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Self-perception, not analogous comparison. Part of hunting is picking the locale, picking the mark, setting the trap, then going for the kill. It's not like they put on armor and do bloody battle, as cool as that may sound...on paper. I'm simply pointing out the fundamentals of the motivation.
And I totally disagree with the men fulfilling the role. We are after something else completely. We're in it to find completion. To find purpose, justification, all that. We look for a mate that will make our lives complete in one way or another. It's a pretty self-centered hypothesis, but hey, it's what I've seen from our patterns of behavior. We seek romance to stave off loneliness, to obtain greater happiness, to reaffirm our purpose. We don't go out into the world trying to bag supermodels, the colder the better, then brag about how hard it was to get her to like you. Well, if you're looking for a trophy wife yes you are. But under normal circumstances, I think males and females work completely differently in turns of internal motivations, actual behaviors aside--the methodology is highly variable, but motivations seem to hold across cultural, age, and dispositional lines.