True.... it is a human trait to play the victim. It is a rare person that acknowledges their own failures and not blaming others.
With men, you typically see this with financial, career and business decisions they make that do not work out. I could give you countless examples from not understanding tax laws to making really stupid investment or career decisions.
With women, it really tends to be interpersonal relationship decisions. Not just romantic decisions, but also picking the wrong female friends.
When you evaluate truly successful people, they tend to have a common tread.... that is the ability to self-evaluate, get to the root cause of what went sideways, then have the discipline to make change while acknowledging their own shortcomings and mitigate factors you cannot control, while reinforcing those factors that work in their favor. But you cannot do this with emotional decision making and without self-critique.