Is it harder being male or female?

[scottish]

I agree and do believe race plays a big part.

In my parent's "community" there's a lot of things boys can get away with and if a girl did the same thing it would be frowned upon. It really confuses all of my white friends why I can't do some stuff and it doesn't make sense to them whereas all my asian friend's understand why as they face similar challenges. It's kinda hard to explain things sometimes. However, I have noticed a lot of developments from 10 years ago to now so there is definitely progress and I feel I have more rights than what my female relatives did back then.

out of curiosity, stuff like what?

[Lewis]

Is that some kind of joke lol

I understand women can be prejudiced against men but in case u haven't noticed we've only recently started to be allowed the same rights as you.

"Females are just as bad if not worse"?
I'm sorry but what do u mean by this? Can u suddenly not vote? Can u suddenly not own your own property? Or if you do own ur own property but then get married, ur wife gets it? Are u not getting paid as much as us for the same job? Are being shamed for having a job because u have children u should be looking after whilst u let ur wife go out to earn the money?

I know all of these things have been solved now but that's only happened in the last hundred years or so. And I know you were only referring to the present but u will almost definitely never have it worse than we have. We've been dealt the dud hand throughout history in terms of our rights.

In a reply to the OP:
Probably equally hard being both depending on how you look at it. And we're brought up to deal with it. Like I've spent my entire life practicing to be a girl (not literally studying for it but u know what I mean). So it sucks with the whole period, pregnancy, childbirth, old stereotypes about women, etc. but you've spent your whole life learning to live with it.

I ain't talking history here. Of course women had it a lot worse back then, heck a million times worse. What I meant is that nowadays I constantly hear women talking about men saying they should be able do this or that because they're male but they can't or shouldn't because they're females--which I see more often than the likes of "women should stay in the kitchen".

And considering you basically came to the same conclusion as me when it comes to equally hard depending on everything, there's no need for the long history lesson--I'm already aware of it all and find it disgusting how it was before!

People always consider sexism as mainly to do with males being prejudice towards females, and over history this has been the case, yes. But whatever types of sexism it may be, it commonly happens to males today. Although of course, it isn't anywhere near as bad as it was for females back then--not even close.

In conclusion: I am not saying we have it worse than female history--we likely never will. I am talking about the present and only the present.

[A4R0N]

females ** that ****

[Shar]

out of curiosity, stuff like what?

Such as sleepovers, going on holiday with friends

[Kardan]

lmao! I was kidding about periods sorry if I offended! but I would like some opinions on the non physiological obstacles that each gender faces

You can tell which ones are on their period!!11 /s

Seriously though, I'd say females, purely down to pregnancy.

[Charz777]

I think pregnancy is the decider tbh And not for the childbirth, but the other 9 months of ****. Not looking forward to going to work (as a teacher) feeling like **** 24/7 for a minimum of 14 weeks. Can't beat vomiting everywhere in front of pupils.

[MKR&*42]

I think the question is too general to decide an answer. Both men and women have difficulties in life and I would almost be tempted to say it is hard being human regardless of your sex. I am a white male and I do not consider myself privileged nor do I consider myself to have an 'easy' life.

I would say your social class affects your difficulty in life more than sex.

idk i can just see this turning into feminists vs MRA thread

[Kardan]

I think the question is too general to decide an answer. Both men and women have difficulties in life and I would almost be tempted to say it is hard being human regardless of your sex. I am a white male and I do not consider myself privileged nor do I consider myself to have an 'easy' life.

I would say your social class affects your difficulty in life more than sex.

idk i can just see this turning into feminists vs MRA thread

What a difficult life you live with internet, food, clothes, clean water It's all relative at the end of the day, nobody can give a definitive answer.

[buttons]

What a difficult life you live with internet, food, clothes, clean water It's all relative at the end of the day, nobody can give a definitive answer.

what's the point having Internet, food, clothes and clean water when there are issues that make u not want to live

[Kardan]

what's the point having Internet, food, clothes and clean water when there are issues that make u not want to live

Would you not agree that you are better off with those things and your issue rather than not having those things and your issue?

For example, if I had a terminal illness and a year or so left to live, I imagine my life would be a lot easier with internet/food/clothes/water than without - I mean, it still doesn't solve your problem, and your life is still difficult, but surely it's a lot more difficult without those things.

My point really is, there's always someone worse off, no matter how "hard" we consider our lives to be.