He has fought long and hard to monopolize exactly that spot. It is their fault, because they have been choosing to allow the victors of battles to win their hearts for thousands of generations. Seen from this eugenic perspective, males are a sort of genetic test bed, a sieve through which the genes of the species are passed in every generation, with only the best being selected. So, far from railing against the fact that men fight, take risks, die young, and treat women as property, women should apologize for it. The reason men are that way is most likely that women have bred them that way, gradually and imperceptibly over many generations, by choosing macho men as fathers for their sons.
Human males stand somewhere in the middle of the boorishness spectrum.
They share many of the aggressive tendencies of their fellow male primates, but they also are intimately involved in child rearing in a way that male chimpanzees and gorillas are not. A more accurate description, however, may be to say that human males combine both extremes. Again, that is the fault of females. Many seemingly monogamous birds, for example, try to have their beefcake and eat it too. This is uncomfortably close to home.