Why is it that men seem to exist at the most extreme ends of society?
The most likely to stand in the C-suite of a Fortune 500 company, but also, the most likely to sleep on the streets outside of it.
Men are the most likely to sit in the thrones of power, as politicians and presidents, but also, most likely to die from deaths of despair, from drug overdose, alcohol, from work, and by suicide.
They are, overrepresented at the snowy peak, but also, deep down on the ocean bed.
Yes -
As we are often told, men are the ones who commit the majority of violent crimes, but so too, men are the most likely to stand in the way of violence, to risk their life to save a stranger, or indeed, be killed themselves.
Men are the ones who set the fire, but they’re also the ones kicking down the door to drag you out of the burning building.
But why?
Is there something within en’s DNA that pushes them to these extremes of society?
And why do we only ever seem to talk about one end of such extremes?
Talk to me about ‘males at the tails’…
What do you think?
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Fortune 500 CEOS https://fortune.com/2026/06/03/how-many-women-are-fortune-500-ceos/
Violent crime https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/tables/table-42/table-42.xls
Heroic acts https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0162309596000593
Homicide convicts https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/tables/table-42/table-42.xls
Homicide victims https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/tables/table-42/table-42.xls
2026-09-18