Should women be allowed to do everything men do?

[Hullygully]

Talk to me about equality.

[MalenkyRusskyDrakonchik]

Nah. Our vaginas get in the way all the time.

[DeWe]

If you wish to go into the gents and wee standing up, then I won't stop you.

[Hullygully]

No, this is a serious point.

Are we not equal but different?

Don't we all have different roles?

[Trapper]

You are welcome to do everything I need to do today. I'll go back to bed.

[Sheshelob]

No.

Jar opening is something my vagina inhibits me from doing.

Oh, and working as a team. I can't do that.

[VinegarDrinker]

What things are we not allowed to do?

Submarines? Front line combat? There must be more.

[mmmerangue]

Yes, if they want to.

Not every woman is as strong as a man, but some women are stronger than some men.

Not every woman wants to be a builder, or in the army, or whatever your preferred 'male role' is, but some do.

Not ever man wants to either.

My favourite quality story of the week www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22828150

[Buzzardbird]

No, we should be made to undress to the sound of cheesy music.

[MalenkyRusskyDrakonchik]

I think the differences between any two individuals randomly picked are just as significant as the differences between men and women, once you take social conditioning out of it.

[Hullygully]

I used to command a sub, so that isn't true.

They are surprisingly easy.

[mmmerangue]

Woops try again

[VinegarDrinker]

"Don't we have different roles?"

IMHO only as much as any two people have different roles. I'm sure my interests, strengths and weaknesses are very different to yours. I just don't think my anatomy has anything to do with it.

[EleanorHandbasket]

Fathering children.

And watching really boring telly programs.

[Hullygully]

The good thing about being in charge of a sub is all the lovely young men you can get to help you press the buttons n shit

[VinegarDrinker]

Ah I am obviously misinformed.

Small Russian got there first with the point I was going to make, anyway.

[mmmerangue]

I type with my fists, by the way.

*every man

*equality story

[Sheshelob]

I don't think there is any universal male thing that women can't do. But I do think everyone is different. It just doesn't have to be along gender lines.

[Buzzardbird]

Thought submariners never used the term 'sub'? So my DDF told me if ever I slipped up.

[EleanorHandbasket]

I want to be in charge of a sub.

A twelve inch BLT one.

[limitedperiodonly]

I think more menz should be allowed to be as artistic and celebratory of their bodies as women.

[cory]

Who is this person who gets to do the allowing? How about letting adults decide for themselves- and take the risk of rejection if they are not up to the job?

[MalenkyRusskyDrakonchik]

Although, interestingly (well, only to me), if you chose to fiddle around with two eggs, I believe you could splice together a baby. You couldn't with sperm because they don't carry the information. But theoretically, I think women could 'father' babies.*

*This is a random sci-fi point. This is not evil feminists annihilating menz from the reproductive process. That happens later, after we have built the yonic memorial in the shape of a giant vulva and sung a rousing chorus of Nana was a Suffragette.

[Northernexile]

Only as long as you don't refer to yourself as a feminist in polite company. Couldn't be having that.

[TondelayoSchwarzkopf]

Oh God, I'm not now expected to watch Top Gear, grow a moustache every November and order the hottest curry on the menu even though I won't enjoy it.

Feminism has a lot to answer for.