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"Women are superior to men. In every way, shape, and form." [sic]
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Also, don't women tend to get fat reserves more easily?
A lot of you do about society telling women and men they're not equal at things not determined by gender and creating this gap due to societal pressure.
"Just that Abyss was saying only attitudes differ and the rest were societal seemed odd when considering muscles and fat"
Of course, gender difference discussions usually deal with mental differences, so I left out physical as a given.
Serious answer: Being a man doesn't actually protect you from being misandrist, in the same way that being a woman doesn't actually protect you from being misogynist.
Your friends are douchbags, albeit a particularly rare kind of douchbag.
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Also about the apple/orange thing: What Abyss_Worm said, except that he's actually misinterpreted what the study said. It found the only (significant) differences between men and women AT ALL are sex, aggression, and motor skills. We can't tell what causes them (and I strongly suspect that the sex and aggression parts, at least, are mainly cultural).
Sorta-edit: It turns out I left this post in my browser for a few hours without posting it. So I'm pretty much doomed to be ninja'd. But I'm too lazy to rewrite it so I'll just leave you guys to sort it out.
I've been told this twice now, by two of my closest friends. (of which you may or may not know, but I will not share their names). Both of whom are male... is it ok for me to be bugged by this?
I apologize if I am stating the obvious, but yes, it is definitely okay for you to be bugged by that. I agree with Waltzy that people are individuals and should be seen as such, so I think it is silly to say that all men are bad or all women are good or vice-versa.
Talking about people, especially classes of people in terms of being superior or inferior bothers me a great deal too, mostly because of the problems it tends to create (i.e. the "superior" people becoming arrogant or hurting those considered inferior).
Abyss_Worm,
That's the thing I find damaging about gender stereotypes. They end up becoming something of a self-fulfilling prophecy that keeps everyone in line regardless of their own individual personality. And really, this affects both boys and girls, so it's not so much an issue of one side persecuting another.
I agree on both of these points too. Aside from just expectations about gender roles, it bugs me a bit when people say things like "well they're men or they're women so of course they would do something like that." Basically, I really dislike it when people tell others who (or why) they are rather than letting them make their own decisions.
I admit that even I do this. But I try to write them both the same.
bought into stupid man-guilt lauded onto them by Feminists.
Not necessarily. Placing women on a pedestal is often a symptom of creepy nice-guy behaviour, and, oddly enough, can be sexist in and of itself. After all, when you're lauding folks as pure wonderful perfect beings, you're not really thinking of them as people.
It's like the 'noble savage' concept, only applied to sex instead of race.
I think this is a good example of the "placing women on a pedestal" idea that Iaculus mentioned. While I believe that some of it is has good intentions, I feel like doing your best as an individual to respect everyone (men and women) makes a lot more sense than apologizing for what men (or women) have done in the past.
That being said, I do think it is a good idea to be aware of past sexism and acknowledge that men and women have faced and continue to face certain unique challenges.
Phenomenon.