Not and survive afterwards… geez…
Exprix, we do have two viable candidates.
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Men can produce an arbitrarily high number of children simultaneously, women are limited to (in healthy, practical terms) about three.
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Men can produce children more or less indefinitely. Sperm count and motility decline with age, but almost never go to zero. Women, with very rare exception, are through having kids by 60 at the outside.
Rebuttals?
I’m really not impressed by post quality in some instances here.
Who can resist a good sale? Who can shut up when someone else is on the phone?
This stuff doesn’t answer the OP and makes the people who post this stereotypic stuff look either very rude or not smart enough to answer the OP articulately.
The only differences between men and women are purely physical ones (and most of those can be changed with the right surgery). Otherwise, men and women are the same. We do all the same things, think the same thoughts , just not the same way! Just because we do them differently, doesn’t mean we can’t both do them.
Yeah I can think of plenty of generalizations. Most of mine would be biased toward women,because I am one (not becuase of any superiority).
Don’t think I’m being too serious about things, but I hate to see what started out as a really interesting thread turn into gender-bashing.
There—I only have 98 cents now.
See you,
Sue
Feynn wrote:
Women also have the ability to make a complete side-arm-circle, in which they can point their arms straight back. Men cannot do this.
The reason? Men have an extra muscle group anchored to the front of their upper arm. The going theory is that this evolved to help them throw spears long distances, back when Homo sapiens was still a hunter-gatherer species.
Regarding **Max Torque’s[\b] rotating-elbow move:
It’s a neat archery trick that keeps the shooters inside forearm from getting twanged by the bowstring. I’m female and am able to rotate my elbow like that with ease.
Ew, drat. My first error-ridden post. Shoulda been a lot less bold text there and “shooter’s”. Trifling, I know, but just wanted to make it right.
This is another example of the physical differences betwwen the sexes, and is closely related to the chair against the wall thing discussed earlier.
Men can throw their weight over the spinning wheel of a riding lawnmower to increase its traction and get the mower moving again. Women can’t do this (at least none I know) because our center of gravity never leaves the seat.
But then, men can’t put their ankles behind their ears.
Wanna bet?
You’ll pardon me for injecting a serious note in here, I hope? On the differences between men and women, I have observed the following:
- most men are physically larger and stronger than most women. In particular, men have much more upper body strength than women. Women, however, seem to have more physical endurance. This is particularly obvious when coaching little league ball players. You can’t teach boys and girls to throw and bat the same way. What works for one gender doesn’t work for the other.
- most women can get pregnant, bear babies, and nurse them, men can’t. At least not without heroic medical intervention, and that was disallowed earlier.
- I am a middle-aged guy, in good physical shape, 6’2" tall, about 195 pounds, and that trick with standing two foot lengths away from a wall, putting your head on the wall, picking up a chair, then standing up straight, you know that trick men can’t do? I can do it. I described myself in some detail so nobody could legitimately suggest there must be something weird about my body, like I have unusually short legs, or a long torso, or a huge ass that lowers my center of gravity. I don’t. I’m an ordinary, normally proportioned guy. Some people even think I’m not bad looking.
- I have two children, one of each gender, and nobody will ever convince me there aren’t profound, built-in differences between them. Not just as individual people, but as representatives of their gender. Both my wife and I noticed what we call stereotypical gender-based behaviours in them from the first day we brought them home from the hospital.
- This is the nearest thing to a sexist remark I’m going to make, and it’s only a statistical observation like my first point, not an absolute difference: most women seem incapable of not talking if there’s anyone within hearing distance.
Do I duck and run now?
Widely overlooked… The breastfeeding thing. Oh and of course there is the squirt-your-wisecracking-friend-at-the-end-of-the-couch-with-breastmilk trick, which if you have never seen it is really a hoot (yes, a pun).
Our friend never called my wife Elsie again after that.
Ah, breastfeeding - hadn’t thought of that one.
Esprix
I once heard that there is a nerve that connects the right and left sides of your brain. During development men have a hormone that cause a decrease in the size/ability of the nerve. Women don’t. This is where women get what they call intuition. When the artistic/creative side of the brain can speak more freely with the mathematical/logical side they tend to be able to see the whole picture subconsciously.
I just remembered, how about testosterone and estrogen?
No - I see that as both having a set of hormones. They may be unique to each gender, but it’s not like one has hormones and the other doesn’t have any.
Esprix
Actually, both women and men have both estrogen and testosterone, just in different amounts. A female friend of mine is on testosterone therapy because her body doesn’t produce enough on its own (no more jokes about her having to get laid more often, thanks).
Besides, that would be another of the you-have-yours-and-I-have-mine things, like sperm and eggs.
It’s a major brain structure called the corpus colossum, not just a nerve. Both genders have it, but it is about 20% larger proportionally in a woman’s brain. As far as the link to intuition goes though, that is merely one hypothesis.
With out looking at the obvious differences there is one thing that Women cant do that men can.
You all have heard the song Wipe Out?
the drum line that they do can only be done by a man. Why?
There is a tendon in the male arm that is missing on the female. With out it you can’t get that “snap” back and continue to the next beat.
Ummm…grow nostril hairs the size of Detroit?
Obviously you’ve never met Mrs. Terwilliger… 
Esprix
OldMan, you’re not alone. Prof. James Moore, a primatologist at UC San Diego, can do it, too. I referred to this “difference” in class once, and none of the men could do it - except him. Several times. Physically ordinary specimen, too, if you discount the homeliness. He always had a talent for ruining my life. Be sure to call him up and tell him he’s an asshole.