The eyes have it: Men do see things differently to women
The way that the visual centers of men and women’s brains works is different, finds new research published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Biology of Sex Differences. Men have greater sensitivity to fine detail and rapidly moving stimuli, but women are better at discriminating between colors.
I am not trying to nitpick you here but I actually think this is a really important assumption to examine precisely because it is a very popular association (forming an unquestionable triangle of “hunting” “war” and “masculinity”) that we treat as unquestionable common sense.
From my very limited experience with hunting it is nothing like fighting? The entire mindset, physical approach and experience of hunting is almost the polar opposite to fighting other humans, I think one of the only really compelling similarities between “hunting” and “fighting” is that they both involve violence, but the mindset of a fighter is one where the focus is ON fighting where the mindset of a hunter is on the wholistic process of hunting, killing and processing an animal so nothing is wasted and so the landscape from which the hunter takes is not irrevocably harmed.
The kinds of things that occupy the mind of a hunter are maybe much closer to a polar opposite to most of the mindset and pyschology of fighting and war than we assume superficially. Hunting is a participation in an ecosystem which requires a nuanced deep view based in empathy and practiced understanding, fighting is just about hurting people and being more violent than the other person. It isnt about understanding and sustainably harvesting, it is about eliminating another.
Just because they both involve weapons doesnt actually mean they have much if anything in common in my opinion.