What can women do that men cannot do? (Reproductive features aside)

[Kimsha]

Happy Father’s Day to all celebrating! June for me is Fathers month as my dad passed away in June so truly I think of Fathers and Men a lot this month.

I would like some ideas around the question - What can women do that men cannot do? -

Am I being unreasonable to think that aside reproduction (potential to carry babies, features that come with this) there’s nothing.

If anyone can help with a different view, I’d be grateful.

Thanks

Sneeze at a normal volume.

Sit on the tube without the need to air their 'Jenny Talia' in public?

@GreenTulips
That’s because men aren’t fussed about the details as long as there’s a variety of food to eat while women are more likely to be like “why did you get the low fat yoghurt?” “I don’t like these crisps didn’t they have the other ones?” etc

Cam77

Are you saying that they’ve never notice x butter in the fridge?

Silent treatment. Men seem to get bored/cave in after a couple of hours while women could keep it going until the sun burns out

No, my DH tried silent treatment on me (aka sulking for days) at first until I told him that if he persisted in toddler behaviour then he would live in silence I.e. Alone. He hasn't sulked since. He talks things out like an adult.

My husband is expert at changing duvet covers and giving the silent treatment.

[quote Cam77]@GreenTulips
That’s because men aren’t fussed about the details as long as there’s a variety of food to eat while women are more likely to be like “why did you get the low fat yoghurt?” “I don’t like these crisps didn’t they have the other ones?” etc[/quote]
So true. We’ve been taking turns weekly food shopping during lockdown; DH puts ‘crisps’, ‘Fruit’, ‘dessert’, on the shopping list when I go.

I put down a specific flavour and brand, with named alternatives in case they haven’t got the first choice.

@Goatinthegarden I am like your DH😂
I've never had brands on a list. Though we usually buy the same ones so no point I guess. It just... Naturally evolved into knowing what to buy

@Cam77

I’ve been doing some grocery shopping for my parents during lockdown.

My dad is very specific about the details.

It’s all “I want this specific brand of butter and that brand only” “this own brand flavour smoothie from this supermarket, that’s the only one I like” and so on.

My mum is much less bother. She’s happy to go for another brand or flavour if the supermarket doesn’t have her first choice in.

I’ve been doing a lot of calling dad from the supermarket about how they don’t have this specific brand / flavour and is he sure he won’t have any alternative brand of X.

My husband always said “women can have an entire conversation using just their eyebrows. Men can’t do that.”

I think untying fiddly knots and laying down fat.

Men half an hour faster swimming the channel according to this

It's not about speed, it's about distance. (Although to be fair, Google says the first woman to swan the Atlantic did it in about a third of the time of the first man. (24 days vs 73.) )

Eat a bag of crisps quietly in public.

Just listen to it the next time you're out in public e.g. on a train or waiting room, etc.

I find the two different approaches fascinating in a people watching kind of way.

Just found out that DS3 is better at the chair challenge than I am!

Control their emotions better
Not predatory

Assessing risk.

Reproductive features aside? Nothing!

put a new toilet roll on?

Run countries well.

Women are very good at putting themselves between a rock and a hard place by having multiple children, giving up their careers and becoming financially dependent on men.

Don’t see a whole lot of guys making enormous life sacrifices.

The balance beam in gymnastics.

Women are far superior on this apparatus, and men do not compete on the balance beam in the Olympics.

There you go! Nothing about reproduction there.

Females mount more of an immune response to identical stimuli than males, which generally works in their favour (although not always, if pregnant). Females metabolise some drugs differently to males (e.g. propranolol), have different heart attack symptoms to males, are generally more adept at gymnastics than males (due to pelvis shape) but also have less upper body muscle in general vs males. Females are less prone to be hamstrung by X-linked diseases vs males as they have a backup X where males do not. Females generally live longer than males, internationally.

I can go on!

Control their emotions better

I don't know tbh... I think it's the other way around. Man are not known to sob and shake when someone knocks on the door... Or sob at TV

Work more hours for less money and accept it

Take a shit in minutes rather than hours.

I reckon this must be down to our pushing muscles (but that's back to reproduction!).

If men could power push when they took a dump they'd all be bragging about speed and power dumps to their mates