> I do concede, though, that I was overly facetious in describing what men do as "actual stuff".
1. It's not funny. 2. People actually believe that (even if you don't). 3. That's the problem!
1. It's not funny. 2. People actually believe that (even if you don't). 3. That's the problem!
Still, men and women are under greatly different selection pressures. Men place a greater emphasis on appearance when choosing their mates, women place a greater emphasis on power and status.
Perhaps this is because traditionally-female skills are such that there's not a great deal of benefit in being especially good at them. A man gains a small benefit from having as a wife the best basket-weaver in the tribe, but a woman and her children gain a huge benefit from having as a husband the tribe's chief or its best hunter.