Maybe it just means guys like weapons they can hold. Like drills and swords and... maybe guns, I guess, but guys like to be able to whack things directly.

[Luckily, diversion successful!] Well... they'll do. I can't find exactly the right brush, because this isn't PonyvED! If I told you how to make a mane brush would you transmute one from a normal brush for me?!

[She can't believe she didn't think of this before and it has her so excited she's practically springing through the air.]