Current Events > Do you think men or women have it more difficult in life?

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women have it more difficult in every single way except for access to dates/sex, which a lot of guys place an inappropriately high importance on thus leading to the hilarious position that men have it harder in life <_<

Yeah but men can't get the sex

women have it more difficult in every single way except for access to dates/sex,

most dont deserve any

Men. Women are treated far better by society.

That's false.

- Men are less likely to receive emotional support in general, even platonically. Often told to man up, more likely to be made fun of for being thin/short/broke, less likely to be accepted if shy/awkward, etc.

- Men are less likely to receive financial support. More likely to be homeless, etc.

- Male students have access to less scholarships.

- Men are more likely to be physically assaulted. (mostly by other men, but that's besides the point)

- Men receive harsher criminal sentences for equal crimes, and crimes against them are taken less seriously. Also profiled more by the police, especially men of color.

- Men have to register for military drafts while women rarely do. Usually not an issue, but I'm sure Russian and Ukrainian men probably felt safe too.

Men don't face the biological/institutional struggles that women do but are basically on their own for any problems they do face.

Women pretty cleanly have it worse, just from a pure statistical standpoint by most metrics

Glad that's winning though, even if the margin isn't super big. As someone who stopped going to this board for like eight years and is only recently checking in on it again, the first option would have definitely won in the CE of 10 years ago.

Being a minority male in the US is vastly more difficult than being a white woman.

Hopefully this doesn't get modded.

metrics... such as homelessness? college enrollment? suicide rate? violent crime death? percentage working in dangerous or unsanitary jobs? Untreated depression? Earlier death?

It's not like a guy can just open a profile in that site and post pictures of his feet or his nutsack and make a steady income.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/03/01/gender-pay-gap-facts/

https://www.rainn.org/statistics/victims-sexual-violence

To be fair only a minority of women can do that either, most are attractive enough to but by the nature of how online algorithims work they can't all be featured and gain a massive following at the same time. Most remainin with low viewership and engagement despite having paid the same price of public nudity the successful ones did.

Sex work is a more accessible profession to women but that's like saying coal mining is a more accessible profession to men, most people don't want and lack what it takes for these jobs.

Otherwise agreed, women receive a thicker glass ceiling but a wider safety net as well. I'd love to see a broke, weak, socially outcast, short guy come in here and say it's still easier to be a man.

If things are worse for men, who made them that way?

Could a man, white or not, have gotten away with something like what the Theranos woman did? Nope

If things are worse for men, who made them that way?

I wonder what the overlap is in men who focus on "male" specific issues, and "male" GoP voters is.

Mostly other men, but that has nothing to do with the victimized one.

This is another one of those subjects where I take the "independent who dislikes the major parties" stance since I don't agree with either on the subject. GOP supports rich white masculine men and Dems support women and minorities. No real focus on "disadvantaged men" specifically. On the rare occassion someone tries to balance support of feminist and disenfeanchised male causes like Bernie Sanders their campaign gets stomped out by the powers that be.

Wouldn't better healthcare provision, including mental healthcare, benefit men?

Wouldn't policies that help minorities also help male minorities?

That's false.

- Men are less likely to receive emotional support in general, even platonically. Often told to man up, more likely to be made fun of for being thin/short/broke, less likely to be accepted if shy/awkward, etc.

- Men are less likely to receive financial support. More likely to be homeless, etc.

- Male students have access to less scholarships.

- Men are more likely to be physically assaulted. (mostly by other men, but that's besides the point)

- Men receive harsher criminal sentences for equal crimes, and crimes against them are taken less seriously. Also profiled more by the police, especially men of color.

- Men have to register for military drafts while women rarely do. Usually not an issue, but I'm sure Russian and Ukrainian men probably felt safe too.

- 60.6% of the homeless are male.

- The majority of violent crime and deaths are male victims

- males make 50% of the population but 80% of the suicide rate

Wouldn't better healthcare provision, including mental healthcare, benefit men?

Wouldn't policies that help minorities also help male minorities?

Men suffer chronic loneliness more and it is rapidly increasing today.

Why not even consider non-binary? They probably have it the hardest.

Generally. But one can make the same argument for any disadvantaged group, yet some still receive direct focus on top of the general social advancements anyway. When in the Democratic party a candidate can be attacked for having a base of support that's "disproportionately male", despite being a feminist who supports women's causes, that doesn't come off very welcoming for men to me.

Because one does them more harm with a "same thing, both sides!" mentality.

You won't support things being made better for you unless it's from someone who says 'we want to make things better for you, specifically'?

The most effective way to mobilize African Americans, according to a survey, is appealing to race, not class.

If everyone else is doing it then I'm a sucker if I don't also do it about the causes I care about.

To the criticized that gets translated as a false equivalence even though the cause for and severity of the disapproval is completely different. And since I get in far more debates about the latter, since the anti-Republican stuff is largely accepted as both true and fair to discuss, it then looks as if I'm criticizing Dems more.

women have it more difficult in every single way except for access to dates/sex, which a lot of guys place an inappropriately high importance on thus leading to the hilarious position that men have it harder in life <_<

Super interesting poll result. From my perspective it seems quite obvious that (in general) women have simpler, easier lives. The more interesting question is, on the whole, which is happier (if this is even quantifiable somehow)?