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[–]catoborosnonbinary 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Appetite for risk seems to be the key factor, and this is sexually dimorphic on average. Everything from average speed of Uber drivers to psychological tests of reactions to smears on towelling. While there is great individual variation, females seem to favour survival (low-risk strategy) while males favour status and are willing to take life-threatening risks to get it. Select for the top extreme in any field and it is full of successful risk-taking males. The unsuccessful risk-taking males are dead or in prison, for the same reason. Pure evolutionary biology: females have to survive to have offspring, whereas males do not.

[–]Juniperius 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Mothers of crawling infants (~ 6 months of age) overestimate how good their boy babies are likely to be at crawling, and underestimate how good their girl babies are likely to be. When the baby approaches a ramp in experiments, the mother encourages the boy baby to go ahead and risk crawling down it, and holds the girl baby back, saying oh, be careful. This certainly affects likelihood of risk-taking throughout life.

[–]adungitit 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Taking risks is easy when you're not punished at every single opportunity for doing it, and told you're incompetent by virtue of being a certain sex. Favouring status is easy when you can actually get it, instead of the highest position you're given being looking sexually attractive for the opposite sex.

I am not surprised these pressures are ignored by someone claiming to be "nonbinary". Let me guess, male?