Actually it might be, that philosophy is based on the principle of male expendability. Historically, the success of a civilisation was correlated with its population size, those civilisations with larger populations were better equipped for exploring and conquering. The rate at which a population can grow is proportional to the number of women. A woman can only have a very limited number of children in her lifetime. In contrast, a man can spread his seed around and theoretically father thousands of children. Thus, to build up a population, you need a lot of wombs but only a few penises are required for fertilization. Therefore, on a societal scale, it is less of a loss to lose a man than to lose a woman i.e. a woman has more value to society than a man. This is why it is men who are sent off to explore unknown lands, sent off to fight and die in wars, disproportionately do the dangerous jobs in society, because a civilisation can afford to lose men more than it can afford to lose women.
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. Oh I beg your pardon then, we should seek other seats so that your daughter can lie down on three of them?
