What do you like best about being your gender and what do you find worse?

[shanshu]

Romantic, sexual or everyday life

[Screenwriter]

Not getting paid as well as a man doing the same job. Not being taken as seriously as a man. Being underestimated because I'm NOT A MAN!!! I swear. It's exhausting.

I can wear anything I want to and no one questions my "femininity." I mean if I show up in pants, vs. if a man shows up in a dress, there's no excitement or questioning.
I am thoroughly amazed at this. Women can wear pants, guys can't wear skirts and dresses, though that seems to have started in some circles.

Guys who wear women's clothes are STILL considered "deviant" "crossdressers." But women who wear pants aren't considered transvestites. It's a curious thing.

I think being able to have multiple orgasms is a great thing.

I hated being pregnant, but I liked having HAD my son. There is NOTHING more confining than pregnancy. You feel vulnerable because you ARE! You're tired and grouchy and you look ridiculous. Nothing to recommend it but the end product.

I wish breasts only appeared when you needed them. They're in the way and you have to strap them down to run with them. Mine aren't even big. But having them be completely flat unless you're sexually aroused would be perfect.

Being physically weaker than men is also annoying. If we weren't we wouldn't be so able to be overpowered in the wrong situations.

I like being able to talk to my son and his not being threatened by me. He has a very different relationship with his father and always has to walk on eggshells with him. I think some of this has to do with male competition. I'm not competing with my son.
I want him to be successful and I want to support him in any way that aids him in achieving success.

I think as a woman, I understand how hard it's been for ME to be in competition with men and as a young man he faces the same issues with the added problem that he's a man competing with men: the worst of othe worst. Male lions KILL other male lions in competition for females. It ain't a pretty picture. Male humans are the same.

Might not be physical death: but reputational, business and emotional deaths.
Not until men are in their late 40s or so, do they start to act like humans and seek to mentor younger men. They are no longer bent on competing. They understand there are better ways.

I think women understand mentoring early in life and usually practice it. Unless they've been too influenced by competitive men and women.

[Anonymous]

I think in some ways it is an advantage to men that they don't have the excuses women have for failure. The screen writer user here is a good example of that. She is always blaming men on GAG, overtly and subtly, for her challenges and failures. Men don't have that "luxury", but I think that is actually an advantage because we know from day one that we have to succeed on our own merits so we don't lean on crutches and excuses like women often do.

The whole "women get paid less for the same work" fallacy is a great example of that. Studies show that is simply not true, and in fact has been illegal for decades. Companies have Human Resources departments to enforce those laws and make sure there is no gender bias or discrimination, and in the vast majority of cases those HR departments are lead by women. Yet women like screen writer just excuse their failure to earn more money as sexism rather than own their fate like men are forced to do. I think that's a big advantage for men.

[MCheetah]

Best things:
1) Taller.
2) Physically stronger.
3) More durable.
4) No periods or pregnancies.

Worst things:
1) Literally NO sympathy help or emotional support from anyone.
2) No one EVER thanks men for their work or compliments us, ever.
3) It's extremely hard for most of us in the dating world, where as most women can get a partner effortlessly, and some of us will never get to have someone to be with.
3) Social justice warriors and progressives currently love to sh*t on men all the time right now, so we're an acceptable demographic to discriminate against.

[Luckycharms12]

Born a guy it's all I know so I like it fine