
I think the distinction that people don’t make is that…
- For a woman, sometimes you can get a man to fight for you, so it makes sense to get him to take on all that risk himself.
- For a woman, the upper body strength distribution is almost bimodal, so it makes even more sense not to fight and send a man instead if you might end up fighting a man.
- Society often treats women and their violence as harmless. (The flip side of the glass ceiling.)
So if you have a high stress situation consisting only of women, isolated from society and from men, it may well get violent.

