Sub-concious Inferiority Complex

Here is another part of my "evolution of sexism" theory. This part is pretty hypothetical, and just the result of what I know about young childhoodand psychology.

Young boys develop a jealousy of their mothers, to some extent, and of girls. They do this before they can consciously understand the jealousy. Males claim that they wouldn’t want to give birth, but really, men’s contribution to life is hard to understand, especially at an early stage of life. Our own species didn't understand it until relatively recently.

I remember, as a young child, simulating birth with my mother, hiding under her shirt, then coming out. I cannot imagine that little boys didn’t do something similar, and I cannot imagine that it doesn’t have an effect on young male brains to know that they will never, ever be able to create life in the same way.

So the unconscious mind developed a slight jealousy, as it often does, and started postulating about how men were better than women in order to make up for what seemed like a disparity. As young men developed consciousness, they forgot the root of the presumptions, but still held on to them, and then projected them onto the women and girls around them.

It would be hard to convince me that this doesn't actually happen, since it makes sense and I'm not sure how one would create an experiement to disprove this hypothesis. I mean, we've had the experiment happening all around us for millenia, and this just seems to be the result. So maybe it isn't so much a hypothesis as an interpretation. But there are definitely other, perhaps stronger factors at play in sexism, the strongest of which being the insecurity with paternity.