Intersectionality and the Disposable Male

Intersectionality seems to be concerned mostly with the additive effects of multiple sources of discrimination upon an individual. A basic example would be a woman suffering the effects of gender discrimination in the workplace, and then the fact that she is African-American then layering on additional challenges of racial bias.

There is an interesting case in intersectionality that I don't think gets any real analysis. If intersectionality is such a straightforward additive effect, what explains the plight of the African American male? By statistics, an African American male is more likely to be jailed, murdered, or multiple other statistical tragedies befall them than an African American female.

To explain this I believe requires accepting some aspects of the Theory of the Disposable Male. This creates an amusing political crossbreed, since Intersectionality can be ch.aracterized as an academic underpinning of far-left "woke culture", while Disposable Males is much more accepted by far-right circles such as incels.

But it is my belief that to understand the effects of racism on African American males, especially young ones, it is important to understand how intersectionality layers the core racial bias of America with a critical gender bias that comes from the Disposable Male theory: the lack of value of young males, and the fact that black young males are FURTHER devalued by society.

The Disposable Male theory basically states that because males in nature (across species) can procreate with multiple females while females cannot procreate as widely because they almost always must carry offspring to term. Economy, biology, physics, and game theory then leads to a situation where men fight for "breeding supremacy" by various means to procreate with females, and this leads to a feedback loop in terms of natural selection and species courtship.

Very roughly, what is observed is that 70% of females will procreate, but 30% of males do not. The theory is interesting because it seemingly helps explain dominance hierarchies, competition for resource domination by men, violence, territorialism, risk taking, and many other aspects of stereotypically  male behaviors observed in nature..... and possibly in humans.

While social statistics do not show the same ratios of success in procreation, research has hinted that in our formative evolutionary period such ratios were present, and therefore instinctual psychology will reflect it even if monogamy and other cultural mores have tempered the expression of the ratio. Certainly behaviors for resource domination, hierarchy formation, status achievement, and mate selection on the basis of those by females is observed in America.

The interesting aspects of intersectionality and the disposable male come in to possibly explain the black male's plight. Theoretically with "one less bias source" of being only black, they should be generally succeeeding in the open marketplace better than African American females. However the opposite seems true based on extreme incarceration and murder risk.

If one views the results of the "ordering" of males by status and viability per the ratios of the disposable male, where being black is a near-instant demotion from possibly being in the top 30% of males to a far higher likelihood of being psychologically profiled into the "bottom 70%", then all of an additional intersectional class of bias emerges for black males:

1) they are black

2) they are inherently disposable because they are black

While that may seem tautological, what the disposable male theory says with sufficient racial bias is that being male switches from what is perceived to be as a benefit in overall society, IS ACTUALLY A DETRIMENT. Black males are marked by society BY DEFAULT as among the disposable class.

There is a third aspect to how Disposable Male theory produces yet another intersectional impact to black men: young black males.

It is important to understand that the Disposable Male theory also dictates a unique gender bias of the black man. In humans, the Disposable Male theory generally applies to status and resource dominance. These dominances aren't done via physical bullying or fights... they are accumulated through economic success. Males accumulate wealth over time, so it explains how older males gain "attractiveness" over time. That is directly explained by the Disposable Male theory.

But that implies that young males start out "down the ladder" of ranking, and remember that in Disposable Male psychology, ONLY 30% or less of males "succeed". So any detriment to initial ranking is palpable and almost frightening.

So a young black male will suffer three intersectional biases: Being black, being disposable BECAUSE you are black, and being disposable BECAUSE you are young.

This means that behaviors that are associate with males who sense that they are in the "disposable range" psychologically become even further motivated, since especially the traditional routes to status, the wealth-based ones, are not available.

The basic strategy of a male that senses biologically that they are of insufficient status is to make risky choices to attain status, resources, or influence. So a black male then will tend to side with risky life strategies, since they are denied by society more reliably / safer routes.

Youth is where support of family, valuing education and academics, and providing direction are critical to avoiding paths in life that lead to bad outcomes. Because while the Disposable Male psychology is strong, the fact of modern life is that if a male gets a decent education and works hard, even in our noxious class structure of America, a livable life can be achieved and "success" in the sense of procreation and raising kids, is very achievable. With the right community and family values.

So the third intersectional bias of Disposable Males, bias against the young, comes at the precise moment (high schooling) that leads to ultra-risky behaviors and "dreams", instinctively drawing them from more prosaic paths and lacking structure to counteract these strong instinctual influences:

- financial and local hierarchy status: drug gang membership and activity

- pro sports and physical fitness (an EXTREMELY selective and hard path to success)

- arts, performance, and other entertainment careers (likely as difficult or worse than pro sports)

I do not want to say that ALL black males are doomed to such failure, or wallow too much in stereotypes of young males. However the numerous cultural examples and higher status granted "heros" in these categories in black subcultures compared to others does seem quite apparent, and I do not think it is solely because of limited mainstream economic opportunity by black males.

Young black females generally do not have this third intersectional bias: at the maximum heights of their biological fertility and appeal to men, they actually have an advantage in terms of social value.

Economic access and educational opportunity and other difficult, politically chaotic, generationally spanning investments that afford black males avenues to status and "success" remains what is necessary to help alleviate the plight of minorities in general and black males in particular, but I believe the theory of Disposable Males is critical to understanding the influences and motivations of Black Men and the intersectional biases that emerge to compound their situations the most.

I apologize if anything I wrote implies that these are biological inevitabilites, or any sort of inherent racial inferiority. Instead I am trying to argue that a possible biological universality biological compounded with our current cultural structure explains a great deal of both actual difficulties, and perceptions of possibilities, that African American Males, and young ones at that, face in America.