# Male violence and insecurity

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-violence-and-insecurity/758517>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [June 27, 2016, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-violence-and-insecurity/758517 "2016-06-27T13:52:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-violence-and-insecurity/758517/61 "2016-07-01T12:39:41Z")

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I read the first few words of each paragraph, do you think I got all of it?

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**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-violence-and-insecurity/758517/62 "2016-07-02T11:59:10Z")

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> [@watchwolf49](#):
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> Women have more genetic material than men …

Wait, what?

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**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-violence-and-insecurity/758517/63 "2016-07-02T16:20:08Z")

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> [@GrumpyBunny](#):
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> Wait, what?

I think an X chromosome has more genes than a Y.

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**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-violence-and-insecurity/758517/64 "2016-07-02T16:20:39Z")

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> [@Guinastasia](#):
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> Well I for one am totally against male violence and insecurity.

And I’m actually for it. It’s like crazy chicks in bed, the sex is totally hotter.

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**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-violence-and-insecurity/758517/65 "2016-07-02T16:54:12Z")

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[“The origin and function of the mammalian Y chromosome and Y-borne genes – an evolving understanding”](http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bies.950170407/abstract;jsessionid=7C13293858075E97932A6B343BBDABB4.f04t02) — _BioEssays_, Vol 17 Issue 4 — April 1995 - (abstract only, the paper is behind a paywall).

[“Mammalian sex—Origin and evolution of the Y chromosome and SRY”](https://www.musc.edu/mbes-ljg/Courses/Biology%20of%20Reproduction/Paper%20pdfs/Waters%20Wallis%20Graves%202007.pdf) {PDF} — Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology 18 (2007) 389–400.

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> Of the ∼ 1100 genes on the ancestral Y (now represented by the X chromosome) only a total of 45 survive. Being confined to males, many of these evolved a function in male reproduction, and came under positive selection.

It’s not that males don’t have these genes, but they only have one copy. If something should go amiss, the man is stuck with the problem. However, the woman has two copies of these genes, any problems may have to appear on _both_ genes to manifest.

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**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-violence-and-insecurity/758517/66 "2016-07-04T11:57:14Z")

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> [@Smeghead](#):
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> Putting my “Doctorate in Biology” hat on, this is complete and total horseshit.

What exactly does a _“Doctorate in Biology”_ hat look like? I’m picturing a [propeller beanie](http://www.partycheap.com/v/vspfiles/photos/60225-2.jpg), but the propeller is a [test tube centrifuge](http://farm9.static.flickr.com/8345/8242653317_40ae04cff0_m.jpg)and the beanie is a [horseshoe crab shell](https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4144/5025881961_bd2ef94780_b.jpg).

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