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What can boys do that girls can't do?

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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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godmum56 · 27/06/2023 19:01

produce sperm

delightfuldaisy19 · 27/06/2023 19:02

The decathlon

JudgeRudy · 27/06/2023 19:03

Be considered sexually attractive at 60

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Maireas · 27/06/2023 19:04

Have their title dependent upon marital status.

Merryoldgoat · 27/06/2023 19:06

Wear clothes without being told they look provocative.

jay55 · 27/06/2023 19:07

Go to Eton
Be a catholic priest

Northernparent68 · 27/06/2023 19:08

SushiSuave · 27/06/2023 17:17

Get paid the same salary for doing the same job?

The wage gap has been throughly discredited, it’s unlawful to pay women less than men if they work the same job. The reason some women earn less than men is because they work part time.

JesusMaryAndJosephAndTheWeeDon · 27/06/2023 19:08

Be a freemason?

Maireas · 27/06/2023 19:08

Have 9 children by 5 different men and still be considered to be a good Prime Minister.

OMG12 · 27/06/2023 19:10

get prostate cancer
use a penis beaker
not shave their body without being judged
get old without the media try and Shame them

JesusMaryAndJosephAndTheWeeDon · 27/06/2023 19:10

Go topless in public in the UK.

Quinoawoman · 27/06/2023 19:10

Go around topless in hot weather
Not stand in a queue to use the toilet
Wear shorts without shaving your legs

I mean, women could do all these things - but not the way society is currently set up.

Sugarfree23 · 27/06/2023 19:11

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?

Very few, the big driver for change was lottery grants. They could only get grants if they had equal male / female memberships.

OMG12 · 27/06/2023 19:11

JesusMaryAndJosephAndTheWeeDon · 27/06/2023 19:08

Be a freemason?

You can be a female freemason. - not be a royal arch Freemason

suzy2b · 27/06/2023 19:11

JenWillsiam · 27/06/2023 19:00

No they can’t.

Yes they can back about 70s there was a big case where woman went to prison for raping a man think she held him prisoner

Rec0veringAcademic · 27/06/2023 19:12

Piss out a fire?

TeenDivided · 27/06/2023 19:12

Northernparent68 · 27/06/2023 19:08

The wage gap has been throughly discredited, it’s unlawful to pay women less than men if they work the same job. The reason some women earn less than men is because they work part time.

Also because jobs that are traditionally 'female' are less valued and paid less.

Also because women have career breaks or just go on maternity leave.

Why do women go part time? Often to provide childcare. Men don't do that so much because 'their employer wouldn't like it' or 'they are earning more'. Both of which reasons entrench it being the woman's responsibility to give up on their career for family reasons.

So to answer the OP's question. Boys can grow up to be men whose careers are nearly so likely to be negatively impacted when they have a family.

BadNomad · 27/06/2023 19:13

I'm guessing the answer is supposed to be "nothing", so the things that the kids do write will be challenged in class. I.e gender stereotyping.

JenWillsiam · 27/06/2023 19:14

suzy2b · 27/06/2023 19:11

Yes they can back about 70s there was a big case where woman went to prison for raping a man think she held him prisoner

No they can’t. Legal definition here.

she might have gone to prison but it wasn’t for rape.

JusthereforXmas · 27/06/2023 19:14

Walk around topless on a scorching hot day without getting hassled or judged.

blameless · 27/06/2023 19:16

AuditAngel · 27/06/2023 18:12

Be a Sperm donor?

That story about her with the bulging cheeks and her mouth firmly shut wasn't true then?

Sugarfree23 · 27/06/2023 19:17

I think the answer they are really looking for is Nothing.
Girls can do everything boys can and boys can do everything girls can.

Slight difference with adult men and women,
decathlon / heptathlon
Monk / nun
Produce sperm / eggs

gogomoto · 27/06/2023 19:17

@wavingtreetops

Women can join all parts of the army. Not figures are given on the sas so we can't know but they revealed 2 have applied!

Shelby2010 · 27/06/2023 19:18

I guess the answer they are looking for is ‘No, as a girl I can do anything a boy can do.’

WrinklyDad · 27/06/2023 19:19

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