What do you think is more difficult, being a man or being a woman?

Question

Just wondrin', do girls really mean it when they say that being a woman is a lot more difficult... I mean, I'm pretty sure they've never tried being a man... Same with the boys, do we men really can say that we had an easier life than girls do??

Think about how men are treated... compare it to how girls are being looked at such as "social status"...

Consider the natural occurrences among girls and with the boys, such as "monthly period", "wet dreams"...

Also, consider the common activities of men and women such as "basketball", "household chores", and many more...

Note: Your answers might sound too disturbing...ü

Answer 1

First of all, nobody can judge somebody without walking a mile in his/her shoes. Yeah, you're right, being a girl really can't make things worse. Hey, men have a lot more tough things to cope up with, like trying hard to show machismo while girls can just sag around being girly. No one can really say about someone until you'll be him/her.

Answer 2

I will try not to "shock you" with my answer. I am a man in my 50's, I have been working full time since I was 13. ( 2 part timejobs, only through College). I have worked hard and am now working hard. Many hours, sleeples nights, have strugled, have fought to keep my way of life, have won more then have lost.
Yet,
been a woman I personally believe it would be much more difficult then been a man. (wet dreams will go away when responsobillities of life take over, trust me ! :) When my wife almost died while carrying our last baby, I chose to continue working, bring her home from the Hospital so I can take care of her, admin her meds and I mean "shots", and all whew...! that was horrible, help the little ones with home work, clean the house, do the laundry, go grocery shoping, cook, attend PTA meetings...(never had the time before), and finally let my bussines go astray because I felt and still feel that was what I should do. "My family first"...as my wife always says....Anyway I am saying all this to prove my point and nothing else. You know what was the Kicker? not going grocery shoping after all were finally asleep (runing to the store and back), neither was the fact that I was doing laundry for 5 people at 1 in the morning LOL,(had to learn the hard way, you know), the kicker was, ha, ha, ...that when I was all done with cleaning, vacumimg, staighten up the downstairs and went to contimue to clean upstairs, my little ones would "just trash" the downstairs, and I had to start all over again, find time to read to them, play with them, walk with them plus all of the above.
Man, I tell you, when my wife was doing and is doing now all of the above, somehow this woman had everything done by 6pm when I came home "tired" from work. supper ready, house spotless. She always smiles and asks, :"how was your day"...and then I would blabber on..."about my day'...never having a clue !!! what was her day like.
Yes, There are a lot of differences and strengths between the 2 sexes, in life, in sports and etc....
Finally to the bottom line here.!
I take been a man anytime !! been a woman?
No thank you !!!!
nuff said... :)

Answer 3

This the most difficult question that I have tried to answer on yahoo answers. I was married at 22 in 1957 and had four children. 3 girls and 1 boy. By the way the boy was a piece of cake to raise. The girls each had their own temperamental idiosyncrasy's. We lived the life of the Brady Bunch. It was good. I was a stay at home mom and my husband brought home the pay check. Life was easy for both of us.

Times are different now. It's as if everyone is just trying to muddle through life. Divorce, single family parents. Lifestyle is different. Everyone wants what their parents worked years to have and they want it right now. I think it must be a struggle for both men and women.

When women burned their bra's I thought it was mostly so they would be treated equal in the work place. Now they have gone too far with it. If a guy wants to give respect to a gal he can't find many to respect. I may be looking at it from too far away because of my age. I can stay at home (my sanctuary) and can't quite relate to today's life style.

Seems everyone lives in the fast lane. Nothing remains the same. Maybe we can just call it progress and be thankful we live in the good ole USA.

Answer 4

I think if I was a man I would struggle with bringing home the wages and working really hard to get them and leaving my kids behind at home but that is because I am a woman.
More is expected of a woman. Men ONLY have to bring home their wages. Women have to work nowadays on top of looking after the kids, the school runs, paying the bills, the homework, the P.E kits, having their friends home for tea, washing, ironing, cooking, cleaning, putting the toys away, reading the bedtime story, listening to problems, tidying the bedrooms, the shopping etc. If we move house, we arrange the mortgage, deal with the estate agent and the solicitor, I did all this plus the decorating and my partner didn't drive. Then he lost his job. Actually what did he do?
Some people don't believe in PMT but I do suffer with it. Sometimes it makes me tearful and sometimes it makes me tired and irritable and other times it makes me bad tempered and arguementative. How did it affect my partner really? Well he just ignored me.
Wet dreams...I dream enough about both sexes especially at certain times of the month.
Men still only have to just bring home the wages.

Answer 5

I think it harder to be a woman, being a man is easy i am not complicated or worry about every eventuality, i also don't have to deal with an intense level of emotion that clouds my judgment and nullifies my logical thought process... not only that but the world is my urinal....

being a man is great and most guys can relate to other guys without so much as a hiccup no b!tchiness, the odd fight here and there and its over.

in fact men can rock up at the same party with the same shirt on and be best friends by the end of the night as opposed to avoiding each other and staying at the opposite end of the room the entire evening.

the society pressure of being a woman i recon must be tough... where very little is expected of us guys, so its easy to impress.

good luck ladies and have a good one guys!

Answer 6

Hah, sure some of them do have a lot of cramps, and crazy moodswings during their period. And when they get pregnant, they have to suffer from morning sickness and eventually the act of the birth itself.

However, women get some slack from men, who are extra careful not to offend and attribute sniping and yelling and crying to female hormones. I mean, if a man thought that the woman was naturally like that, he'd have another thought about the relationship, that's for sure.

Men do not get any slack- while we have hormones too, it is not acceptable for us to let us be ruled by them. Still, it happens, and then suddenly people are shocked about infidelity, which is pretty natural for a man to feel inclined to.

So, lets summarize it- If you are a woman, you might have moodswings often- but they are forgiven, while the men who are affected by their hormones are not.

Answer 7

I think both genders have got their own hardships, girls have less freedom, a have lower status in society..im sorry but its true, it is a man´s world...girls are usually the ones to give up their careers to be a mom...they´re underappreciated for all the work they do at home...housework aint easy and i know its easy in comparison to hauling rocks everyday..but being a housewife is a 24 hour job, you dont get paid, and sometimes you regret your decision to give up your dreams...its hard. But guys have got it hard too, they´ve got this constant pressure to be successful in whatever they choose to do, people dont even talk bout it, its just like..self-explainatory that a guy simply has to a job and all that..and in that aspect a girl has it easier. However this is all from a general perspective, so in my opinion, i believe that everyone has got it hard and in different ways....and being a girl, i would like to say girls have got it tougher, but i really cant say which one has it harder than the other.... honestly though, i would prefer all the hardships of being a guy as oppose to the lack of freedom presented to me, just because of my gender. But thats just me anyway. lol.

Hope this helps. Thanks for the interesting question. I hope you have a nice day. =)

Answer 8

Never been a man, but was a pretty macho tomboy. Does that count? (*laughter*)

My perspective. Being a boy was better, because you were allowed more freedom. As a girl, I was supposed to WANT to clean and cook and get married kinds of nonsense. However, as a boy none of that was pushed at you. When my older brother turned 16, he got a 1 a.m. curfew on non-school nights. When I turned 16, and asked about the curfew extension, I was told mine was still 11 p.m. When I asked "why", I was told because boys don't get pregnant. (Smart mouth here said, "Oh, so I can only get pregnant after 11 p.m? Good to know.")

I wasn't supposed to be good in math and science (I was). I wasn't supposed to be mechanically adept (I was). Everything I was "supposed" to want to do, didn't appeal to me. I couldn't type, sew, cook, take shorthand...I didn't like children. (*laughter*)

The laws didn't change until I was out of high school, so even though I was a major jock, I wasn't allowed to play organized sports with the guys. (The football couch actually wouldn't let the guys on the team play football with me at lunch time because..he told them and admitted it....he was afraid I'd hurt one of them.) Since the girls didn't have any "real sports" like football and baseball, I had to play basketball (not physical enough for me), or softball (none of them could hit to the outfield and I was the only one who could throw to home from the outfield).

I had a tough time as a kid, and I hated being a girl. It was like some HUGE cosmic joke, and I was the "fall guy". I became a "wild child"....I would do almost anything that was dangerous or stupid...if it was BOTH...I was first in line.

Luckily, with time and maturity, I learned that just because parents and society try to place restrictions on you, doesn't mean you have to operate totally within them.

I'm still not a "girly girl", but I don't find it necessary to prove how tough I am by jumping out of planes or racing motorcycles anymore. Besides, I'm older and it takes longer to heal now. I don't think I own one dress or skirt...I don't wear "girl shoes". I don't think I've owned ANY makeup in 15-20 years. Now, I do love to cook and sew, but I'd rather work in my yard than clean house..and I'm toying with the idea of buying broken down motorcycles and rebuilding them as a hobby.

(*shrug*) I think whether or not it's more difficult to be a boy or a girl depends strongly on the personality of the kid. For me, it was tough with the "rules" to be a girl when I was young. So, I broke the rules as a matter of course, and suffered the consequences. I do think "society" and biology pushes more responsibility at women.

My daughter was allowed to be whatever she wanted. She turned out to be a "girly girl". Go figure.

Answer 9

I think being a woman is more difficult because of the following reasons: women have labour pains, PMS, household chores and children to care for. Men don't usually have that problem.

Answer 10

Women
Biological
- acne problem
- body hair
- labour pains
- PMS
- weight issue
- bad hair days
- nails
- mood swings

Social
- have to dress to impress other women
- being single
- the men don't get it
- annoying, persistent men
- football widow

Security Issues
- muggers
- molestors
- rapists
- stalkers

Family
- household chores
- children
- mother-in-law

Misc
- high heeled shoes
- dresses
- makeup
- brassiere

Men
Biological
- more acne problems
- more unsightly body hair
- facial hair
- possibility of a receding hairline
- a generally shorter lifespan
- erectile dysfunction

Social
- ego
- have to dress to impress everyone
- being single
- the women don't get it either
- having no luck with women
- underachievement
- military service
- sucking at sports

Security Issues
- muggers
- stalkers

Family
- children
- wife
- aging parents
- breadwinner
- bills

Misc
- car
- house

Conclusion:
Nobody gets it easy.