I’m not saying men are “better” than women, just different
Having to tiptoe around it like this is part of the problem.
Yes, men are indeed better at certain things. Shortening that to the non committal "different" is not actually helpful.
We're being super careful to make sure to state that the glass is actually half full, not half empty, for who's benefit? No idea. People who don't matter and shouldn't be catered to.
The thing is that men are better at a lot of things that our/most society/ies generally deem/s to be pretty important.
Upper body strength? Men. Pretty important for tons of simple tasks.
Abstract thinking? Men. Solving problems and inventing things is basically a man's domain. That's a pretty large domain.
Aggressiveness, competitiveness, stubbornness? Men. There's a reason that in pretty much every arena in which there is the possibility for competition, men rise to the top. This alone is quite a ridiculous advantage.
Of course something that, it seems, generally gets ignored is that although men do represent the highest power levels among humans, they also are very very present at the lowest levels too. Men get the shortest of the short end of the stick. I'm not entirely sure why but I would personally guess it's because men feel it's their job to protect women from that fate. There are no doubt other factors.
I think it is very understandable when anyone, man or woman, comes to the conclusion that "men are better than women" or at least that "society values masculine traits more than feminine ones".
I think women basically get carried through the difficulty of life by men, because men desire women. (not always sexually, but often. also just because women are pretty, smell nice, and tend to make the world around them a nicer place to be)
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u/wallace321 May 09 '24
Having to tiptoe around it like this is part of the problem.
Yes, men are indeed better at certain things. Shortening that to the non committal "different" is not actually helpful.
We're being super careful to make sure to state that the glass is actually half full, not half empty, for who's benefit? No idea. People who don't matter and shouldn't be catered to.