May20th2021

Hey, guys, this one is for us—the Y chromosomers! Without thinking too much about it, we've traditionally come at society from a chimp perspective: violence, domination, bullying, keeping the little lady in place... That's not me complaining, merely wagging a finger—beware! All could be changing with mankind looking poised for a very big swing (read on...)
The swing I'm talking about crosses into bonobo territory, a matriarchy where sexual favours keep the peace. Oh, yeah, it sounds agreeable with advantages over the chimp mode for guys and gals both. But, wait, since it's possible a few of us haven't yet found bonobos on our map, there's an aspect that we sporting beards and bald heads should seriously consider before voting for a system where our testosterone tendancies are curtailed. Here's a cautionary exerpt from the NYTimes of Oct.9th. 2016 (almost as ancient as my Mac):—

The female bonobo apes of the Wamba forest in the Democratic Republic of Congo had just finished breakfast and were preparing for a brief nap in the treetops, bending and crisscrossing leafy branches into comfortable day beds.
But one of the females was in estrus, her rump exceptionally pink and swollen, and four males in the group were too excited to sleep. They took turns wildly swinging and jumping around the fertile female and her bunkmates, shaking the branches, appearing to display their erections and perforating the air with high-pitched screams and hoots.
Suddenly, three older, high-ranking female bonobos bolted up from below, a furious blur of black fur and swinging limbs and, together with the female in estrus, flew straight for the offending males. The males scattered. The females pursued them. Tree boughs bounced and cracked. Screams on all sides grew deafening.
Three of the males escaped, but the females cornered and grabbed the fourth one — the resident alpha male. He was healthy, muscular and about 18 pounds heavier than any of his captors. But no matter. The females bit into him as he howled and struggled to pull free. Finally, “he dropped from the tree and ran away, and he didn’t appear again for about three weeks,” said Nahoko Tokuyama, of the Primate Research Institute at Kyoto University in Japan, who witnessed the encounter.

(!) There's more, but I think we can, with hindsight (heh, heh), see the danger lurking—you know what I'm talking about A Team! However, being guys and under the thrall of our cahones, we just might fall for the bonobo mode so superficially desirable: snoozing after breakfast, no boss with dibs on all the babes, free and easy sexual congress to promote the peace...but, as seen, this bonobo mode is two-edged:—

Adult females responded to a broad range of male provocations — unwanted sexual overtures, food disputes, pushing, kicking, vocal threats, persistent pestiness — by forming coalitions of two or more females, who would then jointly take on their male tormentors.

Like I say, bro's, beverywary, for mere promises of an easier, sexier way of life, we might end up paying a heap too much—this is not the way to Mars and beyond! The proud chimp mode has (face it, ladies) served gals as well as guys for millennia and, projecting forward, shows excellent prospects.
Hmm...'Course, we could ditch 'em both—switch to Homo sapiens mode.