# Women are more privileged than men (At least, in the West) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 16, 2016, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-are-more-privileged-than-men-at-least-in-the-west/760076 "2016-07-16T21:59:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-are-more-privileged-than-men-at-least-in-the-west/760076/81 "2016-07-21T05:00:50Z")
Okay, yeah, cool. Women have more complicated anatomies than men do, so, sure, women’s medical care is going to be more expensive than men’s. I have no idea how this ought to be addressed as a health-care-funding and medical-insurance policy thing. (Most likely, if I needed a talking point, I’d write to the NOW and ask them what their proposals are.) ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-are-more-privileged-than-men-at-least-in-the-west/760076/82 "2016-07-21T06:34:53Z")
* * * > [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > …and the smaller pieces are more juicy and flavorful. Yet ANOTHER example of the perfidy of the bevaginaed! “Bevaginaed” is an interesting word. I had trouble parsing it at first. Now I have an image in my brain of the [Bedazzler](http://www.asseenontv.com/bedazzler/detail.php?p=296300); only with vaginas instead of rhinestones. ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-are-more-privileged-than-men-at-least-in-the-west/760076/83 "2016-07-21T06:53:12Z")
I wonder if the OP is angry that the firetruck never comes to his house. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-are-more-privileged-than-men-at-least-in-the-west/760076/84 "2016-07-21T08:14:12Z")
> [@Mangosteen](#): > > Various forms of ab exercises like leg raises where guys have their balls going from side to side and getting caught between their legs. Ouch! I’ve tried a jock, but it doesn’t help much. > [@Trinopus](#): > > Ever see a nude (male) jogger? Holy ow! How the hell did we survive as nekkid hunter-gatherers, chasing antelope with our danglies flapping? Many of us have the same problem further up. ---
**Author:** ![JohnClay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@JohnClay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnClay)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-are-more-privileged-than-men-at-least-in-the-west/760076/85 "2016-07-21T09:55:19Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > Ever see a nude (male) jogger? Holy ow! How the hell did we survive as nekkid hunter-gatherers, chasing antelope with our danglies flapping? In the original Greek Olympics they’d run around in the nude. And in pictures and sculptures their flaccid genitals are tiny. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-are-more-privileged-than-men-at-least-in-the-west/760076/86 "2016-07-21T11:19:16Z")
> [@JohnClay](#): > > In the original Greek Olympics they’d run around in the nude. And in pictures and sculptures their flaccid genitals are tiny. The micropenises are symbolic; a big phallus (as in satyrs) represents a lack of control and self-restraint, a small one (as in heroes) indicates that the bearer is someone whose upper head has the upper hand. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-are-more-privileged-than-men-at-least-in-the-west/760076/87 "2016-07-21T12:06:54Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > The micropenises are symbolic; a big phallus (as in satyrs) represents a lack of control and self-restraint, a small one (as in heroes) indicates that the bearer is someone whose upper head has the upper hand. Uh. I’d never realized that. Ignorance spotted, triangulated, engaged and successfully torpedoed. [QUOTE=Trinopus] Ever see a nude (male) jogger? Holy ow! How the hell did we survive as nekkid hunter-gatherers, chasing antelope with our danglies flapping? [/QUOTE] Hell, I’ve yelped after sitting on mine more often than I can count. The whole meatware is shit and in needing of complete overhaul. We could have had the rat one where janglies only jangle when it’s time to jangle (and it’s time to jangle like 17 times a day !) but nooooo… Intelligent design, my sweet Aunt Fanny. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-are-more-privileged-than-men-at-least-in-the-west/760076/88 "2016-07-21T12:30:46Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Uh. I’d never realized that. Ignorance spotted, triangulated, engaged and successfully torpedoed. I remember having heard that it was symbolic before (by the last time I had Art as part of a required course, any of my classmates was bigger than that… it didn’t make sense that the things on statues would be trying for realism), but never of what. There happened to be an article about it in my local newspaper just this week, so… you guys just got the very shortened, very paraphrased version 🙂 It was a microversion. ---
**Author:** ![YoudNeverGuess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a587f6/32.png) [@YoudNeverGuess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YoudNeverGuess)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-are-more-privileged-than-men-at-least-in-the-west/760076/89 "2016-07-21T12:44:54Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > When men’s reproductive rights are determined by the state, you’ll have a point. Until then, your theory is nonsensical. > > A woman is not a free creature so long as her biology determines her destiny, or the state determines her reproductive choices. +1m ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-are-more-privileged-than-men-at-least-in-the-west/760076/90 "2016-07-21T12:46:29Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > so… you guys just got the very shortened, very paraphrased version 🙂 It was a microversion. Well, they keep telling me it’s not the size that matters. It’s getting kind of hurtful, to be honest :). ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-are-more-privileged-than-men-at-least-in-the-west/760076/91 "2016-07-22T18:38:14Z")
While we are on this topic, who is excited for finding out The First Gentleman’s fashion choices for spring, or what Bill Clinton’s choice of China pattern will be? Seriously, this shit has got to stop. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2016, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-are-more-privileged-than-men-at-least-in-the-west/760076/92 "2016-07-23T05:04:01Z")
> [@ILikeForeignLanguages](#): > > (Examples: “Don’t call women ‘bossy,’ don’t tell women to ‘calm down,’ don’t ‘wow’ women,” etc.). What does it mean to ‘wow’ a woman? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2016, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-are-more-privileged-than-men-at-least-in-the-west/760076/93 "2016-07-23T05:09:10Z")
You just said that? Wow. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-are-more-privileged-than-men-at-least-in-the-west/760076.md?page=4)