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ILoveMew
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 Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 7:30 pm Post subject: Do you ever wonder what its like to be a girl? |
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| Would it make life easier? Or just different? How? Girls seem to have it easier than us guys. My little sister seems to have it really easy. I get frustrated and just wonder sometimes. I know there are movies about this, getting swapped with another person of the other sex. What do you think guys, do girls or boys have it better? |
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YankeesGamer24
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| It's a tough question, but as of right now guys have the advantage. Girls statistically make less per year than guys and seem to have to spend more time on their appearance (makeup, hair, etc..) I don't really like how this works, but the social norm is that girls usually have to be asked out by guys. So, guys get to choose which girl to ask out, and the girl doesn't have as much of a choice. Also, for Athletes there is more money out there for professional male athletes than woman athletes. I guess you also say that a pretty girl can marry a rich guy and have a relatively easy life. Its close, but I'd have to say it is better to be a guy. |
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Alethes
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why.
uthinkingofgettingtransgender ? |
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sinsboldly
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I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist . . .
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Apera
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You'd have a different set of problems, but they'd still be problems. I just wish a single kick wouldn't bring me to my knees.
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Ferdinand
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Girls get raped a lot or something. And they have to put make-up on.
Boys fight though. |
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randomgirl
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I think that while men do have more responsibility (protect, provide, work hard) than girls, I think in general, girls have it harder. Girls who become mothers have to deal with being pregnant, having the baby, and raising the baby almost entirely herself (since most men don't get involved with most of the child care since they are working.) Girls in general have to deal with periods month in and month out which means constantly fluctuating hormones, have to fight to even get their voice heard, are often treated as much lower than men BY men, are held up to a standard of size 0 or 2 by society and by men, and are treated as imperfect unless they have that perfect body.
So tell me...what do you think?
I'd rather be a boy in so many ways. I'd rather get a kick in the nuts than have to deal with being a woman some days. The society is changing, but it is still favorable towards men in so many ways. With that said, I think each gender has their own set of problems, and neither is the "better" gender. Boys would argue that girls have it so much easier. Girls argue that boys have it so much easier. I'm not sure why guys seem to think girls have it so easy. |
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sinsboldly
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| Ferdinand wrote: | Girls get raped a lot or something. And they have to put make-up on.
Boys fight though. |
I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body. ~Elaine Boosler
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sinsboldly
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| YankeesGamer24 wrote: | | It's a tough question, but as of right now guys have the advantage. Girls statistically make less per year than guys and seem to have to spend more time on their appearance (makeup, hair, etc..) I don't really like how this works, but the social norm is that girls usually have to be asked out by guys. So, guys get to choose which girl to ask out, and the girl doesn't have as much of a choice. Also, for Athletes there is more money out there for professional male athletes than woman athletes. I guess you also say that a pretty girl can marry a rich guy and have a relatively easy life. Its close, but I'd have to say it is better to be a guy. |
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. ~Isadora Duncan
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sinsboldly
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| Ferdinand wrote: | Girls get raped a lot or something. And they have to put make-up on.
Boys fight though. |
Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human.
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meimnobody
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I think both girls and boys have advantages and also problems. You got to remember that males and females may differ but deep down we are all human. Every human must grown up, go through puberty, body changes, deal with society.
Adolescence is rough on everybody. And both sexes have there own crap to deal with.
I think that there will always be a debate on this subject. 
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astaut
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| Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 7:38 pm Post subject: Re: Do you ever wonder what its like to be a girl? |
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| ILoveMew wrote: | | Would it make life easier? Or just different? How? Girls seem to have it easier than us guys. My little sister seems to have it really easy. I get frustrated and just wonder sometimes. I know there are movies about this, getting swapped with another person of the other sex. What do you think guys, do girls or boys have it better? |
Are you basing your views on one girl you know (your sister) + movies? 
I don't think you can say one is 'easier' than the other because they are different. As a teenager, I got annoyed with the excuse that I couldn't do things because 'it isn't safe for a girl.' But there are plenty times that I'm glad that I'm not a boy.
There was a 'boys vs. girls' argument on Friends the TV show once...it ended with saying guys could pee standing up, but the winner was that women could have multiple orgasms  |
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right-hand-child
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in my opinion boys have it a bit easier. for reasons difficult to discern, women have to try a lot harder to be accepted into society (i.e. stereotypes like "women can't be fat" "women shouldnt have X job"). dating is also a bit harder to deal with than it is for men, for some reason it is viewed as "unaceptable" for a girl to ask a guy out, and a lot of girls cant get the guys they like because of this, wheras guys can choose who they want (not like their feelings toward women are felt by their crushes all the time though)
although men do have problems, as well as being "left-behind" in dating if they happen to be shy, men are subject to more disorders/deseases than women, like downs syndrome, being colour blind, or a more relative example here would be AS, although women can still get it obviously, except men are more likely to. |
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Michael_Stuart
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While personally I think I would rather be female (but I don't think pursuing it now would be rewarding), I do think males have it easier. Besides the biological advantages (no pregnancy, no menstruation, no menopause, and stronger on average) males simply don't have as much expectations. Sure, certain groups of males have expectations, but overall you can do a lot of things as a male. There's much less of a stereotype people want you to fit in, you have many options.
There's also the remaining discrimination. It's not as bad as it was, sure, but males still generally have it easier. (With the exception of middle-aged men, I'd think) |
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Kat15
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| No, because im a girl already. |
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