CMV: Male behavior is driven by a driver to attract women, and our whole society functions based on an exchange of sex (or hopes of) for productivity loop. Men thinking they do things for themselves is just trait that has been selected by women.

In a way, your thinking is based on the hypothesis that the only traits that evolution selects for are those that facilitate the attraction of sexual partners. But that is not true. Notably, evolution also selects for traits that facilitate survival (which would be a first requirement in order to reproduce). Being productive can surely also be seen as a positive trait for survival. Even stuff like taking care of yourself and your body can be interpreted both ways. There are many animals for example that have sophisiticated/original mechanisms to 1) attract sexual partners, and 2) defend themselves. Although the size of a scorpion's tail and stinger may or may not have an effect on its sexual appeal, you wouldn't argue that the only purpose of the tail and stinger is to attract sexual partners... because that's basically what you are doing with humans.

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