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Vincent van Gogh- Cypresses, 1889

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Cypresses, Study (1843), by Gustaf Wilhelm Palm

Ardengo Soffici (Italian, 1879-1964), Cypresses, Fields and Hills, 1947. Oil on cardboard laid down on canvas, 19.9 × 15 cm.

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Men, in biological terms, are not the scarce resource.

Nature does not use men in the same way it uses women because male reproductive potential is cheap, redundant, and statistically disposable. From an evolutionary standpoint, a single male can fertilize many females; the species can afford to lose countless men without endangering continuity. But lose too many women, and the population collapses. So nature “invests” more in the female body eggs, pregnancy, lactation and protects that investment through cultural mechanisms of control. Men, by contrast, are nature’s expendable instruments, the test subjects of danger, war, and risk.

Men are used by nature differently, namely, as vectors of variation and competition. Their deaths and struggles serve the statistical purpose of filtering traits, strength, cunning, creativity, or cooperation. Male suffering doesn’t protect life directly; it trims the evolutionary tree. That’s why almost every culture channels male aggression outward into war, exploration, production to burn their surplus energy in service of the group’s stability.

So if women are used to reproduce, men are used to select. Both are exploited, but asymmetrically. Nature consumes men through danger and women through dependency. One is sacrificed at the frontiers of risk, the other in the interior of care. Both feed the same indifferent mechanism, the persistence of the species, not flourishing of the individual.

In Spinozian terms, the persistence drive of the species devours its own parts without pity. Nature is not moral; it is efficient. Both sexes are means to the same blind striving. Liberation begins not in moral outrage, but in ceasing to play roles written by an author that never cared who survived.