Are you better off being a man or a woman?

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Just wondering Idly. Pros female more emotional support not always judged on job pros male societal privilege not judged on appearance. From what I see I strongly prefer being a woman. Thoughts?

Never having been both, I can't say which I personally 'prefer'.

Obviously it's a man's world. That's not really deniable. However, I've read some interesting articles about people who have transitioned from female to male (and vice versa) but stayed in the same profession. It was pretty eye opening to hear them describe the ways they were treated differently as a different gender.

And it wasn't positive for women.

Perhaps google that, and see what you think then.

It depends! Men have a lot of advantages from a society perspective but there are lots of amazing things about being a woman not the least of which is being a mum!

Being a woman, if reincarnation is a thing then I'd definitely want to come back as a . I think it's a helluva lot easier.

It's not easy to judge unless you have been both so we need reincarnation to help us answer this

Oops that should say "come back as a man"

I think its the best time to be a woman. Everything is out there, being discussed, no more hiding stuff away whether its equal pay, rights, relationships, child rearing, work and education. Its all out there and we can learn so much from each other - other women particularly.

When my daughter was growing up I worried about her going out as she hit her teenage years, worried about how she was coping in her university years and still worry as she holds down a demanding job and bringing up her clever, beautiful children - both girls.

My generation was the first that had equal pay in their salaries each month. The first to take advantage of discrimination legislation. We were the generation that fought for the rights that all women in this country currently enjoy.

What has changed since then?

Men, generally speaking and there are exceptions of course, but men have changed. Some have become more offensive, more disrespectful, more angry, more entitled and more unhappy. Their power is slowly ebbing away and they don't know how to handle that.

In my day, most women put up and shut up. These days there's no need to do that anymore. My daughter's in a good strong relationship and if that ever fell apart, she is I know strong enough, clever enough, educated enough to not just survive but thrive if it came to it. That's what's changed I think. Women have power over their own lives.

And long may it continue!

Men are three times as likely to commit suicide as women ...so can't be that advantageous ..

And a shorter life expectancy

Women are more likely to attempt suicide then men though.
Personally I think I would rather be male. But I am not. I think my life would have been easier in lots of ways if I was.

I think it would be better to be a cat

Smiling I agree.

It's a tough one, women have to go through pregnancy, child birth, periods and smear tests, they are often payed less, the man is looked at as 'the stronger one'. But when a relationship ends and children are involved the man is often the one who loses out, quite often losing his home, his children and money ( I split with dh this year and I have ended up far better off than him, though it does serve him right for not putting any effort in ).

I think I'm happy being a woman.

I much prefer being a woman but there's a lot of compromises we make to go as safely about life as we can, not all of them
easy.

I would not like to be an unattractive man, they don't get laid.

I would however like a knob to wank just to have a go, it looks fun.

I think deep down if you are happy you want to be the gender you are

I'm happy being a woman for a number of reasons.

If I didn't live in the UK and lived in a society where I was genuinely oppressed (of course my view of that will differ from orhers) then I might think differently.

I would be very interested to experience an errection and a male orgasm though!.

it must be good (perhaps) to cum at the drop of a hat without emotional attachment.

Or sleep for 20 hours a day, have hugs freely at your disposal and an amazing deep purr...

I'm with you on the cat option, Smiling, they can have pretty cushy lives!

In some ways I feel that we have more freedom than men in terms of whether we stay at home after having children or whether we return to work or go part time. Sure, we get judged either way, but men have a lot more societal pressure to be the breadwinner.

I feel like it's a lot easier for women to seduce men than it is for a woman to be seduced by a man...

On the other hand, it's handy to pee standing up, not have periods or go through childbirth.

I would quite like to be respected more at work, I'm a petite, young woman which is great in some ways but doesn't give me much gravitas in the workplace. I can suggest an idea in a meeting and it gets dismissed, a man suggests the same idea and he gets a pat on the back and everyone agrees. Plus I get interrupted a lot by men.

Wouldn't enjoy the homophobia though, if you do the slightest thing out of your gender norms and stereotypes as a man you're at risk of being laughed at and people calling you 'gay' with a derogatory tone.

I agree re the gender norms as a man. That is one area where I think women have more scope to be individual.

A challenge is that I think some men think SAHM operate a bit like a cat.....

When looking after a number of small children is slightly different...