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It's difficult to answer. From my understanding, women are more sensitive towards social repercussions than men are. Which means even if men and women have an equal desire to be violent to get what they want or to derive pleasure from it, you'll always see less women than men do it on an equal playing field with noticeable catch rates and punishments.

If you give women (relative) safety to commit violence and give them the ability to do so, they end up doing so in about equal rates. If you give them less repercussions than men, they end up doing it more. Teen violence is one which is noticeably weighted "in favor" of boys. Not that difficult to understand why, when boys are taught not to hit girls, but girls aren't taught the same and face little consequence in doing so.

Not that it really matters. Truth is, both sexes are very much capable of violence, and both sexes have more than enough people willing to do so once the "benefits" outweigh the costs.



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