I think there are equal issues for both sides. You will see on the polls though that either gender thinks the other has it easier, because they've probably never been the other gender.
Men are told to be stoic, can't get things for free, are dismissed on terms of sexual harassment and abuse from women (if they are brave enough to admit it) etc.
However, women deal with child birth and a harder chance of being promoted due to the chance they might get pregnant. They also deal with higher positions being male dominated.
On top of this, societal pressures seem to be pretty even for both but as a woman - I've always felt them more. In school, especially, everything seemed to be about having big back etc... whereas I didn't hear much about boys unless they were particularly overweight. And even then, not much. However I can never be sure.
To rephrase the question, I generally think good-looking people have it easier in life, regardless of gender.
They don't have it easy cause girls have menstrual cycles,
they go through Childbirth , There is lot Single Mothers who
raise their kids , There is Single Moms hold jobs down plus
come home to take care of their kids after the babysitter
leaves or she picks them up at daycare. Than she has to
help their kids with educational things. Yes Moms have a
full schedule i know cause my late Mom had a full schedule
and there was only two of us me and my sister so yes things
were hard for us all , my Mom had us kids in school plus
going out to babysit to make a living my Dad was never at
home he would go to his Mother's house or to his Friends
house yes life was rough road and there was no bed of
roses for my Mom ( late ) .
Life is only as hard as you make it. Yes, there will be roadblocks, but it's how you handle the situation that determines how difficult it will be to live.
I believe that. Just like I also believe that it's how one answers this specific question that gives away how they perceive and go through life.
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Go back before the women's rights movmenet, and women had it worse than men. WAY worse. However, they mobilized, got active, fought for their rights, and now have more freedom.
Men, as a culture, have yet to go through the same liberating phase to free them from their own self-imposed gender restrictions as well as overthrowing the gender-restrictions placed on them by women.
This isn't to say that women don't still face issues caused by sexism, but that they've continued to tear down the walls of sexism that have laid in their way. I think we've hit a point to where, although there are still walls of sexism to be torn down on women's behalf, there's more to tear down on the behalf of men.
While men have *tried* to have a similar rights movement, this has resulted in a mess known as the "Male Rights Activists". Hypothetically, a rights movement for men is just what they need to address that convincts men ten times as frequently as women, address the 'disposable man' culture among some more predatory women, address the concerns of men being raped and the damage of false rape accusations, ability of men to be respected as caretakers as much as women are, and much more.
In practice, however, many men of the more toxic variety used Male Rights Activissm groups as a springboard to fight AGAINST ending sexism. Instead of being the second wave of humanity being freed from sexism, many MRAs tried to tighten the shackles.
Now, granted, there are MRAs that tried to release the shackles of sexism as well; similar to how among feminists there are those who want an end to sexism despite the 'man-hater' feminists who just want to oppress men.
That said, I have spent time in both groups, and I notice the ratios are different. Among feminists, I'd say roughly a quarter are man-haters, while the other three quarters actually want an end to sexism for both men and women.
Among MRAs, I'd say it's more 50/50.
And neither group seems very good at policing their more toxic members.
But, basically this results that men's efforts to throw off sexism has been much less effective than women's efforts.
I'd say men have it harder in America, but easier in the rest of the world
Women only scholarships
Women only schools
Women test higher in school, get better grades, go to college more, succeed more in education
Insurance rates for women is less
Women get preferential treatment due to their gender in the hiring process
Women get into bars / clubs free
Women get preferential treatment for demands men couldn't make as customers to a business (my x% coupon is X weeks expired)
women "try" to commit suicide more but fail less than men
Dating for women is more or less effortless
Guys buy free drinks / food and entertain you while you sit back and enjoy yourself
Genders are equal until the bill comes
In divorce you take half of what the guy owns
child birth is 9 months of hell but you come out with a stronger bond with your child that no one (not even the dad) can ever have
Being a stay at home mom is ok but a stay at home dad is looked down upon
somehow being a stay at home mom is one of the most celebrated jobs on the planet, while oil rig workers get nothing for scraping their dead coworker off the platform
sentencing for crimes is greatly reduced
women's prison / jail is a joke compared to its counterpart
the court and law sides with you on any accusation you make because of your gender
When a guy calls the cops on you for domestic abuse, you somehow still send the guy away in cuffs with irrefutable evidence you did something to him upon no retaliation on his part
people listen to your problems and help you through them
talking about your gender is ok while bringing anything up about men is somehow oppression of women
News, TV, social media, etc. has endlessly promoted how great you are and how horrible men are
women can do everything men can do and better
women are smarter than men
women live longer than men
women are the first off a sinking ship, along with your kids (sorry dad!)
when in danger, women are protected while men are expected to be protectors
women aren't expected to be the bread winners in a relationship
being able to blame their outburst or change in character on hormones while men have their hormone but get no sympathy when theirs flairs up
the cons of being a woman?
you have to worry about getting mugged, raped and murdered walking in a city at night while men only have to worry about being mugged or murdered
women have cramps / flows every month
controlling parents?
being each other's own worst enemy
sexual harassment / abuse (which can be solved immediately but for some reason women fear going to the police and solving the issue)
being drugged at a bar by a shady guy
women can't see how good they have it until one day it gets taken away
women are the easiest targets for social media apps and other various social skinner boxes
not sure why this argument is still ongoing. when you break it down the answer is obvious but irrational people don't like to look at reason
I don't think women have it easier than men, but men don't have easy lives either.
Difficulty of being a woman:
- Periods
- Painful childbirth and pregnancies
- Sexism in many countries. E. g. in Middle-eastern and African ones
- Physically weaker than men on average. Therefor easier violence target
- Lower payment
- Higher expectations to look beautiful and follow the beauty standards
- Worrying about unwanted pregnancy
- Have to sit down to pee
Difficulty of being a man:
- Crying and showing emotions are often seen as socially unacceptable
- Have to prove the masculinity for acceptance in some societies
- Less likely to be taken seriously if violence or rape victim
- More likely to be imprisoned or commit suicide
- More dangerous and harder jobs
- Although there's less pressure on looking good, men still wants to look good and it's harder for a man to look handsome than a woman to look beautiful
- Worrying about unwanted impregnation and not having a say in abortion
- Sensitive testicles
Men and women are different and they are not equal.
Certain responsibilities and difficulties make a man a man.
Both face difficulties.
Men have to be bread winners and they do difficult jobs by working in the construction industry or the army
Nowadays, both men and women work in the factories including pregnant women.
Women give birth and raise children.
Both are important for the world, just like both mother and father are important for the child.
It was so difficult to read the answers
There is so much hate and bitterness
This is becoming a woman hating site
I couldn't read those bitter comments for more than two minutes
Why can't we just get long, respect each other and be sensitive towards each other?
Why can't women behave like ladies and men like gentlemen?
I am really disappointed.
It seems like everyone is miserable and bitter in this site and ungrateful too.
Are there any men on this site who genuinely respect women?
So what if women have it easier, men shouldn't be jealous, and men also want their mothers, sisters, wives and daughters to have easier.
People are so jealous nowadays
I have a request - don't ask a question like this again, people post vulgar comments
Just having to wear those high heel shoes 👠 makes a women’s life tougher. Not joking. The things you must do to meet society’s expectations of beauty if she chooses to... having a monthly cycle, that seems bad... the whole child birth thing... it’s harder to go pee... especially at large events... on the flip side;
You have a hoo haa, a vagina, which means you rule the world. At least as far as heterosexual males go... then there is the whole giving life, being able to breast feed and bond at that next level a man will never know... and no one can surprise you years later by informing you the child isn’t really yours. That the child is the product of an affair. That will never happen to a woman. You don’t have to buy your own drinks if you don’t want to... guys will buy you tons of other stuff, like cars and jewelry. I know this because I have a much younger girlfriend and she doesn’t even have to work it to get stuff out of me. She walks in and my wallet flys open and money falls out, just like it did for my daughters all of whom I adore...
So there are pros and cons either way.
I am seeing a they don't from girls. Let me put it this way, relationship wise, they are in control as rightly they should be, an oopsy for a guy is a broken condom and a oopsy for a girl is a baby in her belly. You kind of have to meet the right guy. But But But,
A sexy guy that walks into a hotel, may or may not get any action
A sexy girl that walks into a hotel will have someone hit on her at least once that day if not more.
It is part of the girls burden, she is attractive and as such, she has to learn how to deal with being stared at by guys on a daily basis, a real pain. But with that comes choice. I think just about any guy that is single will take any girl that will take him on but girls won't take on guys that easy. Overall, I think that is where part of this is. I know, not all girls have it that way but I think girls carry the majority of the weight for selection.
Second part, girls can choose to have their own kid, its theirs, they can go to a clinic and that's their kid, or in a relationship with a kid break up happens, the kid goes with mommy.
Third part, support, girls have a lot of support from different places. That are not available to men. and they can openly express their emotions too
Fourth Part, girls while in society have had a hard history, now they have woman's day and the celebration of women. Jobs want more women now. and Women are taking on more popular roles. Women are preferred in society now a days.
Let me address this, pregnancy, periods, being a mother, emotions, being a sexual object, makeup, clothes... not being able to protect yourself as much as a man. I get it. But overall, I think relationships are the most important and that is where girls have choice and guys just have to wait until a girl picks them
I suspect that, averaged out, men and women are pretty equal, though we are definitely NOT the same. Our advantages and disadvantages are very different, and of course you can point to individual examples of one guy or one girl for whom the advantages are working strongly in their favor (and examples of the opposite).
We each have struggles that few of the opposite sex will ever appreciate, and we each have advantages that we take for granted.
That's why I don't complain - it's a waste of time - but I do try to explain to people the perspective of the opposite sex. Having real understanding of what the opposite sex is going through goes a long way towards improving the relationships between us. And we could all do a better job of that.
I think we get away with some things. I've heard of this sentence a couple of times, "You are a girl you don't have to worry about getting your shit together."
Like with having a job. Girls can resort to being a stay at home wife if they want. Because that was ok back in the day. Most women dont want a life like that. They want purpose and they want a career. A lot of guys now want a girl who works and helps with the bills. Some guys still want the old school stay at home mom. But women always have that option to work or not unless their husband/boyfriend is totally against it.
I am a male single parent and FT worker / own venture owner too , to be fair there are considerably more single mothers , however single fathers get less support , deal with sexism , as the default belief = men are all pedos / rapists in waiting and just plain useless without a smart woman saving the day , had a lot of hostility from mothers. At my workplace , partnered mothers get a lot more leeway than I do. Single no ties men are often socially isolated @MusicMayhem nails this with his excellent summary , women tend to have much greater and well developed support networks , they always have someone to turn to , men are on their own in life in most cases. However , females have their own crosses to bear , being a father of a tween daughter is one steep learning curve at times.
Both have difficulties but if I had to choose I'd say women have a slightly better quality of life. This comes down to the great importance of social connection in life. Women are much less likely to be socially isolated and devoid of love (friends/family as well as intimate) then men are. Men are much less appreciated in society. We have to work much harder to develop and maintain relationships with friends and potential lovers so we go through more extended periods of loneliness and depression.
I like how most women say oh it’s more equal and that both genders have different struggles, while men on the other hand say they have it harder. Who’s scared of walking down the street because they are scared they could easily get sexually assaulted or kidnapped, oh that’s me. Who has to deal with discrimination at work because they are a woman? So many. Some countries still don’t have women’s right just look at the middle east countries. Women were only allowed to drive a car last year, what is that? I get that men are scared of being emotional etc because society says they should be strong for women but we don’t live in that society anymore. Oh and who’s the one who pushed you out of their genitals oh that’s right it was a women, your mother. We have different struggles, end of story.
Girl I don’t know what life you’ve been living or been given or brought up with but excuse you!
One persons experience shouldn’t not be account for all and this is where people then take it upon themselves to judge.
Be careful what you write, say etc and make sure you express that this is your opinion based on your experiences and your life ONLY.
Mind you your only very young and still have a lot of life to live to learn.
Life in general is not easy. Not for one gender or the other. Life is a personal journey and in that personal journey you go through good bad and tough situations. One may have an easier smoother nicer journey with a lot less speed humps or hurdles to climb over. But life in itself is not easy from the time you are born till the time you exit the world.
Sorry this very much touched a nerve with me and I had to say something as I don’t feel this statement should be put out in the world in this way.
(talking about the US only)
men are expected of more. they are suppose to take care of a lot of things and are expected to make a lot of money. they have to be strong and are usually seen as the perpetrator in many situations
women have to go through a lot of other suffering. they have periods, childbirth, and are usually the one stuck with the child when they guy leaves. they are much more commonly sexually abused and though the successful suicides for men are greater, the actually attempts for women are more.
this shows me that BOTH struggle and neither has it easier
Socially I believe they do. I know many handsome men with likable personalities who struggle to make friends or find love or at least sex. I’ve never known a beautiful woman who has no friends or struggles to get laid, no matter how irritating/rude they are.
They have sexier options in clothes as well compared to men; it shocks me that not enough of them take advantage of this. They could easily have people like me bow down to them if they’re in dresses and tights, yet many still go out in leggings, hoodies and sneakers instead, somehow thinking they’re all that & more 🤢🤢🤢
I mean it is hard to say because you can only be one sex at a time. But I think women don't really know what having something bad happen to them is. I mean I see women making a big deal out of things that aren't really a big deal. Like to women someone getting sexually assaulted is a BIG deal. like "A guy touched my rear end!!!" like it's a big deal. While men get into fights and get the shit beat out of them. And they consider that a big deal. I mean getting punched in the head 25-30 times is way more painful than someone touching you. I mean just sounds a little chicken shit to make such a big deal about someone "Touching" you. Lol. Like it hurt or something. I mean getting punched 25-30 times and kicked and knee'ed in the head is like 1000 times more painful.
It depends what area in your life it's referring to or getting at, but I will admit, I did hear this response somewhere, and it really angered me, pissed me off, the guy said:
"Boo fucking hoo. We also don't have to go through child birth and we're strong as fuck. Testosterone gives us ambition + mental and physical strength that MANY (not all) women are lacking. Being a man has many benefits and with great power comes great responsibility. Stop crying about it and get your fucking shit together"
Both genders suffer with things that the other will never experience. I don’t think anyone has it easier than anyone because each gender has difficult things they have to deal with.
There are really too many personal factors - especially, genetic physical and mental health, where you are born/environment and things like history of child abuse, family finances, race, sexual orientation, etc to say one sex has it easier than the other.
Depend on the society. I don’t think that you can that women have it easier in Saudi Arabia because of the stupid rules, that forbid them to drive a car, or going out without being with someone. Being a beautiful woman in a poor country can be more a curse than a blessing because of the mount of perverts you will attract.
no way. women have to deal with monthly cycles and all that stuff, breast pain and body discomfort all the time, get pursued by men they don't want, feel insecurity... spit out a watermelon 9mon-18yrs of kid rearing (each one), hormonal swings through life, they aren't as strong to fight... get abused, many sexually. end up working, caring for kids, and taking care of aging parents...
There's some benefits and not saying men's role easy, but I'd say women have it harder.
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