'Women Armed With Favorite Weapons'

On the sexing of armaments

Tools are virtually indistinguishable from weapons in the fossil record and cross-cultural anthropology. The one pure weapon listed in the meme below is handguns, and they are only in the middle of the pack.

The very first tool that had exclusive use for interpersonal violence was the sword. When swords show up in Chalcolithic figurines, only men hold th…