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I think people will answer differently based on their enviroment, but do you think it's easier to be a boy or a girl? I grew up in the South, and I think it's easier to be a boy.

I think people will answer differently based on their enviroment, but do you think it's easier to be a boy or a girl? I grew up in the South, and I think it's easier to be a boy.
I dont know, depends on where you are in the world I think.

I can see how it would be different coming from the south of the US, or a non-westernised country, but anywhere else I think its easier to be a girl.

Depends. Women can have an easier ride if they so desire - they can be housewives, which is a very important role but not, let's be honest, as challenging as many things the breadwinner has to do.

On the other hand, it's much harder for guys to get away with deviance, having such rigid expectations. Whilst women who do wish to enter the business world find it to be harder than for guys.

It really depends on too many variables to say one way or the other.

Both have drawbacks and both have positives. I don't think you can really judge either one as easier.

And I'm a girl if that makes any difference.

I'm a girl and I don't think it's easier either way.

Girls have to deal with PMS mood swings, tampons, and cramps. We also have to deal with being thought weaker, are more likely to contract STDs, have more of the burden in the case of accidental pregnancy, and while I am not educated enough to tell you specifics, I know there are feminist issues that are still around.

Boys have to sit around being confused by their girlfriends' PMS mood swings, are expected take masculine roles where girls have more leeway to go both ways, and have a mess to deal with when they jack off. They also get blamed for many of the feminist issues regardless of whether the particular boy in question is chauvinist, indifferent, or even feminist himself.

Even though I am male in a pretty much equal society, I think it's got to be harder to be female because of one eternal truth: periods.

So, so far:

*Most boys think boys have it easier than girls
*Most girls don't think either sex has it easier
*Most people think boys have it easier

I used to think that girls had it easier than guys.
Yesterday, in an emergency, I had to drive my friend to a gynocologist.
She was suffering from what she described as "A cyst the size of a golfball" in her vagina.
I no longer think that way.

easy to be a boy, but you get what you deserve

boys have it easier than girls. in the top 100 companies in the world, the massive majority of the directors and executives are male. women are under paid, under represented, under valued, and suffer daily for the crime of being female. this is all without mentioning the pain suffering and trauma of childbirth.

Skewing poll results rocks!

Yeah... the whole menstruation thing and child birth? Girls have it harder hands down.

I'm glad I don't have to go through that. :/

I grew up in the south (Alabama), but my family is rooted in MA (where i live now). If you're a girl in AL, you have to wear frilly (as in borderline petticoat things that are impossible to wear when you play outside as a kid), and if you don't, you can't fit in. This goes for predominantly WASPy suburbia in the south, and continues through high school. . .but I agree that it depends on whether your society is patriarchal, matriarchal, or neither.

I live in a very patriarchal society, I think it is much easier to be a boy, which is what I am. Damn, I hate this country.

:headbang:

I think it is easier to be what you are. If you try to change, you would soon realize that it is not that easy on the other side either :D

Skewing poll results rocks!
You silly fool, you voted for EVERY option!

Depends. Women can have an easier ride if they so desire - they can be housewives, which is a very important role but not, let's be honest, as challenging as many things the breadwinner has to do.

On the other hand, it's much harder for guys to get away with deviance, having such rigid expectations. Whilst women who do wish to enter the business world find it to be harder than for guys.

It really depends on too many variables to say one way or the other.

I disagree about the housewife comment... Being a housewife deals with incredible stress. Having to rely on a husband to survive, doing almost all housework, raising kids, and all of these things with little to no thanks.

I'm a girl and I think being a male would be easier because as someone pointed out ever so truthfully: Periods.

Oh and pregnancy too. That's a biggy! What is there that a male has to go through of that magnitude?

I'm a girl and I think being a male would be easier because as someone pointed out ever so truthfully: Periods.

That's the sad truth...

Oh and pregnancy too. That's a biggy! What is there that a male has to go through of that magnitude?

Well, there are kidney stones... But, both sexes get those, so it really doesn't count.

The question's to broad. It's probably easier to be Paris Hilton than Richard Jewel. On the other hand, it's probably easier to be Brad Pitt than Susan Smith.

So I think it depends upon the specific cirumstances.

Both have drawbacks and both have positives. I don't think you can really judge either one as easier.

And I'm a girl if that makes any difference.

I agree with you... and i'm a girl too... we must be twins :fluffle:

personnally as a boy I think it is easier to be a girl.

if a girl marries she can stay home and not do too much and no-one has any problems.

if a boy marries and stays home then he will get ridiculded by everyone for being "weak" "a sissy" and for being "lazy"

i think its easier being a girl because, unfortuantly, people expect less of them

personnally as a boy I think it is easier to be a girl.

if a girl marries she can stay home and not do too much and no-one has any problems.

if a boy marries and stays home then he will get ridiculded by everyone for being "weak" "a sissy" and for being "lazy"

i think its easier being a girl because, unfortuantly, people expect less of them


Wow! :eek: You know nothing. People expect a lot out of you men but there is a lot expected out of women too. We are "expected" to be ladylike. We are expected to be the one to clean the house and cook the meals....even if we work full time just like our male counterparts. We have a period once a month. That is about 5 to 7 days where we bleed and feel like we have the flu because the cramps are so bad. We are expected to be the ones to take a birth control pill (why don't men have to take one. I know you have condoms but so do women). We are expected to go through nine months of carrying a child only to have it come out in a way that most men could not handle (Men think of the worst bout of constipation you have ever had. Quadruple the size of what finally came out and you won't even be close to what we have to go through). So, as you can see, we have a LOT that is expected of us! I still stand by my original statement "I think it is easier to be what you are. If you try to change, you would soon realize that it is not that easy on the other side either" .

I'd much rather be a lesbian... :p

It used to be better for males than females, but I think this is changing. Now it is hip to be a feminist. Sure many executives are males, but how young are executives? Most are old men who have worked all of their lives to achieve the high position. Have you seen a picture of William Gates? He looks much older than he is, because he worked all the time when he was younger(overwork leads to premature aging).

Yes, when most executives started working women were mainly housewives but now it is very different. In my opinion girls are expected to do less than boys to achieve higher grades. And women who wants to be cops don't have to run as fast...

I think that some seem to go from a society dominated by men to a society dominated by women. When a politician reaches a position because of their sex rather than their beliefs and experience is odd. When the big eastward expansion of the European Union happened, some were concered because some of the countries have almost only male politicians. DOES IT MATTER???

It does depend where you live, but here(Sweden) I am concerned with the fact that every single politician claims to fight for women, and a damned feminist party is created. By the way, this party will only eject the current social democratic government and install a moderate-conservative government(they'll steal voters from the left, but not from the right)

As I said I believe in equality but not in starting to make laws reversing the situation. In a hundred years men might be oppressed by women :) .

By the way, women live longer. That's got to count for something.

I'm a boy, and I feel it's easier to be a boy. Sociological issues aside, women have to deal with the biological issues of menustration, pregnancy, and complications in the genitalia [men don't really have to clean up their genitalia after urinating] that men generally never have to deal with. Socio-culturally, women oftentimes have to deal with systematic oppression and bigotry in a "male-dominated" world. This isn't quite as bad in the Industrialized West, but it can be pretty terrible in other parts of the world.

Don't get me wrong. Guys have problems too - biologically, notsomuch, but culturally and psychologically, we're just as saddled with 10,000 years of tradition as the other half of the race.

I think people will answer differently based on their enviroment, but do you think it's easier to be a boy or a girl? I grew up in the South, and I think it's easier to be a boy.

Absolutely. It's much easier to be either a boy or a girl. Trying to be both at once would just be too confusing, and expensive.

Absolutely. It's much easier to be either a boy or a girl. Trying to be both at once would just be too confusing, and expensive.

Witty.

Now, I agree, in most the sex with whom the advantage lies depends on where you are. However, I think one thing is universal that makes it easier to be a woman: No matter where on this planet you are, A woman who wants sex has it 10^99999 times easier getting it than a man who wants it.

Just my VERY manly opinion. :D

Johnny is a boy
He wants to be a girl
More than anything
In the whole wide world
When he's up
And able
Right off the
Operating table
Where they cut it off,
He'll be a girl

It's an old cliche
Heard it all his life
Grass is greener on
The other side

Shawna is a girl
She wants to be a boy
Just the thought of it
Fills her with such joy
When she's up
And able
Right off the
Operating table
Where they sew it on,
She'll be a boy

It's an old cliche
Heard it all her life
Grass is greener on
The other side

They'll never
Be happy
They'll never
Feel satisfied
Cuz grass is greener on
The other side.

- The Judy's

you forgot the option, "I'm a bastard and I'll click all of the options because I can" option

but if you want my honest opinion, I think it's easier to be boy, and I 'm a male.

I wouldn't want to go through pregnancy, periods, menopause, hotflashes, and breastcancer (at least in my family, all of my female relatives have died from it, least on my moms side, and my sister is too young to really be worried about it, bu tmore than likely will have it.). and plus high heels, those things are the devil........not that I know from experience, they just seem.......evil

If I were a girl it'd be alot harder to pick up hot chicks, but it'd be nice to get free drinks all the time.

Why is it that it seems to be the experienced posters who just tick all the options in the poll?

Some silent protest unknown to newer members? Or just people being jackasses?

When it comes to working, I think boys definitely have it easier. They don't have to put up with (as much) with sexist people higher up. Like my sister's Civil Engineering lecturers, who says all the time "No offence to the girls, but..." then says something offensive about women and doing engineering. It's so stupid, but she has to put up with that shit.

Why is it that it seems to be the experienced posters who just tick all the options in the poll?

Some silent protest unknown to newer members? Or just people being jackasses?
Wow, I got called experienced, and I think it's a combo of both

I find that being a boy comes naturally whereas being a girl requires uncomfortable amounst of tape and tissues.

If I were a girl it'd be alot harder to pick up hot chicks, but it'd be nice to get free drinks all the time.


The gay gay gay took my baby away and she has been knee deep in 'tang ever since.

im a guy, and im chosing other. i've never been a girl, so i cant really say which is easier to do.

Why are multiple answers allowed? I think that almost everything is covered in the options. (Of course something like "I'm both..." is missing ;) ).
I have chosen the option before the last because I'm generally sceptic about the existance of two clearly defined sexes. And of course both of them have their problems including stereotype gender roles. :rolleyes:
(But not belonging to one of them isn't easy either...)

Why is there an option "i am neither i think it is easier to be..."?

Can someone explain to me how you could be neither?

Why is there an option "i am neither i think it is easier to be..."?

Can someone explain to me how you could be neither?
Perhaps intersexuals or people who don't think they fit into any of those patterns...

i guess so.

It just scared and confused me for a while there.

Remembering the different way my brothers were treated compared to me while growing up, and the male female battles as I went through my teens, I'd say boys have it easier.

Replying to a post way back on page 1 or 2 ... there has been no birth control pill developed yet for guys - the hormones are a lot harder to separate out, I believe. Trust me, though, some of us would love to be able to take one, for the same reason women like it - because it gives you more control (yeah, there's condoms, but there's a difference).

How can one tell? I realise the differences between the two, but I cannot say whether being one is more difficult than the other...

Looks like agreement is almost universal that it's harder to be female.

I have chosen the option before the last because I'm generally sceptic about the existance of two clearly defined sexes.

The vast majority of humans comfortably fit into the biological definitions of male or female.

Wow, I got called experienced, and I think it's a combo of bothLol, well I've been here longer! Didn't realise that... Post count can be very deceptive... :p

There are way too many factors to consider (where/when you live, upbringing etc.) to answer that question.

Looks like agreement is almost universal that it's harder to be female.


The vast majority of humans comfortably fit into the biological definitions of male or female.
Well of course you can simply search for XX or XY and they usually determine it quite well in which category someone belongs. But there are hermaphrodites for example (who are usually raised in one of these ways but not always content with ist) and even if you don't go to this extreme there are many "male" women and "female" men.

Well of course you can simply search for XX or XY and they usually determine it quite well in which category someone belongs. But there are hermaphrodites for example (who are usually raised in one of these ways but not always content with ist) and even if you don't go to this extreme there are many "male" women and "female" men.
I am aware that hermaphrodites exist. I said "the vast majority" not all.

I know that there are many "male" women and "female" men. I said biological, not societal. Gender roles are not natural. Societies have only imposed them on us for 30,000 years.

I am aware that hermaphrodites exist. I said "the vast majority" not all.

I know that there are many "male" women and "female" men. I said biological, not societal. Gender roles are not natural. Societies have only imposed them on us for 30,000 years.
Well there are people who look like the other sex usually does so it is partly biological, too.
And gender roles are of course constructed by society but they have to be considered as well if you want to answer "Do You Think it's Easier to be a Boy or a Girl?" properly.

I agree with you... and i'm a girl too... we must be twins :fluffle:

Indeed :fluffle:

There's also the fact that great minds think alike ;)

Why is it that it seems to be the experienced posters who just tick all the options in the poll?


Jewish/Communist conspiracy. :shifty: