Women are more privileged than men (At least, in the West)

Ehh…while I don’t doubt that some churches scold bad fathers on Father’s Day, the vast majority still seem to be about praising good fathers and their impact on their childrens’ lives.

I’m usually not the “Cite please” type of person, but…cite a source, please.

So men can see up the skirts of the skirts on upper floors?

From other men.

I understand that anecdote <> data, but I’ve attended church services almost all of my life (I’m 53) and I have never seen this.

By the time I’m dead I will have shaved my face about 23,000 times. So who’s got the bigger hygiene burden? Hard for me to say, but Squeeze thinks they know.

Are we having this argument again?

Both genders have pros and cons, in most areas (health, society, etc).

Some we can change (and should be working on changing), some we can’t.

Shaving isn’t a burden, because you can choose not to do it. I don’t know what the consequences would be for a women who chose not to do anything about menstruation, but I can guarantee that it would be a heck of a lot more gross than a beard. And yes, I know that there are medical ways to prevent menstruation, but even then you’ve at least got the burden of taking the pills.

And what’s really prompting the OP is that women are still underprivileged in many ways. There are many people fighting for women’s rights because they still need people fighting for that. There are few people fighting for men’s rights because we don’t really need that. But then people like the OP come along, see that there are more people fighting for women than for men, and conclude that that in itself is an injustice, rather than being the result of an injustice.

Obviously we need to pay them more (funny how you’ve managed to twist an inequality against women into an inequality for women), forbid them from giving birth, and put them down at 78.

Oh come on. Nobody ever put you in a special shaving hut for four days out of the month. No one ever reacted like you were gross because you said you shaved. No one ever forbade you from temple or church because you were shaving. No one ever disbelieved you when you said your shaving cuts hurt, or told you just to get over it, or maybe even told you it was all in your head.

No one ever told you you’d lose your virginity if you used one type of razor (tampons) instead of another (pads)! No one ever made stupid jokes about something that “bleeds for four days and doesn’t die”. How you can even think these things are comparable is behind me.

ETA: I also glanced at that Squeeze link. Does it not know that women shave too? I may not shave daily but that’s because my hair has lightened in quantity considerably over the years. I still shave a couple of times a week, and many women do so more often. Or get tweezed. Or threaded. Or waxed. It’s like it never even heard of the myriad of things women do.

The OP is absolutely right! In my workplace (I’m a guy) I have to wear long pants and a collared shirt but those lucky attractive women can wear sundresses or short skirts that expose their long legs and…oops. I shouldn’t complain:)

I had the impression that Velocity was only referring to the universal physical/logistical inconveniences of menstruation, not the cultural baggage.

My wife gives me grief when I don’t shave. :smiley:

Also, IANABM, but AIUI, black men have it particularly bad when it comes to shaving.

I’m a guy and I live in the western hemisphere. While I enjoy being with women (I married one!), I have no desire to be one. I like being a male in western society. I know when I have a good thing going. I can’t imagine why, given a choice, anyone would choose to be female.

Well, ok, there is that! :stuck_out_tongue:

Oh, trust me when I say that you do not want us to detail the physical/logistical inconveniences of menstruation, but there is no comparison. Even if you’re married, you have no idea.

And many women shave every day as well, sorry guys.

Women have to shave too unless we want to wear nothing, but long pants and skirts with very thick pantyhose. There’s a lot more room on any woman’s legs than on a man’s face. We also have to shave our armpits (at least in the United States) if we wear sleeveless clothes. Once again that’s a lot more shaving than a man has do with his face.

I always wondered why women, with so much more skin area to shave than a man, use those tiny little pink girl razors.

Unless they don’t any more. I’m thinking Cary Grant shaving on the train in North by Northwest with Eva Marie Saint’s leg razor.

Multiple orgasms.

It’s the relevant question, though. Which would you rather be?

Personally, I feel extremely fortunate I was born a man. I think that’s the luckier break.

The OP is full of the most bizarre claims. Women and children are called up first at… meals? What?

Meals, no, but growing up I did encounter “Ladies first” when it was rules about who should get out of an elevator first, etc.

Male, because I think it’s easier.

Once you start adding in the other factors, it’s still generally true, IMO, but starts to get more complicated, especially when you attribute the influences of socioeconomic and racial factors.