Comments by "Seven Proxies" (@sevenproxies4255) on "The Truth About Gender" video.
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Alexander M: Actually, women hunted too during the stone age.
Hunting doesn't require male gender when tools and weapons are involved.
In fact, playing soccer at professional levels is a lot harder (and damn near impossible for women) than being a successful hunter using stone age tools. The soccer player has to rely on their body's physical fitness completely, and even with a handicap (since soccer doesn't permit the usage of hands), which gives men a very significant advantage.
Hunting with spears, bows and arrows and traps on the other hand requires more in clever tool usage, tactics and knowledge of prey behaviour, tracking etc. Skills that can all be taught and aren't as reliant on physical fitness as soccer, even though physical fitness will certainly make hunting more pleasant since it sometimes require you to walk very long distances.
And before anyone bring up these primitive tribes today that "run down gazelles" and stuff like that and use it as definitive evidence that hunting requires you to be at peak physical performance, i'll just say this:
There's a reason why these tribes still live like cavemen in the modern world while we, descendants of smarter stone age tribes ride cars, airplanes and have agriculture to supply us with food.
These tribes spending their time idealizing running down gazelles aren"t very smart. They're not hunting very intelligently with the tools and technological levels available to them.
Remember, hunting is first and foremost about getting food. Why do we need food? Because we need to refill on nutrients as we expend energy.
The best hunters don't do shit like expending vast amounts of energy trying to run down prey. The best hunters (and this is true even in other animal species) are the ones spending the LEAST amounts of energy to catch their prey.
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