These are interesting thoughts, but we should be super-pooper careful when trying to apply random evopsych speculation to real world modern humans. 'testosterone messes with stress therefore sudden stochastic violence seems more likely to be male' is a wild claim based our very poor understanding of a very complex thing.

It's that kind of reasoning that backed a millenia of consensus that women are scientifically proven to be stupider, then it turned out it was all socialisation.

[–] Formerlyfarman@hexbear.net 2 points 6 days ago

Thanks, of course socialization is the most important factor.

while I admit I find Kipling's arguments plausible, and I do at some level believe that, at the end of the day he is a victorian poet, and not a rigorous scientist. The rhymes play a part at making such an argument more convincing.

I apologize for the comments of testosterone. You are of course right that it is more complex than that. And now that I think of it, it was disrespectful of me to assume other people's experience. It occurs to me that we have several people here who have been both a man and a woman, now I am curious as to wether they feel a difference in their reactions, but I'm not sure it's appropriate to ask.