Society Sucks for Women Continued

I was thinking about the thing I wrote about women and society.

If competition for power was based on physical force then men would
win. We're physically stronger. Nanny nanny boo boo. But we don't compete
any more based on physical force. Aw crap.

And women, while they are making progress, still complain that achieving
power isn't as easy for them.

Hypothesis: women don't achieve power as readily as men because even though
we don't compete based on physical strength any more, all people still
respond to the signals of implied physical strength that communicated power
in ages of old.

These days all of us, men and women alike, want to have an even playing
field but our darn Jungiuan collective unconscious makes us respond to the
artifacts of an age gone by.

Examples include deep voice, wide shoulders, bushy eyebrows, physical
height,
crotch bulge, hairy chest, etc. When we see these things, whether we're a
man viewing a woman or a woman viewing a man, we respond to the implied
threat of physical strength. How this affect each person is different. The
effect on some is small and on others is large. I'd suspect that there's a
gender bias here too... that women are more affected by it.

The nice thing about this hypothesis is that it doesn't put blame on the
conscious male in society. We're not actively trying to keep women down.
It's just how things were in the past and how all of us are wired. A woman
who's intimidated isn't going to intellectually argue (the means to power in
new society) as well as a woman who isn't intimidated. There's an internal
barrier.

And the barrier applies equally to men as to women. It's just that men
generally have more of the power signals at their disposal naturally.

Changes we should make to society based on this hypothesis? None. You'd be
a
damn fool to change anything based on my analysis of the situation.

That said, it's tough to translate a hypothesis like this into action. In
general we see creating rules in society as a penalty for bad behavior. If
we make rules that help women succeed men will believe that they did
something wrong. But men didn't. And at the same time creating such rules
would immediately single women out as being less powerful and in need of a
handicap.

These are issues of ego. If this hypothesis were proven men and women would
be able to acknowledge that the response to power signals is there and that
rules in society to reshape those responses can help.

But that won't happen. Ego is too prevalent in our world.

Again... flame away. I know I'm missing something massive here.