But you're a part of a group of 4 Billion. How is that a "small" group? I'm honestly not trying to be a jerk here. I'm just trying to understand your perspective.
And testosterone doesn't do most of the things that are attributed to it in popular conception. Read this excellent story for more about that.
Our tribal ancestors were very group oriented - towards the entire group - much more Trek-like than we are today. The well-being of the entire tribe was (and still is for contemporary hunter/gatherers) a primary survival strategy. They were incredibly autonomy focused and individualistic at the same time that they also focused on the well-being of the collective.
Western individualism tends to pit each person against others in competition for resources and rewards. It includes the right to accumulate property and to use wealth to control the behavior of others. In contrast, as Tim Ingold (1999) has most explicitly emphasized, hunter-gathers’ sense of autonomy connects each person to others, in a way that does not create dependencies. Their autonomy does not include the right to accumulate property, to use power or threats to control others, or to make others indebted to oneself. It does, however, allow people to make their own day-to-day and moment-to-moment decisions about their own activities, as long as they do not violate the band’s implicit and explicit rules. For example, individual hunter-gatherers are free, on any day, to join a hunting or gathering party or to stay at camp and rest, depending on their own preference. (source)
I think what you are actually describing is a modern patriarchal society - which it would be good for us all to transcend. And that's my point.
