>>12464035This statement discredits the amount of strength required to properly tend to children and run the home while the males were away hunting. If anything, females would be stronger with less endurance while the males would be weaker with greater endurance. This is why, up until only the past one or two centuries, the ideal image of a woman has been voluptuous: a combination of muscle to indicate health, some fat to indicate lack of malnourishment, and child-bearing hips to indicate fertility. Even through the middle ages and renaissance, the idea of women as pretty dainty little flowers existed only in the aristocracy. In most cultures, women were responsible for most of the housework and farming while the men were away in whatever other role they had. Most of our "romantic" and "traditional" notions of the male-female relationship came from poems and plays written by and/or about members of the aristocracy, who were the only ones with the literacy and money to indulge in such things. These ideas may have been true for that small minority, but they completely discount the reality experienced by the common majority.
