

Testosterone has had its day. Our world today is as ruinous as it’s ever been.

Vote for women.  Look to women to finally make a better world.

Van Carter of Sioux Falls is a retired broadcast journalist and environmentalist who published a green website for 15 years.

Photo:  Women celebrating Women’s Suffrage Day, public domain, wikimedia commons

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