Men better than women?

Better at peeing standing up.

Better at providing sperm.

Oh sure yeah sex, that’s all that’s on guys minds sex, yeah that conquers things.

Women are better at giving birth to babies, than are men.

Or so, I’ve been told…

You said you wanted BOTH sides.

August 31, 2008, 2:12 PM EDT

Women have always been equal. The tides of time just skewed the bias through social norm.

But I repeat, women have always been just as critical to a functioning society as men. They just weren’t given proper credit.

My point is that the only thing men are better at than women is things that women cannot do, and vice versa.

And driving.

j/k

Well let’s hear a little form the ladies shall we, LADIES!

Women PMS circles around men!

We’re ALL equal!

Okay I’m not a lady but I’m standing to defend the fairer sex.

Maybe I think to much like I’m 90 but I think that women are better with less physical labor and more with thinking and concentration not saying there aren’t strong women and smart guys but if you notice since the beginning of man the men tend to be more physicaly strong and women mentaly strong that’s why we need each other.

I strike first (it a tag team by the way) Einstein didn’t invent that E=mc thing himself, his wife did, he took the credit.

I tag next, Joan of arc she did what a man could not!!!

Care to back that claim up, NecroKing?

Women let men believe that they are stronger/smarter/better because they know that the men need to hear that to nurse their ego. So women let men believe they are in charge, while the women are actually the mastermind behind all good plans. :D

What an arbitrary and loaded question…although I think I can see some objective to the asking, broad sweeping generalizations do no good for the argument. Perhaps some concrete examples may help to draw out the logic in this one?

Some dudes were camping one night (In Texas) and a UFO lands close by. Two aliens emerge from the space ship and walk over to the men and say, “Who is in charge, on this planet?”

One of the men, without looking up from the campfire, replies, “Anyone with a vagina!”

One of the aliens turns to the other and says, “See what I mean? Our race has visited over 5,000 planets in the last 800 years, and we have yet to hear anything different!”

That explains it.

August 31, 2008, 2:34 PM EDT

Thank you Pnl, and JA That’s wrong, and Well Necro? explain on Einstein.

Amazing. I’m wrong about women being better at giving birth to babies.

August 31, 2008, 2:37 PM EDT

Well my father who is German, works at a university in Germany, and it is common knowledge there that they knew who actually created the formula.

Actually it’s funny that proves president bush is a sissy girl, cause anyone who is in charge of this planet has a vagina…hahahah.

@Jack: Schwarzenegger did an okay job.

Not in REAL LIFE…

August 31, 2008, 2:44 PM EDT

GWB isn’t in charge of the entire planet, Wrestle.

August 31, 2008, 2:45 PM EDT

He seems to think he is.

Sure he is – and he’s got Team America – World Police on his side too!!

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Sorry PNL.

Okay. We could not survive without men, and we could not survive without women. Therefore, neither is more important.

You see my proof?

Alright, to answer the question (“Men better than women?”): No.

As for the historical aspect, here’s my pocket philosophy on the matter: Men are ego-centered and women emo-centered creatures. Way back when, before we had the conveniences we have today, women were too busy having and raising kids to play any significant part in the documenting of events and such, therefore, many of their contributions were left out

I love you girls, (kidding, but you’re my friends)

To back Necro, there is a lot of conjecture out there that Einstein’s first wife, Mileva Meric (who was brilliant in her own rite), was intrumental in developing both the special and general theories of relativity. I’ve never heard anything certain on this, though. But many experts on Albert Einstein say that she probably came up with at least part of them if not most.

Necro knows best.

@wildflower – agreed. Now, why do do you think women were rarely given credit through history for anything, while men got it all (good or bad)?

@pnl: was editing as you wrote that ;)

men and women are the same. Women discriminate just as much as men do, but since history has shown that men took it to the extreme, women now feel like it’s their right to do so without repercussion. Sorry, but it’s true. Feminism sort of rubs me the wrong way. As a woman, do you have the right to do whatever you want right this very second? Yes you do. So what if some half-wit says you can’t. Can he make it so you can’t do something? Not legally, he can’t. So, what are women still yapping about? History books? Give me a break. It doesn’t matter. What matters is your life now, the lives of your family’s women, the lives of your daughters, grand-daughters, etc… not what’s happened before us that can’t be corrected.

@poof – i agree, the history books aspect is not that important to me. What annoys me is that women are STILL not paid equal salary as men for doing the same job. And I will continue to “yap” about that until this stops.

Which jobs, PnL? In the healthcare field, which I’ve been working in for several years in some form or another, I’ve always known the women to make more money.

Check this out.

@poof – “Women on average continue to be paid only 77 cents to the dollar paid to their male counterparts.” source + more info about this

also read

@PnL: I personally believe that’s a battle with the employer’s discrimination, and not generalized discrimination. Aside from that, I took this question more to mean a general discrimination against women as a whole, not the finely-tuned details, like individual womens’ wages. I’m not brushing that under the rug… it is a problem for too many women… but it’s not every woman’s struggle the way, say, voting was. Am I making any sense? Or just babbling? lol

Men are better than women at having a penis.

Well not anatomically we’re talking about that were talking about other things.

ugh, men.

I think the reason they didn’t get credit in the past is simple. Men were seen as the big tough protectors and women were seen as meek and timid. They may have done or contributed to great things, but few were credited because men were in power as rulers and scholars. It was simple descrimination and dismissal. I think that is no longer the case for a good portion of the world. The other portion will catch up. There are amazing women in the world, but there are amazing men too. I hate that so many now think men are worthless and no good. Why can’t everyone just give credit where credit is due. I don’t care if you have a penis or a vagina. Do your job well and I will give you credit for a job well done. Don’t and I won’t. Simple. We can’t change what idiots did in the past.

I recommend looking into postcolonial studies. Theorists of this line of thinking have done much to explain differences between masculinity/femininity without forcing some kind of egalitarian theory. Poststructuralism is also a great direction to take. Authors like Foucault, Yegenoglu, Derrida, and Robert C. J. Young can help make sense of this thing called male domination, that I think is much more satisfactory than political rhetoric, and some flawed historical analyses of past scholars.