A cheerful thread for Christmas! Do you agree that women do have some natural advantages?

detected very dodgy electrical fittings by noticing that odd fishy smell they produce when no-one else noticed.

I had the same thing happen - fuse in my shower burnt out & it smelled like fish gone off. Took me a while to realise what it was as was convinced my teen had left food to rot (but couldn't find it) & the plumber was quite surprised I guessed it was the fuse.

'Tis truly my super power 💪😁

I love being a woman for many reasons, a sense of sisterhood being one.

I have to question 'women are more pleasing to the eye', though - see 'the male gaze' and much Greek art, for reference. Without getting into sexual attractiveness at all, either - our aesthetic preferences are heavily culturally conditioned - currently a woman's figure/form is lauded as 'beautiful', but I find both men and women beautiful in their own ways (I'm an artist and this discussion comes up every so often when teaching life drawing). We maybe find it easier to look at women because they are so often held up as 'beautiful' and associated with 'beauty'. Greer is good on the beauty of men, too.

I've always thought women look aesthetically far more beautiful than men look. Women simply are more visually pleasing to the eye.

I fancy men. I love men, but I am attracted to what they say, their attitude, personality traits, voice, more than their looks. I don't often find men or their bits that nice looking. Obviously the men I fancy I find nice looking.

We're less likely to be colour blind as it's carried on the sex determining chromosome X. Women always have a back up X so both X's need to have the defective gene. Men don't have a spare X so there you go.
Incidentally, you can stain a sample of cheek cells and you can see the inactive X. It's called a Barr body.
Also we can conceive and bear children.

Beamur I would back up your wrapping presents statistics.

Bring on the zombie apocalypse.....

Re better sense of smell I have twice detected very dodgy electrical fittings by noticing that odd fishy smell they produce when no-one else noticed.

The second time I was poo-pooed by all concerned except the electrician I called out. He said there was a very good chance of fire breaking out if I hadn't called him.

Don't women have better stamina and outperform men in extreme distance events in running and swimming? Think that's true.

Women on the whole don't tend to go bald
They can wear just about anything they want-skirts, dresses, trousers, trainers, heels
They can wear make up, or not as it suits them

And when women do go bald they have the option of staying bald and being bold and brave or wearing a wig, headwrap, turban or hat with no adverse comments.

Don't women keep warmer? And survive longer in the cold because of it?
Based on my observations of open water swimmers, and winter swimmers without wetsuits in particular, those of us with more body fat tend to do better in the cold. And we do tend more towards being older women.

We may just be tougher up north, mind

I refute the smell thing. Permanent dust allergy means I'm both massively oversensitive to irritating perfumes and also rubbish at smelling things. I like a lot of spices in my food!

Based on a very small (and statistically unrepresentative) sample, women are better than men at wrapping presents.

I read a book about a group of people who survived in open boats. In famine/disaster situations the short, fat women live longest.

Yay! I'm going to live for EVAH!!!

We experience fewer conditions linked to genes because we have two X chromosomes. A defective gene on one X chromosome is cancelled out by a good equivalent gene on the other X chromosome. Colour blindness is one example.

Yes Jacks we just have to find ourselves in open boats, fighting for survival. Or maybe the Zombie Apocalypse. Something to look forward to.

MrsTerryPratcett there is hope for me yet then.

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[hands up for confusion] I’ve always been dead jealous of women who had friends for life from school. I have one from sixth form. Does that count? Other than that I have lots of temporary friends. Man I suck at bring an adult human female. 🤦🏽‍♀️

I read a book about a group of people who survived in open boats. In famine/disaster situations the short, fat women live longest. In your face tall, muscly men. They die first of all.

I have read the redhead thing before. But basically it’s thought that they have a lower threshold not higher and someone with a lower threshold would need more anaesthetic. And I can’t see how you can have a high threshold for childbirth and other procedures but then suddenly need more anaesthetic if you’re being put under. I think the pp got the high/low threshold confused.

Friends. Generally women have great nurturing supportive friendships that add a tremendous amount their lives. I know some men do too but in general I think friends are something that women do so so much better than men and it makes our lives so much richer

Pssibly less for goving birth/ basic procedures, but if you need to be knocked out then more? Querying from a brunette perspective. Apart from the regular biological functions, I can’t think of anything myself. Happy to be alive though and pleased with the body that has survived everything that has brought this about.

Orgasms, that is all.

Agree Notevenmyrealname many of these advantages are actually socially engineered.

Don't women keep warmer? And survive longer in the cold because of it?

I’m sorry wallythewasher, but I refute both your claims. They may be true for you but I don’t believe they are representative of inherent male / female differences.

I feel like women have better attention to detail in that they notice eg a bad atmosphere or a dodgy person or get an unspoken vibe from a place or person.

I think this is more an introvert / extrovert trait and there is no correlation between men and women in that regard. My DH is better at this sort of stuff than I am.

Also my OH can never ever find anything even if it’s somewhere obvious and even if he’s given explicit descriptions it’s so annoying

This is to do with socialisation and the idea that multitasking is a feminine trait and that home management is a woman’s job. My DH is exactly the same and yet is quite capable of holding down a very responsible project related job where he has to be able to instantly know where something is up to. He can do that but somehow can’t remember which cupboard the glasses and mugs go in - it’s not a lack of ability it’s a lack of willingness to use that same part of the brain for tasks that he doesn’t seem to be as important.