Moved MPSIMS --> IMHO.
Not really?
A man first needs to get over the rather significant hurdle of finding a woman who wants to have (unprotected) sex with him. This is probably easier for a woman, since men tend to more willing to, uh, jump into bed at the drop of a hat.
I’d agree with the rest of your list.
Probably a whole lot less fear walking around in public places. You can make eye contact with strangers without worrying that they might take it as a sign you want to have sex with them.
This.
When conducting business, you are conferred a level of respect outright that would otherwise have to be earned by a woman.
A hooker costs $30 in SE Asia. That is a whole lot easier than having to deal with the traumas of childbirth.
Less pain in general, or at least that’s the impression I get. Pregnancy and childbirth are the obvious ones, then there’s menstrual cramps, and I’ve also heard that breasts hurt while growing in. Nursing apparently hurts too. And breasts in general apparently hurt quite often for one reason or another. Pretty much everything specifically biologically female appears to hurt fairly often.
Men are considered attractive a lot longer as they age.
That’s just a matter of men being either less paranoid or more foolhardy, depending on your viewpoint. Men are more likely to be the victims of crime, not less; they just aren’t as afraid of it and people care less when it happens.
Yeah, not sure what the benefits are that aren’t obvious.
The older I get, the more jealous I am that peeing is such a PITA for women. We were just hiking in Arizona (around Bell Rock) and because it’s the desert, you’re told to drink,drink, drink which means pee, pee, pee. My husband would just walk off the trail behind some tree and let loose. Not so easy for me. There’s no graceful way to pull this off without pulling your shorts and undies halfway down and exposing your neon white ass to the world. I’m pretty sure I temporarily blinded some poor hiker who hadn’t protected his eyes. My husband, curse his black soul, thought that this was hysterical. Damn him and his convenient penis!
I was planting some bushes yesterday and lamented that it takes me three times longer to dig a hole than my husband.
Yes. But if a woman decides “I want to have a baby, NOW”, it’s easier for her to fulfill her dream (assuming no medical issues, fertility problems, etc.) than it is for a man. She can probably go to a college-town nightclub and find a guy to have enthusiastic unprotected sex with fairly easily. It’s going to be less easy for a man.
On the other hand, of course, women do undergo menopause, while men can theoretically father babies well into old age, so I suppose it’s a wash.
Uh, it’s entirely different. Men being assaulted or robbed is entirely different than women being sexually assaulted or raped.
I’ve been physically attacked and robbed before. I brushed it off pretty quickly, after a bit of momentatry annoyance, and I haven’t been traumatized by it in any way. Women on the other hand have to fear sexual violation, which is a much bigger deal and more traumatizing.
It’s not really about crime. It’s mostly about creepy behavior (which is linked to crimes like rape and sexual assault). Men are much, much less likely to be the recipients of creepy behavior. Many women I’ve spoken to are the recipients of creepy behavior pretty much every time they go out in public.
Cite?
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Whoa.
INTERVENTION TIME!!!
It’ll have to involve plenty of beer and a strip club. A Gentile strip club, of course. [/Big Bang Theory]
Men don’t have to grow up.
I assume that Chronos meant that, when it comes to the necessary biological contribution toward making a baby, men have it a lot easier than women. For a man, it takes a few minutes of doing something that feels good, and that’s it. For a woman, there’s a lot more involved, some of it inconvenient, painful, or risky to her health and even her life.
Although as you yourself note in a later post, for a woman who wants to have a baby, it’s easy to find a willing partner than it would be for a man. Men run a greater risk of never having any biological offspring.
There’s a lot of evidence that men are more variable than women with respect to many cognitive and behavioural traits, including IQ. Here’s just one- most studies find similar things.
Cites are not hard to find. I came up with this (“There are more geniuses among men than among women, and more idiots too”) and this (“While male and female IQ test performance is statistically equivalent on average, the male and female score distributions are quite different. There are more men scoring at both the upper and lower extremes of the normal distribution curve.”) and Wikipedia (“The mean IQ scores between men and women vary little. The variability of male scores is greater than that of females, however, resulting in more males than females in the top and bottom of the IQ distribution.”)
I don’t know how reputable these particular cites are, but they agree with what I’ve always heard to be true.
Nine women can’t make a baby in one month. A man could potentially have hundreds or thousands of children if he’s extremely successful–and some men may have actually done so, while a woman could have at most a few dozen.
My uncle sent me this list:
WHY MEN ARE HAPPIER THAN WOMEN
Men Are Just Happier People –
What do you expect from such simple creatures?
Your last name stays put.
The garage is all yours.
Wedding plans take care of themselves.
Chocolate is just another snack…
You can be President.
You can never be pregnant.
You can wear a white T-shirt to a water park.
You can wear NO shirt to a water park.
Car mechanics tell you the truth.
The world is your urinal.
You never have to drive to another gas station restroom because this one is just too icky.
You don’t have to stop and think of which way to turn a nut on a bolt.
Same work, more pay.
Wrinkles add character.
Wedding dress $5000. Tux rental-$100.
People never stare at your chest when you’re talking to them.
New shoes don’t cut, blister, or mangle your feet.
One mood all the time.
Phone conversations are over in 30 seconds flat.
You know stuff about tanks.
A five-day vacation requires only one suitcase.
You can open all your own jars.
You get extra credit for the slightest act of thoughtfulness.
If someone forgets to invite you,He or she can still be your friend.
Your underwear is $8.95 for a three-pack.
Three pairs of shoes are more than enough…
You almost never have strap problems in public.
You are unable to see wrinkles in your clothes…
Everything on your face stays its original color.
The same hairstyle lasts for years, even decades.
You only have to shave your face and neck.
You can play with toys all your life.
One wallet and one pair of shoes — one color for all seasons.
You can wear shorts no matter how your legs look.
You can ‘do’ your nails with a pocket knife.
You have freedom of choice concerning growing a mustache.
You can do Christmas shopping for 25 relatives On December 24 in 25 minutes.
Men Are Just Happier People
NICKNAMES
If Laura, Kate and Sarah go out for lunch, they will call each other Laura, Kate and Sarah.
If Mike, Dave and John go out, they will affectionately refer to each other as Fat Boy, Bubba and Wildman.
EATING OUT
When the bill arrives, Mike, Dave and John will each throw in $20, even though it’s only for $32.50. None of them will have anything smaller and none will actually admit they want change back.
When the girls get their bill, out come the pocket calculators.
MONEY
A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he needs.
A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn’t need but it’s on sale.
BATHROOMS
A man has six items in his bathroom: toothbrush and toothpaste, shaving cream, razor, a bar of soap, and a towel. The average number of items in the typical woman’s bathroom is 337. A man would not be able to identify more than 20 of these items.
ARGUMENTS
A woman has the last word in any argument.
Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.
FUTURE
A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
MARRIAGE
A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn’t.
A man marries a woman expecting that she won’t change, but she does.
DRESSING UP
A woman will dress up to go shopping, water the plants, empty the trash, answer the phone, read a book, and get the mail.
A man will dress up for weddings and funerals.
NATURAL
Men wake up as good-looking as they went to bed.
Women somehow deteriorate during the night.
OFFSPRING
Ah, children. A woman knows all about her children. She knows about dentist appointments and romances, best friends, favorite foods, secret fears and hopes and dreams.
A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
A married man should forget his mistakes. There’s no use in two people remembering the same thing!
Thanks for the cites. I had remembered hearing about this before; I had also remembered being skeptical. I think something like this (the variability itself seems to vary widely by ethnicity – like asian girls being better represented among the highest scores than asian boys – and other factors) might be why I was skeptical, but I’m not well-versed enough on gender and IQ to conclude one way or the other.