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Anonymous asked in Social ScienceGender Studies · 9 years ago

Men and Women Superiority...please post opinions?

This has been asked a lot of time since people could talk.

Lots of studies occurred..and lead to lot of bull...which lead to more bull.

So I decided to collect them here.

First :What defines superiority?Men surely have superior sperm production vs women having superior breast milk production.So it is futile to even ask WHO IS SUPERIOR.

Second: Physical strength on average men have advantage of testosterone and this difference is added to by the women doing less strength training in general.Otherwise the difference is marginal.

Women have superior agility(Most agile person is a man ..but he has some special genetic condition and double joints...I am talking about average.)

Both of these means nothing regarding fighting.It depends on training..experience..strategy...and nerves.

Also if you take into consideration of weapons...sex really does not matter.To press the button to launch an ICBM it only takes a finger and an 86 yr old granny can kill millions.

There goes the killing power.

Now about brain. Men have bulkier brains..more grey matter..but it just brings out bull again.Do you weight computer systems to measure which is better? Regarding the function tests some studies have found 3.6 to 5 more average iq to men than women.Again bull.Iq tests were made to nullify any gender difference.This and the slight higher level of g value fail to identify the cultural and social influences of gender differences that the subjects were exposed to. Plus estrogens tend to have a depressive effect.Its obvious that these tests were done on normal world subjects where gender steriotypical roles play a lot in the mind of subjects.Men get positive and women get negative influences in general regarding their gender.

Moreover the fact that nobel prize has mostly been won by men and such gives a flawed conclusion that women are not worthy.Nobel has been given along the time when male dominance was rampant(present but declining now).Females were (still are ) discouraged in doi

Update:

I already stated about intelligence and achivements..and while I do admit men have achived more things that made to history till date I dont think it is due to any superior intelligence.Its rather due to the environment being favorable for men only to do these.Have you noticed that most big discoveries were by white men? That does not mean blacks are stupid.It only means they did not get chance.

Hellena..sorry for the typing mistakes.Maybe you would excuuse them if I say that I am typing over a tiny smartphone screen.It wont happen with a keyboard.

Update 2:

I do mean neither gender is inferior but actually my writing was in response to an article where it tried to prove men are superior so the words went that way.

I do not mean men are inferior in any way.I am a man myself.

Women are marginally different creatures...and both have slight advantage in certain things most of which again came through cultural influences.

This was the message I wanted to convey in short..

"Nobody is superior to another and you are free to do whatever you want.Dont let your gender hold you back."

Update 3:

I already stated about achivements.The society imposes certain things on a female that hinders devoting to work or research.That is not gone yet.You hardly see any female researcher caring nothing about her children while her husband feeds and dresses the child.Childcare is a tough job and most of the time the lions share oc it is done by women.Managing office and home is possible but doing research and home is tougher than you can imagine.Then again the influences during childhood are there still.It will take another generation or two.

The idea of counting intelligence on achivements if applied on blacks will lead to the false conclusion of intellectual inferiority since most posts are still white men.

For IQ I already explained that the SUBJECTS who were chosen in the study were NOT free from confounding factors of culture.

It is true that male subjects have had higher iq than female subjects by a little margin on average...this does NOT mean that they did this only because they wer

Update 4:

I already stated about achivements.The society imposes certain things on a female that hinders devoting to work or research.That is not gone yet.You hardly see any female researcher caring nothing about her children while her husband feeds and dresses the child.Childcare is a tough job and most of the time the lions share oc it is done by women.Managing office and home is possible but doing research and home is tougher than you can imagine.Then again the influences during childhood are there still.It will take another generation or two.

The idea of counting intelligence on achivements if applied on blacks will lead to the false conclusion of intellectual inferiority since most posts are still white men.

For IQ I already explained that the SUBJECTS who were chosen in the study were NOT free from confounding factors of culture.

It is true that male subjects have had higher iq than female subjects by a little margin on average...this does NOT mean that they did this only because they wer

Update 5:

The rights of every individual should be equal irrespective of anything.Thats seperate issue.This issue is about equal importance and equality of intellect which I think needs no more reasonings.

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  • FlyingSaucers
    Lv 5
    9 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    Firstly, to Hellena...don't criticise someone's typing with grammar like that. "Take part of" doesn't make sense; take part *in*, perhaps.

    I'm confused by this need to prove which gender is better, its childish and petty and it worries me that people care! I understood your argument, and I get that you're trying to say neither gender is superior, and I'm inclined to agree. Men and women are different, there will always be innate differences that we can't change no matter what, like the fact that men are physically stronger and larger than women.

    Its complete rubbish that we have seen hardly any female achievement since women have been "free"...there is achievement everywhere, just because it doesn't always change the world it doesn't mean its irrelevant. 50 Shades of Grey (a book I have no interest in reading but still) has become the best selling book, and has broken records for how many copies flew off the shelves. Written by a female writer. Its been closely compared to Harry Potter, which also flew off the shelves and was also written by a female. The works of the Bronte's have been highly regarded throughout history, and like George Elliot, back when they first started writing, they were believed to be men (they had to go by different names in order to achieve, as their literature wouldn't have been taken seriously if it was known they were female) and the works of Austen, the Bronte's, George Elliot etc have gone down as classics.

    The current UK poet laureate, whom I have actually met and sat in a group discussion with, is the first female poet laureate (the poet chosen by the queen). I actually sat and listened to her tell a story of when she was appointed poet laureate; she went to visit the grave of Wordsworth, and shouted "I've just been made poet laureate, and I'm a girl!" That is a HUGE achievement. And that's just a few of the literary achievements of women. So to whoever it was that said we still haven't had any female accomplishments...my advice to you would be; take your head out of your a$$ and grow up. You won't get anywhere in life if you continually whinge about feminists and male superiority and all that crap. No one cares! We're not equal, never will be, but lets be honest, things aren't so bad right now!

  • ┼Vincent The Rogue┼
    Lv 5
    9 years ago

    You seem more intent on proving that men are not superior rather than that neither gender is inferior(if that makes sense to you) it's not wrong mind you but interesting how you word your arguements.

    Dictated but not read,

    Vincent

  • Ellie
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    I don't think you should take part of that discussion when you can't even type properly.

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