Why are men thought to be the stronger sex, when clearly women are?

Question

I recently took my female and male cats to the vets. Guess who moaned the most and had the least done? Your right the male cat was a wimp. Suppose I needed showing how strong females really are!
Having 5 children and now being a lone parent, I suppose doing my degree shows the strength of a woman. Need I ask

Answer 1

Perhaps they are referring only to physical strength.

Answer 2

Hold on everybody let her feel better about herself if this is the way she wants to go about it. Her comment shows an obvious lack of confidence in herself and her little story doesn't do much to back anything up.

Like your little kitty cats, every person and every animal has different strengths and weaknesses, regardless of gender. If everyone would stop generalizing about everyone, gender, race, ect, they probably wouldn't be so bitter and feel the need to come on here talking about how much their gender is so "superior" than the other. It's immature and should be looked down upon. Women are not stronger because they can give birth or because they're more emotional, men are not stronger because they are built more powerful or think more logically. Both sexes compliment one another and that's the way it's meant to be.

Answer 3

Women are in NO WAY stronger than men. Women tend to consider a man who doesn't cry weak yet if he cries more than they like he is weak. The fact that you can have children doesn't make you strong it makes you female. If women were stronger overall you would be fighting wars. If you were stronger then you wouldn't need the government to get you ahead in the work place or give you extra money for college. And the raising of kids alone is also not a sign of strength as usually the woman does everything she can to get sole custody and alimony and child support and tax breaks for having kids and have to pay less in taxes because you have kids. If you want to see strength look at a dad who has had his kids stolen from him and his income hijacked so he can see his kids four days a month if that and have to turn around and give them back to the one who stole them and all this after being lied about in court lied to during the marriage and divorce EG " I would never do that to you they are your kids too Teehee" etc etc Women aren't stronger. When something bad happens who is expected to be strong and take action who is the one expected to give up their lives in defense of the other? Women are stronger please spare me that tripe that is just another feminist falsehood to further the goal of domination. If you tell a lie enough times people will begin to believe it.

Answer 4

Oh, my male cat moans more than my female cat, therefore, human males are weaker than human females. I can use the same argument and say "roosters are stronger than hens, therefore, human males are stronger than human females"
Oh, and having 5 children being a lonely parent and doing your degree shows YOUR strengh. Congrats, really, but that doesnt speak of a whole sex. I can lift my weight in bench press and do 10 reps with it, but that doesnt show the physical strengh of a man, just mine.
Oh, and dont come with the whole "giving birth" stupidity, because women nowadays are washed with morphine and pain killers while they give birth. If you are strong enough to bear it, why the pain killers?
Oh, and if you are refering to emotional strengh, why do you girls burst into tears when your emotions are ignored, and fight each other over a same dress, and men are always calm and supposed to keep control of their feelings?!

Answer 5

This is the worst post I have ever read. You are using cats to compare the general strength of women and men. That is not even the right species. Furthermore, "strength" has nothing to do with tolerance for pain. That would be "toughness."

So you have 5 kids and can't hold onto a man.... That shows strength? Oh wait, you have a degree and 5 kids who will grow up fatherless. That clearly proves you're strong. It also sets a great example for your children. I come from a family with six children, and my parents both have degrees. Unfortunately, they are still happily married, so I guess that proves my mom and dad are weak.

I would also be curious to see what school you attended and in what field you are working with that degree you "did." Everywhere I went to school, I learned that a command ends with a period, the contraction for "you are" is "you're," and questions end with a question mark.

Finally, men and women are equal. Using cats and a pitiful life example is not going to make your sex seem stronger.

Answer 6

Here we have an example of a woman being so stupid as to believe an inability to express oneself equates to strength.

And she compounds it by proudly claiming that being a lone parent of 5 children AND doing a degree shows her to be strong! She hasn't told us what her grades are, what degree she is doing, how her five children are doing, how much financial and material support she is leaching off the government, her parents, her friends, even the father(s) of these 5 children.

If we start asking tough questions we see that you're very dependent on others. Is that part of your definition of strength?

Answer 7

It's so easy to generalise ~ about a great many things, including the differences 'tween male n female.

Personally, on a scale of 1 - 10, I'll stand under a shower around the 7-8 mark, whereas my wife is much happier around the 4-6 mark ~ apparently making her far more sensitive than me.

I on the other hand have a 'hatred of needles puncturing my skin' (or anyone eles's) while she's ok with it - making me far more sensitive than her.

So, where does the truth lay?

Anyway, 'Stronger' is a relative term ~ I can go without sleep for 24 + hours and she flakes out at around the 12 mark. She can shop for hours - while I've had enough after about 30 minutes.

Sash.

Answer 8

Neither sex is the stronger, actually. Women who go the gym and do weights and cardio are physically stronger and fitter than men who don't but generally speaking, all other things being equal, men are physically stronger than women.

It has been scientifically proven that women (again all things being equal) have sharper sensory abilities than men. That means our 5 senses (and possibly sixth sense) is better including our night vision but the downside is women actually feel pain more than men. We do, however, produce endorphins more readily than men which probably evolved for reasons of childbirth (i.e. those women who felt less pain during labour were more likely to go on and have more children who carried the ability to produce endorphins) and therefore women's pain does not last for as long as men's.

Women also, generally, have better immune systems than men and female babies (all things being equal) survive better during their first 5 years of life than male babies. However, again the downside to this is that women are more likely to suffer autoimmune diseases in our modern, clinically clean society where the immune system isn't kept busy enough.

Women are more likely to suffer neurosis and men more likely to suffer psychosis; although the reason for this may be more to do with the masculinisation of psychosis and feminisation of neurosis in western medicine. Men are 3 times more likely to commit suicide than women, although this may be because they cannot express their emotions as much as women can in our gender divided society.

As you can see, men and women are pretty much equal. Where there is a benefit there also tends to be a cost as well. It has been shown that both sexes thrive in societies that are egalitarian and one or other sex (usually women) fare worse in societies that are gender divided.

Answer 9

Stornger sex is physicaly for men because stuies have shown that men are physically stronger even if both sexes have worked out to the fullest. WOmen are stronger emotionaly and mentally since they have to go through pain, deal with men's behavior, have children and be treated as second class citizen. I think women are strong in anyway and i give them kudos with all teh stuff tehy have to put up with. I love women.

Answer 10

Well, this is an interesting question....

Okay it isn't really, but it does demonstrate the apparent need for some people to compartmentalize and isolate into like groups and wax xenophobic. This is similar to what Hitler did in Germany in the 1930's. Women are neither better or worse than men, much like the aryan is neither better nor worse than the jew. People are people, with their own unique strengths and flaws. What gender they may be is immaterial. The sad thing is you use a forum like this in an attempt to spread silly headed ideas about gender differences that are purely subjective and un-intellectual.

If you are raising five children with this kind of thinking, I pity the poor tikes.

Answer 11

Everyone has their strenghs and weaknesses.

I have severe rheumatoid arthritis, severe tinnitus, heart, stomach, eye and many other problems too.
Ive raised my two children on my own, and kept a good clean house, meals on the table every day for them when they were at school,and then saw them through college too while being this ill, and so that must be considered as being strong ?.

My mum is strong, she's 70 just had a triple bypass and is doing great.
My son is strong, he knows he does not have the mental ability of those the same age but he fights for his rights and place in society..
My daughter is strong, 3 kids, all manor of health problems too but she faces each day with a smile on her face.

You are strong.. its all down to the person, not what sex they are ?.

Good luck with your degree.