“ITS YOUR BODY BUT THIS IS MY POLITY Just as women say ‘it’s my body’ men need t

“ITS YOUR BODY BUT THIS IS MY POLITY

Just as women say ‘it’s my body’ men need to say ‘it’s my polity’. Because that’s the end of the story right there. Reproductively, that’s the story in a nutshell.

So men make women a deal: it’s your body, and children are yours, only as long politics and war are ours. Because it is that compromise (trade) that makes possible the differences in our reproductive strategies. The alternative is that it’s not your body and it’s still our polity. Because in the end, only men choose.