Carole Hooven, Ph.D.

that females have not evolved the same skills to resolve conflicts so that the hierarchy can sort of be reinstated.

Males can have a pickup game on the basketball court.

It can get rough.

They can insult each other.

But by the end, they've sort of worked it out.

Maybe there's a change in the status hierarchy, but they've worked it out.

It's over.

It doesn't go on for weeks.

You don't have to talk about it endlessly.

Females do not have the same ability to resolve those kinds of complex social, what for us would be very complex social conflicts.

But there's something that feels fair about that and to sort of backstab and not give somebody the opportunity and not to be able to work it out and to gossip behind people's backs.

Yes, there's murder and rape and men are overrepresented in those horrible crimes, but we shouldn't

glorify feminine ways of interacting necessarily and try to get men to be more feminine because there's a lot of issues also with typical feminine behavior.

But we definitely do have the statistics, like 95% of murders everywhere are male and obviously sexual assault is 98% or something.

So here again, I think just like with play, people aren't going to like this.

So I want to make sure I say it clearly.

I do think that the difference, this broad pattern is similar to what we see in non-human animals where the males are much more likely to kill each other than the females.

There's many more violent or physically aggressive interactions.

If you look at both of us, we have different bodies.

You are bigger and stronger.