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"Women are too emotional". Some of us are highly emotional, but it's not true as a group. Plus men have emotional responses too, they're just seen as being anger which still counts as an emotion!
"Women are too emotional" say the men who:
- threw temper tantrums at being asked to wear a few grams of paper over their mouths and noses during a global, lethal pandemic;
- get into bar fights because someone looks at them in a way they don't like;
- for ages couldn't stop themselves from posting in a women-only group and argued they had the right to be heard;
- beat women for "talking back" among a myriad of other faux-offences;
- blame women for their apparent inability to control their lust when a woman shows an iota of skin or body shape;
- ...
The first one also reminds me of that comic where a gal says she'd rather be with a bear than with a guy, and the guy rages about that, like an almost self-aware wolf.
Gesturing vaguely around me
but really, the double expectations, often on a premise of adhering to highly narrowed beauty standards (as well as for behaviour).
Yep! And it's white, albeist, young, feminine beauty standards. If you don't fit in those boxes you're fucked
Be fair! "Asians" are acceptable too, to the point of being sexual fetishes!
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“Women are weak.” Women’s strength is dismissed and underestimated.
I have seen three of the women from the normal-sized-but-terrifying side of my family get this one from men who were backing away or visibly cowering.
So I'm pretty sure it's not just that.
It's more complicated than that, in fact.
Women are in many areas stronger than men of equal size/weight.
- We build up slow-twitch muscle, the thinly-corded muscular foundations of lifting strength and endurance running and such better than men. Men are better at building up fast-twitch muscle, the thickly-corded muscular foundations of rapid motion like throwing, sprinting, punching, kicking, etc. This implies that a trained woman can likely lift more than a trained man when corrected for size differences, can run for longer distances, etc. but the equivalently-sized man will punch harder, and sprint faster.
- We are more resistant to disease than men.
- We handle pain better than men.
- We can handle G-forces better than men.
But if you look at what male-dominated media favours in competitions of "strength" it's almost all fast-twitch activities that are valued. The one exception is lifting, but there men have the visible edge because they're bodily much larger, so they lift more straight by proportional body weight.
This: https://people.com/ruben-gallego-groans-about-democrats-leaked-texts-11857626
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