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maryeliz
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Advantages of being female
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Feb 28 01:00 UTC 2003 |
Okay i just read the item about disadvantages of being female. There were many
good points, but i think that there are alot of advantages of being female.
If anyone can think of any advantages of being female, i'd appreciate it if
they entered them here. I guess i'll start.
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maryeliz
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Feb 28 01:05 UTC 2003 |
The first advantage that i can think of is women are able to have children
and the second is once a month (up until a certain age) women are given a
reason to be in a shitty mood if they want to be.
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keesan
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response 2 of 51:
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Feb 28 02:43 UTC 2003 |
Nobody is afraid of you raping them. It is easier to talk to strangers.
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anderyn
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Feb 28 04:06 UTC 2003 |
It is? Easier to talk to strangers? Wow. I think I'd find it easier if I were
male. Because I wouldn't feel afraid of strangers if I was a man, and bigger.
And Maryeliz, I would NEVER call that time of the month a blessing. I
*finally* got rid of it a year ago next month (surgically), and I am so much
happier and healthier that I could dance in the streets! (You have to
understand that I was the unfortunate possessor of periods that lasted 8-9
days and were heavy flow for most of that time and were less than three weeks
apart. My doctor said I was literally bleeding to death. And I was. So forgive
me if I don't think of that as any kind of advantage!)
Um. Advantages to being female? Giving birth is kind of cool, yes. and
breast-feeding is also rather nifty.
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maryeliz
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Feb 28 04:29 UTC 2003 |
re 3- I never called it a blessing, i called it a reason to be in a shitty
mood if we want to be. And i swear you and my mom should start a club for
women who no longer have periods and gloat about it. My mom gloats about it
almost every month and it makes me sick. And btw, i praise you for being able
to go through periods that lasted over a week.
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edina
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Feb 28 15:22 UTC 2003 |
Advantages of being female? Some are sexist, but who cares?
Upon exiting a bar with a group of guys, I had a flat tire. Those guys would
never have dreamed of having me change my own tire.
Guys hold the door for you - and if you hold the door for thet, they think
it's a huge deal.
Guys never expect you to pick up the check - and are shocked when you do.
Guys expect women to be irrational - so when we aren't, they practically fall
at our feet.
The only reason I could ever dream of being a man is so that I could make some
serious cash playing professional sports.
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keesan
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Feb 28 18:53 UTC 2003 |
Females are much less likely to have hemophilia because it is X-linked. Men
with hemophilia don't generally live long enough to pass it along. A female
would need two bad copies of the gene and is unlikely to get more than one
(from a mother who is a carrier). We are learning about this in connection
with a relative of Jim's who got born with an extra chromosome (his mother
is not a carrier for this) and also hemophilia (she IS a carrier and now has
to worry even more about whether to have a second child).
Most of the adult hemophiliacs died of AIDS before a better test was developed
for donors. The younger hemophiliacs can now be treated with something that
is injected into them three times a week at $1000 per shot. No wonder the
costs of insurance keep going up. If you get this treatment, you don't need
the transfusions.
Women are on average healthier than men because of X-linked disease. Usually
having just one copy of a bad gene does not affect you much (unless the bad
gene produces something bad for you instead of just not producing anything
at all - dominant instead of recessive).
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