In the animal kingdom which mirrors its human equivalent maleness comes in many forms. Some of them are total opposites of what we have been taught is "natural". For instance a male animal might be an anglerfish which are puny creatures compared to their female partners. They are not at all capable of surviving on their own which means that immediately after being hatched they find a female and fuse with her. Without the female they die, but human males may find this fusing arrangement horrendous as the male anglerfish turns from being an individual into nothing but a sperm bank after losing most of their organs. They are alive, and still not, which tempts me to compare them to the in many ways artificially made women of harems, etc., etc.: They lost their natural looks, health and freedom of movement to become nothing close to sex dolls ....
However, the male anglerfish may be seen by human men as the lucky one, compared to the male bee - the so-called "drone". These members of the cube have to share the one female who mate: The Queen bee. She may mate with 12-15 of her many suitors which is fewer than one percentage of the males who court her. That means that the main bulk of male bees don't stand a chance of mating, but I think they may live longer, as it is believed, but - as far as I can see - not proven that the "lucky" (???) ones die in the act, so to speak. However, this mating is the climax of a drone's existence, but not only does it make him lose his penis, i.e. the "endophallus", but also his life: The endophallus stays with the female bee and he drops down to the ground, to die shortly after. Both the male anglerfish and the drones as well as many/most of other animal species are potent illustrations of a biological truth that the human patriarchy has done everything in its power to hide from both men and women: Nature made the male expendable if he doesn't hold a rôle in the upbringing of the offspring. Yup, the male is for the female, not the other way around as e.g. the legend of Adam and Eve tries to lure us into believing ....
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