What can boys do that girls can't do?

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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?

I'm guessing this is what the teacher is looking for?

I'm guessing that the teacher wants the students to go away and think hard, before coming back with nothing. Then it will lead to discussion of that. Or a comparison with another country etc.

It's a bit of a dangerous game for the teacher though, as I can imagine some very conscientious students may spend a lot of time worrying they can't think of anything.

Completely agree, it's a spectrum. Some men can be absolute tw@ts when it comes to kids and matters post-breakup.

My initial post was in response to some of the snarky comments on here about men. In practical terms, there isn't a lot that both men and women cant do. That's what I tell my daughter, she can whatever she puts her mind to.

RequiresUpdating · Today 19:57
On a slight tangent, do you really talk to your 11 year olds about rape, that no matter how hard they work they'll never be paid equally, that it's not safe to walk around town alone (when they're just starting to get independence and get the bus to places alone) etc? How do you manage that without completely freaking them out?

My then 15 year old was harassed last year at a tube station at 8am on a Sunday morning. She is a black belt at karate. I asked her why she didn’t just deck him? Her response was that he was just pathetic and she didn’t feel threatened, so she had no reason to do anything other than take his photo for potential evidence (knowledge from an incident last summer in Greece) and walk away. Her younger sister (12) is a brown belt, but a lot smaller. The advice to her is always not to let someone get close enough to grab her.

As far as jobs and pay are concerned, I earn about 4 times what their dad does, so that isn’t something that we particularly worry about,

Oh, look, we're talking about Men now.

Could have sworn the thread started talking about girls. But now it's about Men.

Who needs movies to fail the Bechdel Test?

Travel wherever she wants alone and without the fear of sexual harassment.

Yes I know that.

Walk home drunk from the pub after closing time and not fear being abducted or raped

Make a lot of money as a professional sports player.

Sorry but this is insane. Your teen girl child is a black belt... how do you know the adult male isn't a black belt... a much stronger one? Or has a knife?

I wouldn't be suggesting your daughter starts the fight. That way, even if he murders her, he can say it was self defence.

As the question is being asked about children I really can't think of anything that doesn't involve genitalia.

Girls can do anything that boys can, surely.

As it's kids, The only thing I can think of is pee standing up!

What lesson is this question in?

What does it even mean?

What age? All girls? All 11 YOs? Most children? Is it looking an absolute or just things where there is a definite difference between the sexes? Present day or including historically? The UK or worldwide?

Is the question about sex or gender? Are they expecting a boy to stand up stating that 'now that he identifies as a girl he has lost his ability to X'?

Actually incapable of, of just unwilling/fearful of due to societal pressure that people experience to different degrees?

If the subject is science, maybe the answer is that you can't answer a question unless you have properly defined what you are asking otherwise the answer is 'it depends'.

If it is PHSE/a humanities subject, then who knows?

English. It's worksheets on a book they've read, posted a brief summary of book earlier.

I'm assuming it means 11year olds as that's the age of the class and the age of the characters in the book. It says nothing about worldwide and nothing about historically.

@AuditAngel isn't that quite risky advice? I was always taught that the average man is stronger than the strongest woman. Therefore your only chance is to run! Telling a 15 year old to start a fight with a man, even one who can do karate, is likely to end up with her injured.

Yes it’s terrible advice. My DH and plenty of the men he works with / friends etc don’t have any karate ‘belts’ - I’d bet money on it they could still seriously hurt the posters daughters if they wanted to.

In fairness to requiresupdating she does say she advises her daughters not to get close enough for someone to grab them.

never worry about any kind of cancer relating to her reproductive organs.

Um, men do get testicular cancer, you know.

Since 2016, women have been allowed to fight in close combat operations.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45983882.amp

And they can also join the SAS since 2018. Different question altogether as to whether they can pass the entire selection process.

70% of men who try out fail SAS selection!

Currently, there aren't any women who've passed all the SAS selection. Same goes for the SBS, I think.

What are the current rules on groups like Brownies and Scouts? Are they single sex at that age, or now mixed? Do they still have the Boys and Girls Brigades?

Some private schools are single sex only?

The question is asking if there's anything boys can do that girls can't.

Not women and men = grown adults.

The answer is boys and girls can pretty much do the same things with different degrees of difficulty, strength or whatever variable you want to consider.

The real differences between the two sexes really begins to show during puberty to adulthood. So, huge differences between men and women - just look at lifting weights, for example. Canada's Strongest Man winner Gregg Ernst, having already been watched by over 1,000 people lifting two grown oxen, in July 1993, Ernst lifted 2,422.2kg (5340lb), making this officially the world's heaviest lift.

But this doesn't apply to the OPs question about boys and girls, so the difference is negligible!

Presuming by boys and girls they do not mean teenagers given the age of OPs child.

Women can join SAS Reserves, specifically 21 and 23 SAS.

These are badged soldiers. Albeit, they are NOT part of the Regular SAS.

So far, none have successfully passed although two are in the process of doing their selection since 2021.

70% of all male applicants fail for context.

The failure rate is higher than 70%. No one has been ‘doing’ selection since 2021. Don’t believe everything you read in the media.

Scouts have been mixed sex for years now. Brownies/guides (iirc) claim to be single sex, but accept anyone with a "female identity"

So. In terms of 11 year olds and what can they do. Obviously there is some body related stuff, but I'm not sure they'd be comfortable writing about it.
Boys can join boys only football teams/clubs eg boys brigade/attend a bits school and girls can't.
And vice versa.

Meant to say female. Obv.