Masculinity & Truth

By Leo Gura - July 2, 2025

The masculine has advantages in pursuing truth over the feminine. This sounds sexist, but here’s why it is the case:

• The masculine cares more about abstract things than people and relationships. You’re never going to find truth in the social domain. You need to care about truth more than you care about people and relationships.
• It’s easier for the masculine to be ruthless, cold, and detached. This is critical for truth-seeking. Truth must be prioritized over feelings. Cutting through illusions and fantasies is ruthless business akin to war.
• The masculine depends less on social relations for survival. Truth-seeking requires breaking free of social survival, which is harder for the feminine to do.
• The masculine is less dominated by emotions and feelings. It is impossible to do truth-seeking if you are overly emotional and moody. High femininity is simply too moody and unstable to do serious truth-seeking. Just hormonally, the masculine is more stable than the feminine. Truth-seeking requires stability.
• The masculine needs less emotional support. You will not have emotional support when doing serious truth-seeking. The feminine is accustomed to seeking emotional support from others. This is a luxury when it comes to truth-seeking. No one is going to hold your hand through existential self-annihilation.
• The masculine is better at enduring self-inflicted suffering. Truth-seeking is self-inflicted suffering. Think of the Buddha sitting under the tree for two weeks. I’m trying to think of what woman I know who would voluntarily do this.
• The masculine has better self-discipline. Self-discipline is critical for truth-seeking.
• The masculine prefers to lead rather than follow. Leading favors truth-seeking. Following favors illusion. You are not going to follow your way into deep truth.
• The masculine is less agreeable, which is necessary to break down social conventions. Truth favors intellectual disagreeableness. Needing social approval is death to truth-seeking.
• And cultural norms reinforce all the above.
• At the risk of oversimplification, truth-seeking requires big balls. But then again, some women have more balls than some men.

There is no reason why the masculine and feminine should have equal access to truth.

None of this is to say that most men are truthful or that women cannot do truth-seeking. Overall, hardcore truth-seeking is going to align better with the masculine. And the hardcore part is important because truth is hardcore. Truth-seeking has to be hardcore because it requires self-annihilation. Feminine versions of spirituality are usually not hardcore enough to break through Maya because Maya is so powerful.

This is why — traditionally — monks, hermits, ascetics, sages, yogis, philosophers, and prophets have been men. A woman can do it, but it suits feminine women less, for the same reason that chess, computer programming, and engineering suits feminine women less. Women can serve in these roles but these roles require women to take on a masculine disposition, which most young women will not be happy with.

The point is that this issue is more than cultural, more than social construction. The biology and therefore the psychology of men and women is different. It’s not good or bad, it just is what it is. And you will find handfuls of individual exceptions.

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