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What can boys do that girls can't do?

249 replies

RequiresUpdating · 27/06/2023 17:14

DD(11)'s homework
If you're a girl: is there something, that you would be able to do if you were a boy, that you can't do as a girl?

She has rejected my suggestions of:
look for something that is lost
multi-tasking
going to the toilet standing up (she has a shewee, and says she would be too embarrassed to write that on her homework)

What is the best answer to this question?

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wavingtreetops · 27/06/2023 17:16

Compete successfully against the mediocre to best boys in sports.

Saucery · 27/06/2023 17:16

Nothing. And give examples of why (women in sports, science, the arts etc).

Ffsmakeitstop · 27/06/2023 17:17

What a stupid question. I'd be itching to put absolutely nothing.

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SushiSuave · 27/06/2023 17:17

Get paid the same salary for doing the same job?

GalileoHumpkins · 27/06/2023 17:17

look for something that is lost
multi-tasking

I don't understand your examples, are you suggesting that girls can't look for something that's lost or multi-task?

UnaOfStormhold · 27/06/2023 17:17

Have a biological child without going through pregnancy?

MillicentTrilbyHiggins · 27/06/2023 17:18

Pee easily standing up/outside
Father a child
Rape someone (not that I'd want to, but only men/ boys can)

MeinKraft · 27/06/2023 17:18

Produce sperm.
Get prostate cancer

SkaterBrained · 27/06/2023 17:18

Is it to be specifically about her? If not, I would say something like: "in parts of the world, girls cannot.... (get an education, choose their own husbands, go out without a chaperone).

WeWereInParis · 27/06/2023 17:18

Be king?

Ffsmakeitstop · 27/06/2023 17:18

Saucery said it so much better than me.

wavingtreetops · 27/06/2023 17:19

Be a boy. That's something only boys can ever do.

satellitesunshine · 27/06/2023 17:19

helicopter willy

MeinKraft · 27/06/2023 17:19

Play for a male football team although can of worms

SkaterBrained · 27/06/2023 17:19

Be colour blind maybe?

MissyB1 · 27/06/2023 17:19

MeinKraft · 27/06/2023 17:18

Produce sperm.
Get prostate cancer

These, plus own a Y chromosome!

NotAMissionPriority · 27/06/2023 17:19

Be on a winning girls team playing against a professional men's football team.

Google "women's football team beaten by school boys" and a dozen examples will come up.

LorraineInSpain · 27/06/2023 17:19

Win an Olympic medal in the decathlon?

Mummytolittleones92 · 27/06/2023 17:20

Girls cannot join the SAS.

LorraineInSpain · 27/06/2023 17:20

SkaterBrained · 27/06/2023 17:19

Be colour blind maybe?

Women can be colour blind, it’s just less common

wavingtreetops · 27/06/2023 17:21

Mummytolittleones92 · 27/06/2023 17:20

Girls cannot join the SAS.

I don't think girls can fight on the front line in the British army? They didn't use to be able to about ten years ago anyway.

EarthlyNightshade · 27/06/2023 17:21

Are there still golf clubs that don't admit women?

Otherwise, produce sperm, go around being hairy and no one bat an eyelid?

YouJustDoYou · 27/06/2023 17:21

Have a prostate exam.

ViaRia01 · 27/06/2023 17:21

Be a catholic priest (is that true still…?)

do you know the point of this question? Are they trying to demonstrate that women are still oppressed in some ways or that there’s nothing really that a women can’t do.

Absolem76 · 27/06/2023 17:22

I think the best answer is to say there is nothing that a boy can do that a girl can't and then go on to give some examples through history where women have been told they can't do things because they are women (play football, have a career, vote, go to university etc)and show how things have changed