Our animal side

Why is it that male actors get paid more than their female counterparts? The reasons that immediately pop in are that the male actor plays a dominant role in the movie and that the general public usually prefers a male centric movie.

Ideally, the public includes both men and women, in equal proportions. This means in general both men and women want the male actor to have a more dominant role and hence the higher pay.

Hence we can either infer that the majority of the movie goers are men which, I don’t think is true or that women want the men to have an upper over them.

If we have to find out why women like to be lead, we need to look at our pre historic ancestor’s lifestyle. Both men and women hunt together. The man mates with the women and she gets pregnant. This makes her very ineffective as a hunter; hence she depends on her male counterpart for her survival. While the female is submissive to the male and needs his support, the male can survive by himself and only needs the female to mate. This way both male and female wanted the male to have a more important role in society. But as we started evolving, women started becoming more and more independent. They are no longer required to hunt and were very much capable surviving themselves.

However, though the women have evolved into being far more independent, there seems to be a lag in the evolution their preference in watching a female take the lead in a movie. It’s the women who are responsible for the lower reimbursement of the female actors as they themselves do not want to see women taking center stage. The movies seem to be catering to the inherent animalistic need of a woman to be lead, to let the man take control of her. It’s the same with sports, women and both like to see men play and hence more pay for the male sportsman compared to women.

The only abrasion to this phenomenon is in the fashion industry. Female models are paid more than their male counterparts. Again the fashion industry is still catering to our prehistoric or animalistic need of viewing a woman as a trophy. Here somehow both women and men prefer women sizzle the ramp.

It also makes me think of the male and female psychology. Going back in time again, men didn’t mind or rather preferred teaming up with other men to increase their chances of survival. A woman would not prefer the same because the presence of another woman means she will have to compete with her to get the best man to mate with her and ensure that her genes are jelled with best and thus increasing the chances of the survival of her genes in the subsequent generation. Another woman reduces her choice of men. She doesn’t need the woman for her survival in the presence of a male. This means, as we still have our animal instincts alive in us, a group of men or a group of men and one woman would make a more effective team than a group of women.

How much ever humane, we still want to keep alive the animal in us.grrrr groowlll:)