Today’s edition of the journal “Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society” (no, I’d never heard of it before today either) reveals that male sex drive is the root cause of most of the world’s violence from football to wars. Really? I wonder how much the scientists behind this story were paid for stating the bl**ding obvious!

Evidently, the report continues, men are shaped by evolution to be aggressive to “outsiders”. Well, of course they are. Traditionally, man has always been the hunter-gatherer whilst woman has always been the homemaker and family carer – no matter what shaven-headed feminists might say to the contrary. Since the days of the cavemen the male of the species has always defended the home or settlement against outsiders and has always dealt with intruders and rivals in an aggressive manner. Through time this developed on to a tribal and national level and any cursory glance at the history books of any nation in the world will show centuries of male-led and executed violence from the Greeks to Genghis Khan and from the Romans to the Nazis. It’s what men do, unfortunately.

The report, again stating the obvious, concludes that women tend to resolve their conflicts peacefully, although on second thoughts, when I consider my time as a divorce lawyer,  perhaps it isn’t quite so obvious after all! Women are  evidently programmed  “to protect and befriend” their offspring and this certainly makes sense.

Women have much to teach us men (with the clear exceptions of parking and reversing!) and maybe if there were more women in positions of power throughout the world it would be a safer place. I’m sure that there would be fewer wars. I can’t imagine that many mothers would willingly risk the lives of their sons by sending them off to battle, can you?