Society & Lifestyle >
Gender Issues
Get a Widget for this title
RSS FeedBattle of the sexes: Which gender is superior?
Results so far:
| Male | 33% | 9 votes | Total: 27 votes | |
| Female | 67% | 18 votes |
Male
Write now
Print
Invite a writer™
Add to FavoritesNo gender is superior to another. Both have qualities, capabilities and defects. When God created the human being made them simple and ignorant. He gave all his children opportunities to learn, grow and evolve. No one boasts, in good conscience, to be better than others.
God is merciful father of all, expects each of us comply with their duties and observe its laws wise in their daily life. The man by his physical characteristics have more muscle strength and endurance than women. The woman, more fragile in this sense is generally more tender, patient and strong to resist the moral landslides.
You could say that man and woman are complementary throughout life. The union of the sexes, procreation generates is the continuity of the human race. That is why God made them male and female to learn everyday living, the sacred duties of parents. Learn to live with the family that is the foundation of society. This coexistence will be born the moral-spiritual growth and the ability to educate their children with love, so that our society become more humane, flexible and loving.
The man and woman should not exist for the war of the sexes, but, yes, tolerance, mutual understanding and forgiveness, as no sexual gender is better or superior to another. We need to both learn and educate themselves in the love of God, loving and respecting their sacred laws and loving yourself and respecting each other. This includes the duties to the family and society.
Despite of that the policy discussions, media, and academics on gender equality issues at the last decades, many sexist ideas are still part of Brazilian culture and explain the social, economic, occupational and behavioral differences between genders.
These are some sexist ideas of character and behavioral problems, socio-economic or legal related to them:
It is man's natural duty for the family
Early dropout of most men, especially in the poorer classes, who are pressured to work to support their families while their sisters or wives have greater freedom to choose between work or study. Consequent reversal of the imbalance on the educational gender, with women rising up higher educational levels than men on average.
Work overload is on the male gender (25% of Brazilian men economically active work more than 49 hours per week compared with only 12% of women in the same condition).
Women should be responsible for home
High percentage of women without economic occupation, although we focus in this genre on the highest levels of educational and professional.
Mothers are more important in the education of their children than their parents.
Extremely low rate of judicial decisions in favor of custody of children of separated couples to be given to parents or to be shared between father and mother.
Men do not cry / men should be strong / woman who is beaten to the loose (and variations of these arguments)
Less demand for males for medical care compared to women.
Resistance of male individuals in charges against their partners when they come to be victims of domestic violence.
Betraying the nature of male (but not female)
Male attitudes are violent, often resulting in aggression or crimes against life, when suspected or finding of adultery
Perceived social rejection by women who cheat on their partners, unlike what happens to men infidels and many others.
Learn more about this author, Alice Martins.
Click here to send this author comments or questions.
Female
All human beings emerge from the womb extremely alike, as in small, annoyed and loud. As we grow into infants, we get larger, more annoyed and louder. This generally continues into the teenage years when we become almost unbearably big, psychotic and deafening. Thus far, there isn't a particularly noticeable difference between the sexes (we all play with dolls, prefer fast food and are experts at conning our parents out of money for mobile phones and computer games).
That is until girls begin to do better at school than boys. This is quite a mystery until we learn that girls mature faster than boys. Perhaps girls attempt to speed through childhood, exams and qualifications because they sense that they have a lot more to fit into their future lives than boys? Or maybe it's because boys are busy exerting their masculinity over the other boys in the playgrounds in order to get the girls (which they'll spend the majority of the rest of their lives trying to do while the girls are busy bringing up the human race).
Girls are not only forced to grow up faster, nurture the human race and ensure that the boys are well fed, have a clean pair of jeans, and are cheerful, they also have to live longer! Is this perhaps because girls are the ones who have to clear up the mess left behind when the boys have finished playing with their toys? Those rusty submarines are so hard to clean!
Nevertheless, the boys must deal with high expectations from parents and society in general. They are made to feel that they must find, win and hook the best looking girls, they should make enough money to drive the fastest cars or motorbikes, and if they're up to it be the first to travel to mars and invent more superior weapon of mass destruction than the boys next door. They have a lot to live up to.
We must give credit to boys, because they come in extremely useful at times, especially when broken washing machines need moving or a wobbly shelf needs fixing. They aren't equipped with the best listening skills though. This is due to the fact that they are only able to think one thought at a time. In other words if they are already thinking of their favorite sport, the girl from the bar or what's for supper there isn't a great deal of point in attempting to communicate with them.
Procreation's much harder for the male sex than for their female counterparts, especially birth, after all they're the ones that either pass out or would like to but have their images to protect. They're the ones who have to listen to all the screaming and cursing and having their hands crushed by the inconsiderate new mothers in progress. Some exceptional males even have birth pains out of sympathy, except that when they're the ones who get the painkillers it's not always appreciated by the yelling mothers.
Boys have extremely difficult lives and they deserve credit for all of their hard won, useful contributions to society; I'm trying to think of one. No, it's escaped me but I'm certain that there are many.
To conclude I'll ask a question: Have you noticed that I haven't stated which gender is superior? The simplest answer to that is that I'm being as diplomatic as I can under the circumstances.
Learn more about this author, Georgia Stewart.
Click here to send this author comments or questions.
Difference of opinion? Debate now.
