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Sure but you are probably aware that all boys being born have higher strength than females, just because of biology. Then of course in life as we grow, some men don't maintain that strength and lose it. But I think it's still accurate to think that men in general are stronger than women, even if there are exceptions.
Otherwise we are just ignoring a fact of how our bodies are different.
But due to how natural selection works, that's a self-fulfilling argument. Men are biologically stronger specifically because people have made the argument you're making for hundreds of thousands of years, thereby selecting for the pattern you're claiming exists.
When you're looking for someone to do a task, you aren't looking for a biological explanation, you aren't looking for a man, you're looking for someone who can do the task.
I don't think people have selected for that. It was necessary in the past to be strong to survive and provide for your family. So those genes were selected because those people could survive long enough to have kids. If you were too weak, you didn't make it.
I'm not saying it was deliberate (i.e. artificial) selection, the selection was natural. I'm just saying, think on it more.
But you're saying those genes weren't required by females for some reason? Why? Honestly the only answer is: because it just happened to work out that way. The evolutionary coin could have just as easily flipped the other way and resulted in women being biologically predisposed to be stronger. We see this in many animal species, in fact.
We have a history of giving jobs to men because we've conflated their gender with other capabilities, not because they actually are the most capable. But my point is, we're smart enough as a species to not do that anymore.
Of course, coin could have flipped the other way. Its not like men did anything to get higher strength. Just like woman didn't do anything to be able to have children.
I think we should celebrate that we are different. Sometimes it feels like people thinks higher strength means "better gender". It doesn't mean that at all. :)
I love that woman are different from me. I love everything about it. And my partner loves that im a man. I think we should just celebrate that we have two genders that are different in many nice ways.
As for job history, tall men are paid more than women, and found by girls to be more attractive, at least where I live. I think it's similar to young girls being preferred by almost any man. We have our biological patterns inside and we are not going to get away from them very easily.
The brain is like "this is not right" but our emotions are like "yeah but it's fun". Humans are quite interesting in that way, because we are both emotional and intellectual.
But people are different. It's not a homogenization to treat each person as an individual, exactly the opposite. Just as the coin could have flipped the other way, the coin could have been a 1 sided, or an N sided. If someone identifies strongly with their gender, then that's great, celebrate who they are as part of their gender. But other people want nothing to do with the social associations people make between them and their gender, often because they don't apply. Gender norms are great for people who identify with those norms, but they're a prison for people who don't.
We do have biological patterns, but they're not nearly as clean-cut as Leave it To Beaver, or a high school text book might paint them to be. In some cases, there are very real, very measurable biological patterns that society refuses to accept as real, instead insisting that every human falls into a simple "male" or "female" bucket that they can be defined by. That simply doesn't reflect reality.
I know it may feel like I'm going on a tangent, but it is relevant. Humans are far more interesting and different than just "men and women are different", and we should celebrate that.
I can absolutely see your point about not fitting in to a gender role. I think many people in technology felt something similar growing up, way before computers were popular. They were considered geeky and people who used them were strange and a bit weird. Absolutely not popular.
It hurts to be treated that way, because you just want to be yourself. And I understand that feeling very much myself. It's the same when you are ugly by the way. Life is completely different when you are ugly compared to when you are beautiful. It's just a different world because every single person will treat you differently. But sorry, that's me going on a tangent...
It makes sense that when you feel like that, you want people to stop treating other people like that.
Gee, Mr. Manager, that's odd, I lift and carry my husband in and out of his wheelchair everyday because he's a quad and was a floppy baby who's never walked, but apparently "all boys being born have higher strength than females just because of biology."
You're sure it's ALL boys? You're absolutely sure that strength between two individuals is dependent upon their sex? We're the same age and height. I weigh more because he has no muscles and I do. And yet, SOMEHOW, I'm a woman.
Gee, ladies , why are we NOT surprised at that "boys"/"females" word choice in Mr. Manager's assertion?
I guess it didn't take long for the incels to follow the crowd over from Reddit.
I'm sure there are exceptions like in your case. But in general yes, boys are born physically stronger. Your insults won't change those facts. But you know, you can have your own beliefs. That's the great thing about life. If you want to believe that females are physically stronger, or that there is no difference between men and females physical strength, you can do that.
You are acting quite immature with your insults here. If you can't even talk about these things without getting upset, maybe you are not completely objective here. Give it some thought.
Oh you're also one of the ones who likes to pretend he's being strictly logical and doesn't realize how his prejudices and emotional insecurities show through in his posts. I'm sorry you're threatened by the fact that your masculinity doesn't guarantee you greater strength than most women. If you want to be physically strong you're going to have to get off the couch and exercise those muscles and ligaments. And if you want your opinions to be respected, you need to exercise respect for facts, even when it's women telling them to you. You speak like someone whose notions of "biology" haven't changed since they were 5 years old. There's a whole lot of "Mom said I can't hit girls but I really wish I could" leaking out all over the place in your comments. I'm sorry you're so emotionally stunted and I sincerely wish growth for you.
I'm sorry but you are not acting emotionally stable here. There are many things you are saying that obviously have been painful experiences in your life, but they have made you wrongfully interpret things people are saying. You have no idea who I am but your comments show you are visualizing someone who have hurt you before I guess.
Anyway let's move on in other posts. Have a good day.
Sorry dude, you're projecting. Not unexpected from a delusional person, I guess. I am already having a nice day, and you're having no effect on it. Feel free to dodge if you're uncomfortable.