Mannish women are often treated as one of the boys from a young age. they grow up doing more male things and their femininity is benched because they don’t ‘look the part’ and so gravitate to what they experience. In their case, it’s being more dude than dudette.
Think about it broadly. Guys that are 4 ft. 10 and 85 pounds soaking wet do not often play basketball or work in the Canadian north west as lumberjacks. They gravitate to what works for them. Guys with sausage fingers aren’t often accomplished pianists or flamenco guitarists.
Now to be sure there are exceptions all the way around. Some mannish women embrace being female and are married with kids. I have known a couple relatively small lumberjacks. Some sausage handed guitarists have played on some of history’s greatest hits.
But overall, people move into familiar/comfortable categories/jobs/activities and physical attributes are a part of that.
“I have known a couple relatively small lumberjacks.”
Interestingly to me there was a documentary on the “old time” lumberjacks on TV which I have watched twice. This was about the guys who cut the really big timber back before the day of the chain saw. According to the report the “Paul Bunyan” type guy was very rare! They said there was occasionally someone who was six three and two thirty or bigger but most were around five seven and a hundred and fifty five pounds but these guys consumed on average SEVEN THOUSAND OR MORE CALORIES PER DAY. Sunday was their only day off and they sometimes would fight on Sunday to burn off their “excess energy”. I can tell anyone from experience on the farm growing up that if you spend the day swinging an axe and or pulling one end of a two man saw you WILL consume huge amounts of food or starve. I could easily eat as much in one meal then as I eat all day now.