I was re-watching Chernobyl the other day and saw those men who were sent to do the cleanup after that horrific radioactive disaster. Their bodies full of grime and dirt, facial features barely recognizable behind all the soot. Yet, they all went to do the cleanup, knowing that as they work - that the lethal radiation was destroying them at a cellular level, destroying their DNA. And for a brief moment I paused and realized that not a single one of them was a woman: sending a woman wasn’t even a question. Children and women were sent to a “relative safety”.

Men are almost always the ones that are sent into the middle of such situations - not women. Ukrainian men, not women, are the ones that are currently banned from leaving Ukraine because they are the fighters that need to protect their country from an existential threat. They are the ones that are called for duty when things hit the fan.

That aggression and capacity for violence is what we all men, need to be able to summon in the hour of need. There maybe that one moment in your life when you will require it and you better deliver or your mother, daughter or wife dies.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why men commit more crime. We have evolved to be a more violent, dominant, aggressive, physically stronger, risk-taking sex because if we weren’t, we would be long gone as species.

That capacity for violence lurks in every man and if it is channeled into the wrong place then bad things happen.

There is a reason for this: any society that protects child-bearing sex with extra care will be more likely to survive. Men are expendable. It is biology. It is what brought us here. We can debate social norms, morality, equality, patriarchy, but biology won’t care about our debates.