How war has influenced ancient, classical and medieval societies

[Kadagar_AV]

That still doesn't explain why hazing rituals are a good thing. I find them horribly stupid and outdated.

I find men outdated and stupid.

We could just take the current male population, kill them and retract the sperm, and we would have enough for making new girls for the next umph-very-high-number-of-years.

Oooooor... We could admit that men exist, and that this is a historically as well as factually effective way to make men bond, and to sort the real deal from the mama's boys.

Logically you are right, of course. Unfortunately "logic" isn't always our strongest side, that's why we need an arse beating from time to time, to separate the ones who can from the ones who can't, in extreme situations.

Or are you proposing a world without extreme situations - nor men to handle them?