Yes, they do, in the same way that interior decorators decorate for other interior decorators, and architects design for other architects. Who better to appreciate the artistry and hard work than someone else in the business?
Men tend to have deeper, less childlike voices.
Sounding childlike isn’t a good trait if you want people to take you seriously.
Uh-oh. I may be a man.
I’m not disagreeing with any of that. The original claim was that ‘men can have children more easily’, and I was disputing that. Both sexes have different obstacles to overcome if they want to have a baby- for women the physical process of childbearing is the big hurdle, for men it’s the process of finding a sexual partner.
It’s true that women have historically been able to trade their sexuality for social status, more so than (straight) men. I wonder if now that more women are reaching the heights of economic/social/intellectual success, if more of them are going to start looking for trophy husbands. I have a friend who was a Peace Corps volunteer in a West African country, and apparently a lot of the men there were super-eager to marry a rich European woman and move to Europe. (That situation was probably aggravated by an unfavourable gender ratio, since polygamy was common there which made it harder for poor men to find a wife locally).
G’wan. Go send the women out who feel that is all that they want in a man.
C’mon, Rundstedt, release those panzer reserves!
Yeah, I didn’t think so.
I feel like men make same sex friends way easier than women do. Guy friends are low maintenance. We have thicker skins, less need for self censorship. We can just hang out, shoot the shit, and break balls. Or you can do something and not even feel a need to fill the silence with talky talk. But I could be wrong.
You know, people always say this, but I really think it’s either overblown or people are hanging out with the wrong girlfriends. I’ve got a great and enormously diverse group of female friends who are as laid back and drama free as you could ask for.
Men can express interest in nerdy or niche topics without people saying they’re only doing it for attention.
I disagree. At a bar, a woman can approach any other woman and strike up a conversation with out it being weird. A guy can’t just walk up to another guy and say “Hey, I like your shirt.” and then expect that conversation to not get awkward.
Now, two guys that are already happen to be setting by each other at a bar can start up a conversation at a bar, but it’s probably going to small talk about the game that’s playing on the TV. And initially at least, both men are going to have their defenses up more so than women would.
I will say this though: Men tend to have more sincere friendships than women do. For instance, men don’t make active plans to hang out with people they clearly don’t like. I’ve seen women do this on multiple occasions.
When working with younger kids, kids know Dad’s are “cool”, while Mom’s… well they are great Mom’s, but they are not cool.
Take for example, when a Dad goes to school to eat with lunch with his kid, we are a CELEBRITY. Kids crowd around us and, well it helps I’ll do these little magic tricks and such and generally entertain. Never once will I make any comment on what the kids are doing or tell them to do anything.
Now a Mom, well… the kids know she will tell them to clean their plates, to eat their vegetables, to swipe their mouths, etc… all Mom stuff.
I’m definitely doing something wrong. Maybe it’s because elementary schoolers think juggling is cool, not geeky.
Also, if something from the cafeteria looks gross, I share their disgust.
So you juggle? If you were a Mom coming to school would you look at the food and call it gross?
One thing I’ve noticed about raising boys vs girls is it seems that teenage girls, when they get to be around 15, will lock horns with their Mom’s way more than boys do with their Dad’s. I dont know if its a kind of competition between who’s the head queen of the house or what but I just see alot of teen girls practically make a bullseye on their mothers and seem to pick alot of battles with them. It could also be that the mothers in turn, maybe start to get a little envious of their daughters when they start having a better body than them.
Granted this seems to stop at around age 18 when they begin to get along again.
Fathers and sons can also have issues but I dont see this nearly as bad.
I can be bad at stuff without onlookers deciding to use it as an indictment of my entire gender.
The majority of mainstream entertainment is geared towards me.
I can express an opinion on Twitter without being doxxed or threatened (unless I try to support a woman who is having that happen to her, it turns out).
I have one shirt size that works no matter where I buy it.
Most governments don’t feel the need to legislate my reproductive organs.
Way less speculation on my sex life.
I can receive compliments from the opposite sex and not worry if they’re doing it just because they want to have sex with me.
Well, actually,— onlookers who see how bad your are at stuff do indict your entire gender…but there’s a difference:.
A woman who sees your attempts at housecleaning, or your inability to know the difference between laundry detergent and softener, will be glad to roll her eyes and inform you that all men are the same.
But the great thing about being a man is …that you don’t care. 
I like how invisible I can be as a guy. I can go anywhere and do anything and no one much bothers me, or tries to rape me or force me to have a drink with them. I can try to get any job I want, pretty much, and nobody will give me shit for it. It’s nice just being able to operate freely without undue interference in life, fueled by sex and stereotypes, and I think that’s a luxury many women probably don’t have.
I don’t think that’s really true. At least, I would feel pretty awkward walking up to some random woman. I would probably be more comfortable walking up to a random guy.
Author Joseph Wambaugh, a former cop, was very high on policewomen. He thought that, in general, women made better detectives than men because, first and foremost, a detective’s job is to get people to talk- and he thought women were better at that.
The one thing he said men will ALWAYS be better at was… stakeouts! A policeman can sit in a car watching a suspect’s house all day; he just has to bring a milk jug to pee in. A policewoman has to leave the car to find a rest room a few times a day!
It is since I got too old to be able to squat and my family and friends often want to go places where there are no bathrooms. When I could squat I hated splashing on my shoes.
There’s a female judge in Seville who’s investigating corruption in all kinds of government entities, Mercedes Alaya. She’s an attractive brunette, with the kind of body that looks good in pencil skirts (most Spanish women look like beached whales in those, we tend to be “guitar shaped” and have short legs).
Conversation I’ve had several times:
Person: “Why are they always criticising her clothes? If she wears a pencil skirt, ‘too sexy’, if she’s in the supermarket on a Saturday in jeans and a large tee, and who the fuck cares about a government worker’s supermarket habits, ‘she’s too sloppy’, if trousers because trousers and if dresses because dresses!”
Me: “A lot of the people critizicing her have Law degrees - the fact that they’re attacking her clothes and not her job tells me that her job is superb. Those gits are terrified of her.”
Person: “Oooohhhhh! Well, sign me up for the Mercedes Alaya fan club! And may she turn those fucks into mince meat!”