Those are two things that can happen, but a more generalized version of that is an increased drive for exceptionalism. Men will take more risks to succeed at al

Those are two things that can happen, but a more generalized version of that is an increased drive for exceptionalism. Men will take more risks to succeed at all costs because the safe route means failure. That can be mean war, where many men die and the survivors are the exceptional ones. But it can also mean a highly-stratified society with a class of unsuccessful men who will never marry or have children who are likely treated as not much above slave labor.