The world of male and female is not a simple one. Especially in human, when the biological evolution has made human in such an advanced state that sex is no longer simply to copulate and populate. And in it complexity also that the male species of human is bigger than the female, suggesting that male is the stronger half.
It ain't always so in the animal world. For the sake of ensuring the continuity of the species, thru population, some males serves the only purpose of making sure that reproductive process is running. I just read in NatGeo Feb04 edition that a kind of seaworm devouring whale fall first found to be all female. Where were the males? They were eventually found living inside the female tube, living on the female' eggyolk, giving sperm. They'd die when they run out of yolk.
Female praying mantis devours its mate after copulation, and keeps him for her meal during pregnancy.
The black widow is operating about the same way: keeping the male as snack she munches along.
Angler fish, the monstrous angler fish (just in case you wonder how an angler fish looks like, watch Finding Nemo. It's that scary, long-teeth fish Nemo and Dori find at the bottom of the sea when it's dark and they saw this beautiful light), its male is so small and soon perishes leaving only testacles attached to the female.
But oh how things are so different in the human world. Sets of rules, mores, concensus, have made male the stronger and more powerful half. But reproductively speaking, are they?
(to be continued)
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