# What are the benifits of being a man?  (Other than the obvious)

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 12, 2014, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-benifits-of-being-a-man-other-than-the-obvious/701095 "2014-10-12T08:42:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-benifits-of-being-a-man-other-than-the-obvious/701095/141 "2014-10-16T23:40:33Z")

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If you are looking for advantages that aren’t social. you are basically limited to physiology, which is all pretty obvious (more muscle, less getting-pregnant) and maybe some cognitive differences are visible on a population level but probably not on an individual level.

The question I’d suggest is asking why it’s so important right now for you to make this particular division. There are a million ways to break humans into groups, and gender is just one of them. Outside of the many social implications, I don’t think that it is really a huge deal. If you were stranded alone on a desert island, would you want to be a man or a woman? Outside of a bit more muscle and not having periods to deal with, I’d guess it doesn’t matter much.

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