week 5- response

Danielle- That is very interesting to think about. I think that with animals that is just how things are. With elephants it is the female who is the head of the family but with lions it is the male who usually takes that role. It is very natural for them and you would think that there would be fights for the head of the family between the males and females but there is not. It is just accepted as their way of life. But with humans it is much more difficult to say which sex should be head of the family. For animals it is just based on survival, but for us we have a lot that factors into it. For example, the lion pride is not arguing over who should make the decisions by who makes the most money. It is their survival instinct but for humans there is much more too it. I think it is an interesting point to consider because maybe we make it more complicated than it needs to be!