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Okay I'm gonna pop off a hot take that I have no intention of defending but it has raised interesting conversation in the past:
Yes, men are in fact inferior, and I say this not because I particularly like it, but because the way masculinity manifests in mammals is through the y chromosome acting not like a legitimate whole instruction set in itself, but rather more like a "patch" or, to put it in colloquial terms, "DLC": DownLoadable Content does not work without the base game, and the y-chromosome cannot function without an x-chromosome.
An egg is fertilized XY and the Y is completely non-functional? Congratulations: this clump of cells will develop into a sapient individual whom is intersex but appears entirely feminine.
An egg is fertilized XY and the X is completely non-functional? This clump of cells will never develop into a person. At most it will be ejected as a miscarriage.
Male mammals are derivative knockoffs of the default (female) template that exist to perform dangerous functions that enhance the survivability of a population at large at the expense of individual survival and prosperity. They are hormonally predisposed to aggressively occupy, hold, and defend territory, and get killed sacrificially in conflict while the rest of the specimen's family group can either hide or escape to continue the gene line without them.
And again - I'm describing it like this NOT because I particularly like it or agree with it or think it's ideal! It kinda sucks actually. But accepting this has helped me to better recognize the pitfalls of nature and step around them. I can't even begin to list all the many BRUH MOMENTS I've avoided by realizing internally, "wait a darn minute, is this... DUDE BEHAVIOR? Eew! I don't need this conflict! I'm being argumentative for stupid illogical hormone-driven reasons, so I'm going to stop now, reassess the counter arguments because they might have been right all along, and maybe apologize before I end up going to prison for stabbing someone over a stupid verbal disagreement."
I invite any and all to wipe the floor with me using facts and evidence though, and maybe I'll learn some cool stuff along the way. But this is the hypothesis I've been running with just fine for years.
Also, fun fact, birds are kind of the opposite! They have ZZ and ZW hormones where the feminine reproductive caste is the changing variable!