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No-one has any biological job. Live how you want.
Even if we had it, imagine how small your life is if you actually believe we are born to do a biological job.
I was put here to add carbon to the air and convert food into shit!
My job is to increase the entropy of the universe faster.
Imagine if we flipped the tables. If it's all on women to have and raise kids and nothing more, wouldn't that mean a man's job is to get laid/donate sperm, impregnate someone once, and that's it? If that's all there is and he's fulfilled his role, there's no need to stay alive after that. Like a male bee, exploding after mating. Why bother with society, hobbies, learning and growing? OP's "job" as a man is nothing more than to literally fuck off and die, mission complete.
Obviously I don't believe that, just taking his argument to its logical conclusion. I've heard people say that women are just for making babies so many times in my life, but I've never heard men's role put in the same terms.
It sounds ridiculous because it is ridiculous. We're all so much more than our biological equipment. I know I'm preaching to the choir here, I just had to rant for a moment.
Unfortunately they'll probably just say they are meant to be the masters of a harem and kill any potential rival males. Literally troglodyte shit
Then they should be starting a fight to the death with every man they encounter.
Best to make sure you're armed and they are not when you reveal this to them.
I like that reasoning. If I had any toxic male friends saying shit like this I might use it, thanks!
Humans are not bees, you don't rip some lazy bum's dick off as a teen, use it to birth a town of sterile slaves that provide for your every need, and keep using that same sperm for years while birthing over a million babies throughout your life.
From an evolutionary perspective you're successful if you have more children, that have reached breeding age, than the average. Humans today have a pretty good chance of survival no matter if they have both parents of not, so the only factor in that equation is how many children you can make.
So if you actually flip the tables, the man's job in the developed world is to make as many babies, and if he makes less than 3 he's a failure. And they should feel lucky because the guys in Niger/Sudan need to make like 15 or 20 (8-12 is the average).
If you want an animal metaphor instead, think of those jungle birds that spend 99% of their waking time working on breeding (bowyer fe).
And following that logic: to make more children to a wide variety of women. Men will literally learn something about every band just so they can hit up women with band merch.
It sounds ridiculous, it is ridiculous for humans, but that exact process is why we're able to choose not to breed.
Unless of course you're a biologist
I disagree.
I have a biological imperative to turn garbage food into poop.
I mean, it's a job, you can quit any time you want.
it's not a good idea to quit....