Who Has It Easier, Men or Women?

ladies: holding all the cards

If you're refering to Medium's (and my own) response to Lola, then please reconsider...

I'm pretty sure the both of us realized that she wasn't necessarily being serious, but that there are indeed women who do take on that type of attitude.

But seriously for a moment:

I defy anyone that has witnessed the life of a single mother of several children, really followed her life for a few months--I defy them to say that she has it easier than a man--unless the man is a single father taking care of kids.

Now if we are speaking single woman vs. single guy with no kids, that might be different.

I still say that until age 35 or so, the attractive women of that realm have the upper hand, (if you're the type that plays into their game), after 35 or so, many men will say the balance starts shifting.

Especially if the older guy starts having a lot of money, is fairly attractive...
well what do I know, this is what my rich friends seem to be living...the women just swarm like bees to honey...he seems to treat them bad, and they keep coming back for more...
but don't quote me, it sounds to un-pc

Exactly. Thank you.

And I'd hope that some realize I wasn't necessarily being serious.

Its all about piling the paradoxes and ironies of life deeper. How deep can you go? Can you hang with it going deeper, or is only the shallow joke understandable and laughable?

Can only one person tell a riddle, or can we tell the riddler a riddle? Enigmas within ironies, this makes life interesting.

Perhaps the person who bows only to the meek also has a sort of ironic laughter in and of it all.

EM.

Do you ever find yourself,late at night,attempting to scamper along the beach with all your limbs going everywhichway,rapidly and jerkily,whilst a wild,fiendish laughter cry escapes from somewhere deep down in your being.

If you don't you have some way to go in the irony jungle.

S,

I took that nervous monkey and harnessed his energy.

That monkey can be useful, at the right moments.

We must master the beasts within us and harness their power. Only then, when that formidable power it waxed and shined, it is presentable to her royal mysterious sensual meekness.

Little supernovas still exploding in the little chimps male brain though.

Thats the rub. Do female chimps get intricate intense mental supernovas exploding in their brains unexpectedly? It doesn't appear they do, but perhaps they just filter it better.

Agreed.

Funny how different words touch off completely different trains of thoughts in us. Whenever I hear the word "sanctuary" I am trasported to this song by The Cult. Did you ever hear of it?

Do know that your name touches of these thoughts also:

She Sells Sanctuary
by The Cult

Oh the heads that turn
Oh, the heads that turn
Make my back burn
Make my back burn
Oh the heads that turn
And those heads that turn
Make my back burn
Make my back, make my back burn
The sparkle in your eyes

Keeps me alive
The sparkle in your eyes
The sparkle in your eyes
Keeps me alive
Keeps me alive
And the sparkle in your eyes
And the world and the world
Keeps me alive, keeps me alive
The world turns around

And the world and the world
The world
The world drags me down
And the world turns around
Oh the heads that turn
The world and the world, yeah
Make my back burn
The world drags me down
The fire in your eyes keeps me alive

The fire in your eyes keeps me alive
Oh, the heads that turn
I'm sure in her you'll find
Make my back burn
The sanctuary
And those heads that turn
I'm sure in her you'll find
Make my back, make my back burn, yeah
The sanctuary

And the world and the world
Yeah-hey...
The world turns around

And the world and the world
The fire in your eyes
The world drags me down
Keeps me alive
And the fire in your eyes
Keeps me alive
I'm sure in her you'll find
The sanctuary
I'm sure in her you'll find
The sanctuary

And the world
The world turns around
And the world and the world
The world drags me down
And the world and the world and the world
The world turns around
And the world and the world and the world and the world
The world drags me down

And the world
And the world turns around
And the world and the world
Yeah, the world drags me down
And the world
Yeah, the world turns around
And the world and the world
The world drags me down

Sanctuary
Sanctuary
Sanctuary
Sanctuary

Well its good form that a lot of us let them believe that is true, and lets it be true, one supposes.

They markedly do not like it when a male is so bold to claim otherwise. Speaking of un-pc, were we?

A certain segment of them likes the male who defers all power to them, and lets them castrate him, as it were.

He's such a nice well behaved eunuch, they'll say.

Such a gentleman, romantic and sensitive too! "My dear eunuch"

Do not go gently into that good night!

(off topic, again) Medium,

No, I hadn't heard the song. Now I'm tempted to give it a go, thanks :wink:

yeah I like playing poker where you gotta pay to see my hand

Men have it easier. They have more freedom, power, and autonomy. They may have to work, but the little woman caters to their every need at home, cooks, cleans, bears and cares for the children, protects the fragile male ego by denying her own, and probably works as well, at a lower-paying job, to provide extras for the family.

They have it better emotionally (don't over-analyze relationships), physically (simpler plumbing, greater strength, and they design everything from cars to counter tops for their greater height), morally (men with multiple partners are studs, women are whores), and intellectually (historically women had limited opportunity for higher education and careers).

I have always considered it unethical to use sexuality to get what I want. If I cannot get something on my own merits I will do without.

It would be interesting to see how many men think women have it better, and vice-versa.

Are we talking 2005 or 1955?

I don't know, I am listening bemused.

and it's a hard
it's a hard
rain
gonna fall.

hmmmmm, wondering when I live

Most of my close female friends make more than their male partners. Always have. Is it a generational thing? My best friend from high school, my best friend from university, my best friend from my first ten years working, my best friend from the past ten years - all of their husbands were house husbands for 5 - 20 years.

hmmmmm

Did we self-select as friends? I certainly didn't know that their future husbands would be house-husbands.

ehBeth, It seems I ran around in the wrong circle of friends.

<I can't answer since I don't think anyone has it easier>,

I say, while I check in.

Woman <sigh>

I've met a few men that seem to have this affliction? in which they feel the entire weight of existence and the universe and the world on their shoulders. The whole world is on their back and on their mind, it seems. And they feel vaguely guilty for it All.

I have never met a woman with the above affiction. Perhaps they had it but didn't mention it? Has anyone met a woman with the above disease?

However, I have met some women that have the equivalent of the above, but it is the weight of their offspring. Their offspring consume every available molecule of energy their body and brain is producing. This is their form of the weight of the world disease, it appears.
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I cannot decide which of the two above "has it worse."

I think it strangely equal, actually.

It is easier for women. They create and mould us, men, when we are nothing but dwarfs with the intelligence of a chimp. I mean, babies.
We men, are always the product of a designer, and that designer is a woman.