Female biological instability produces an emotional vulnerability men lack

Evidence

What is important to see is that in this meeting neither gamete takes precedence over the other: they both sacrifice their individuality; the egg absorbs the totality of their substance. There are thus two strong current biases that—at least at this basic biological level—prove false: The first one is the female’s passivity; the living spark is not enclosed within either of the two gametes. It springs forth from their meeting; the nucleus of the ovum is a vital principle perfectly symmetrical to the sperm’s. The second bias contradicts the first, which does not exclude the fact that they often coexist: the permanence of the species is guaranteed by the female since the male principle has an explosive and fleeting existence. In reality, the embryo equally perpetuates the germ cells of the father and the mother and retransmits them together to its descendants, sometimes in a male and sometimes in a female form. One might say that an androgynous germ cell survives the individual metamorphoses of the soma from generation to generation. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 85 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Female fetal development is more hormonally variable than male development; Biology refutes both the female-passivity bias and the male-effervescence bias at the gamete level — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 85; Evolution shaped male but not female psychologies for intergroup aggression (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Biology refutes both the female-passivity bias and the male-effervescence bias at the gamete level #contradicts (0.75) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 85
• Evolution shaped male but not female psychologies for intergroup aggression #contradicts (0.72)