After five million years, human males have evolved to be extraordinarily good at stalking and hunting. These are traits that have become almost second nature to men. So why is that a problem for gender activists? Well, it’s actually been a problem for others, for centuries – especially the church.

As primate masculine humanoids, we are probably about 2 – 5 million years old. Most of that time, we crawled, climbed, and knuckle-walked, pursuing large game. The hunt improved as we pursued more dangerous prey, refining our skills and increasing our cunning. According to scientists and anthropologists, 99% of our time was spent pursuing and killing, developing more effective weapons and smarter communication along the way. From stone and spear to knife and bow, we stepped out of the prehistoric on a certain day and moved into history.

What is most remarkable is that 99% of who we are physically is our primate past. Who we are in history is really only 1% of our existence as a species, but what we know from biology and physical anthropology tells us much more about how we operate. Still, the achievements in technology and society over the last 2 – 5 millennia is incredible too. But it is our powerful drive as males to track, lure, snare, and devour that is deep within our physiological-psychological makeup. This view may sound disturbing for social constructionists, but such impulses were used over hundreds of thousands of years to sustain our species and survive in harsh environments. There is probably no way to square social constructionism with biology. In fact, most social constructionists deny biology or act as if it were shaped by culture. Here are two examples involving the brain.

Somewhat correctly, social constructionists argue that the brain is an amazingly plastic organ. But they go further and argue that an individual’s brain is entirely shaped by learning and sharpened by one’s environment – hence constructed socially. The problem here is that if the brain functions as a blank tablet (tabula rasa), how does it develop during the fetal stage without social input? Furthermore, how does it act involuntarily after birth (as we know it does)? Although the upper cortex of the brain is malleable, the entire brain is more than the grey matter or neocortex. The brain also consists of various other older evolutionary parts which are actively participating all the time, such as the limbic system and the reptilian brain.

Social constructionists may look at brain trauma studies for explaining their flawed theory. They will argue that the brain can be injured by what humans do to each other, such as in full contact sports or in war, so that it results in PTSD and radically affects the sufferer’s life. It is true that the brain of the PTSD victim will be forever changed, and almost impossible to change back. But that’s because the social can make no difference except perhaps in not triggering it. Brain science actually shows us that most changes are mainly due to the brain’s own wiring and way of coping – so that it is the brain itself operating in a self-protective way because of negative environmental input. Because brain injuries such as trauma are hard to repair, even with medicine, social constructionism can provide no cure here. It is much easier to fix an amputated leg with a prosthetic than to create a social cure for the brain injured by blunt trauma.

Returning to the main point, it is clear that our past 2 – 5 million years are all wrapped up in our bodies, especially in our brains. To think that our primate hunting and stalking impulses would be turned off simply by learning a church catechism or becoming civilized or being indoctrinated into a feminist ideology is naive at best. What we can do, however, is be honest and own up to our evolutionary history, accept our animal impulses, and then do our best to shape them into productive behaviors today. But like a religion, the ideology of feminism will never recognize our masculine biology as an essential part of who we are. And yet, ironically, the ideologies of church and feminism have also developed as strategies along our evolutionary path, empowering females and children with social justice tactics such as denying reality and guilt tripping men. Social justice is non-masculinity’s evolutionary tool for controlling masculinity.