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[–]Astrid2448 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

It’s partially social/cultural and partially from biology. For example, men are larger and more muscular, so traditionally they were taught to use that with things like fighting, hunting, and weaponry. Doing this made violence part of male culture and “macho” qualities. In modern times, these things have turned into teaching men to play sports and video games. Obviously, anyone can play Team Fortress, Red Dead, etc. and holding a controller has nothing to do with physical strength. The strength is the source but the video games are the construct built around the source. Make sense?

[–]Realwoman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Actually, men are larger and more muscular than women for the same reason other male animals are bigger and stronger than females - the females invest a lot of resources into making bigger gametes and in mammals, in carrying the young and nursing them, so the males are the ones that physically compete with other males for access to females. Male polar bears are bigger than female polar bears because they fight each other during mating season and the stronger one gets to mate and spread his genes. Human males are basically built to fight other males (upper body strength in humans is way more sexually dimorphic than leg strength for example), that's why they're more violent and physically aggressive than women.

Now of course, violence as part of the culture is definitely a thing and culture in general has a giant influence on humans. So I don't disagree with what you're saying.

[–]Astrid2448 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Wait... are you saying that you believe men are only stronger than the women today for cultural reasons, or are you saying females evolved to be weaker because they take care of the young?

[–]Realwoman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I don't know how to say it more clear - men are stronger than women because they evolved to fight other men. Women didn't evolve to fight men or other women, that would be a disadvantage for them evolutionary.

[–]Astrid2448 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Ok then. I’m confused on why you felt the need to go “actually” and explain that to me then. It seems pretty obvious

[–]Realwoman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh sorry, I confused you with someone else on here