1547: Egalitarian Progress and Abuse Possibilities
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2025/10/15
More egalitarian societies seem to show fewer incidences of abuse.
Global society seems to be on a trajectory to more egalitarian norms.
Abuse primarily gets predicated on reasons of power.
For example, sexual misconduct more often about power than sex.
Abusive sex as outcome; power as the driver.
Women had far less power for several millennia on average.
Thus, more egalitarian societies means more power for women.
Hence, more shared power means reduced overall abuse.
Therefore, however, more equal power between women and men means higher rates of abuse by women in some circumstances, while embedded in lower overall abuse following from these trends.
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