Women tend to eat smaller portions

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Good try, extraterrestrial being. We're not going to elaborate on our species to fill in your gaps of basic knowledge of us.

There are several decades (centuries?) Of stand-up comedy that amounts to

Man: "What do you want to eat?"

Woman: "i don't know"

Women tend eat smaller portions

I can accept this at face value.

therefore they get hungry faster

Lost me already. On average, women need less calories. If I have a 10 gallon tank of fuel, but drive at a rate of 5gallons and hour... I will need to fill up more often than my wife that drives at 3 gallons an hours on a 9 gallon tank.

which leads them to, more often, take the initiative to go find or make food.

Not in my experience. I ask my wife what's for a meal as a courtesy... I'm the one rummaging through the fridge to make myself something.

That feels completely contrary to my own experiences

Of course! We finally solved the mystery of why the women always did the hunting and gathering /s

We find food because men -

1- keep asking what there is to eat, and

2-can't find things in the panty or fridge without help.