What would you say...

Are typically male challenges? Not shared by many women?

 

Yeah man there's tons of them. A man's life is a challenge that a woman can't even comprehend.

 

you have to be careful when zipping up your pants.

 

Sure, but I don't need it to be comparative. Only descriptive.

 

becomming pregnant

 

What could a man go through that a women wouldn't comprehend?

I know that a man will never be able to comprehend childbirth, so please tell me what a man could go through that would compare to that?

Women CAN work and be the "bread winners" in the family now, so what am I missing?

By the way, I'm not a feminist in any way, I just have a problem with this statement.

 

Trying to get it up after a little too much alcohol.

I suppose there are a lot more men than women have to control violent urges.

 

Well, this one hasn't gotten many decent replies, so I figured I'd try it out.

Wandering Soul - sure, women can work and be the "bread winners" in the family now... but how many of them are doing fairly easy jobs? How many women do you see out there on constructon sites working their asses off in super-hot weather to make a living? I know they're out there - I worked at a concrete plant (my husband did, too) and I worked harder than any of the men there... they ran equipment, I did all the dirty work, shovelling sand and gravel usually for 4+ hours out of the day (basically cleaning up their messes), etc. But I did it because I liked it and it was easy for me... usually, it's a "man's job" while a woman works in an air-conditioned building doing something much easier. More employers are willing to hire women for jobs like that, but I don't see more women jumping at the opportunity... they just don't want to.

As for the "child birth" argument... man, I hate the child birth argument. What could a man go through that could be comparable to that? I'm sure there are a million things that could be far worse than childbirth.
Generally, even though women CAN work just like a man, they choose not to. When you think of truckers, construction workers, loggers, fishers, etc. I bet you think of men. And these are jobs where they get hurt... badly.
Maybe it's just what I've seen from the men I know (including my own husband) but I can see a million things that men do that women, generally, don't... not because they can't, but because they choose not to. "Why should I? That's what you're here for."

 

Im a girl, but i do know that men have the pressure to always be tough, and to not show too much emotion or they will be put down by their friends. I know men try to understand the needs of their wives or girlfriends, and when they screw up, sometimes we tend to blow things out of proportion. Men go through many things that we as women will never understand, but we know you're going through things. Women's intuition, it's all the rage! lol.

 

o wait im wrong, some women cant get pregnant

 

War seems like the obvious answer.

 

Just a few examples:

• Getting kicked in the nuts.
• The fear of standing next to someone with an enormous penis at a urinal.
• In fact, fuck it, communal pissing as the norm in general.
• Being expected to work - I know the "breadwinner" thing is supposedly dead and buried now, but it's not like anyone's going to think a lot less of a woman just because she doesn't have a job.
• Friendly physical contact is a lot less acceptable.
• If someone hits you, you're allowed to hit back (unless they're, like, a child or a retard or something).

Mainly getting kicked in the nuts though, which, I don't know, probably isn't that different from childbirth. Certainly if women knew how much it hurts they'd never ever do it.

As an aside though: you really should be a feminist. Not because I want you to turn into a big unwashed lesbian, but more to take feminism back from those who give it a really bad name.

 

To be fair though, when you think of nurses, social workers, etc. you think of women, and those are shitty, albeit in a different way. But I'd agree that it's a lot more acceptable for a woman to, for example, quit work to raise a child, compared to a man.

 

i have no bloody ideal what it means to be a man! yes my biology is male. i've got one X and one Y chromosome. my psychology is quite highly blanced with both feminie and masculine charactistics. all my life i never acted as a male, and i never acted as a female either. i never gave into the sex-role typing of either gender. i just went my own way and did my own thing. i would say i am just human i've been through trial by fire. whomever said that shit about "whatever does not destroy me makes me stronger." never knew what real suffering was! that is a goddamm motherfucking copout! of course both females and males can go through trial by fire. it does not mean it makes someone a man and/or a woman. it just mean you been wounded and that person might now be less the human; or maybe somthing more!

 

Yeah, there is specifically male violence. And specifically female violence (rape).


There is also emotional violence that women simply don't have to put up with. Societal pressures.

Then there is pressure coming from women to comform to certain norms which don't apply to them. Money, strength, vitality, etc.

What's there not to understand, Wandering Soul?

 

Getting your crank stuck in your zipper.

I'm pretty sure that's an all-male problem.

 

I dunno, can ladies get their flaps caught?

 

I should have mentioned, I don't accept any anatomical challenges.


Only psychological challenges that women don't experience and can't fully comprehend.

 

Why not? The ladies always cite childbirth, so...

I dunno, aren't women supposed to be, like, WAY better at dealing with pain than us? Cuz that's something that sucks. I know I've heard loads of chicks talking about that in a sort of "we are one with the goddess" voice, but they're the first to call you a baby when you've got a dose of the dreaded... MAN FLU)))...

 

expectations. those look like a hassle.