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We're equal, but different. People have a tendency to fear and discriminate the different.

Personally, if we're arguing the "whose been through more" argument, it all depends on the person, and a male who's been raped goes through as much trauma (and sometimes more) than a female. Women do get raped more often than men, though, so either shoudl be counted in such an argument.

As for girls in school, The Washington Post answers this rather nicely.

Online, characters or forum participants with female names get 25 times more malicious messages. Do women go through more? On average.

I've seen men being discriminated against just as I've seen women discriminated against, fewer times, but it still happens, so I think your last question should be reworded. What's most infuriating, is that most girls are perfectly fine with being called "b***h" or "whore" or "slut" and even take it as a term of endearment from boys. Discrimination? No. Degrading? Only from my perspective, apparently.

Census Bureau stats are always interesting.

Men and women are equal but different.

In society today I do think women seem to have alot more to put up with than men. It's much more difficult for a woman to get a career as say, an engineer or architect, than it is for a man. Women go through much more pressure to look beautiful than men do. And if you look at it from the physical sense, women have alot more to go through than men. Pregnancy, giving birth, pms.... Before you say pms isn't that bad wait until you have to stay in bed and cannot move because you have extremely painful cramps.

I do think it's wrong for women to say that because they must go through much more that they are better than men. This isn't the case. If what we're working to acheive happens, the only differences between the genders will be personality traits and physical differences.

Yes, I feel we're all equal - and while men may be better at some things than women, and women may be better at some things than men, our society emphasizes the differences between men and women too much instead of focusing on the fact we are all human beings.

Men and women both face hardships, it's unfair to assume just because of somebody's sex they experience more difficulties. It really depends on the person, though as already mentioned, if you are a woman your likelyhood of being raped or sexually assaulted are higher.

Living as a biological female has allowed me to experience a lot of things, some which have made me stronger, some which have inevitabley ******** me up. Personally, one example that sticks out in my mind of when I have been discriminated against for being a woman is when a random idiot invaded my personal space, didn't get the idea when I politely told him to leave me alone, copped a feel, and acted like I was the one being rude for punching him in the face.

Yes, I know. But being female I'm bound to be a little biased. sweatdrop

Men do it, because they like being on top. Women do it, because we're sick of being on the bottom.

But really, it's because (I mentioned this in another post) our society is built on binaries. Masculine = Positive, Feminine = Negative.
Not only that, but since the dawn of civilized time there have been various ideas on what each sex is capable of. Most of this comes from various sex/role theories.
Afterall, the idea that women can think rationally is a new one, and it still has not caught on universally.
For the longest time women were not permitted to exersize (actual exersize) or particapate in any type of sports. The idea was that we were far too fragile for such things.
blah blah blah blah blah.




Bingo, we have a winner. Like I said above. Men do it, because they like being on top, and they like it when everyone knows they are on top. Women do it because we're sick of being on the bottom.



Everything has a value judgment placed on it. The trick is not to split everything up into binaries and separate the "good" from the "bad".



Ah, but you know, not so long ago it was generally held all through society (even in Science) that the men were the ones who actually make a baby, the women just carries it, but she really doesn't contribute anything. We were just the gardens for which the seed was planted.



It depends on what we're talking about here. Men are more likely to contract genetic diseases/defects/illnesses. But women have a hormonal cycle that ******** them over monthly, and then finally when menopause rolls around you can say good bye to all the calcium in your bones. Women also bear the brunt of reproduction. And these are just biological things.

Socially, women are discriminated against more than men are. There isn't a system working against men constantly.



Yep, it sucks a**.



1. I think both sexes, and all genders are similar enough that we should NOT be treating them differently.

2. Because we're all people, and some of us shouldn't get the shitty end of the stick just because the other half of us says so.

3. Oh, lets see... I don't think I really want to go into this, it's just too depressing.

Yep...

Not only that, but for a long time there was only one "sex." Women were just some mutant/reject/invalid form of men. Not really an entire sex unto themselves. I'll try and dig up some of my notes on this stuff, it's all really interesting... and sick.

eek that's disturbing