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35 Takes On ‘What Things Are Easier If You’re A Woman’

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Whilst men and women each have their own struggles to contend with, there are certain advantages in life for each sex. Recently, one user on r/AskReddit wondered what these were and asked, "What is easier to do if you're a woman?"

There are some surprising answers, including ones where we'd never imagine that the physical difference gives them the upper hand. There are also a few that bring up some interesting points about how men are considered in society compared to the ‘fairer’ sex. Check out the best answers that we've collected below.

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#1

35 Takes On 'What Things Are Easier If You're A Woman' Work with children.

As someone who works in early childhood education I've had the cops called on me three times when I took my kiddos to the park. Thankfully I know the beat cop quite well so it has never caused me any real issues, but the fact that people see "Adult man...interacting with children???" and assume I'm a violent predator honestly hurts a lot.

My team is all big, burly, heavily tattooed men, but we are all insanely qualified to do our jobs, but that all means nothing to some random Karen who sees scary-looking me give piggyback rides or do a girl's braids. I had a bad childhood and just want to care of the little ones, kindly [screw] off.

CaucasianDelegation , Gabe Pierce Report

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By no means do women have it easier than men but there are a few unique points that stand out. If we look at the answers more closely though, they also raise some questions about why some situations are like this.

With “being able to ask for help” or “show emotions” as a couple of the answers given, we need to look at why these are difficult for men. Maybe it’s due to the societal pressure that’s put on them. The prevailing idea of what a man should be is self-sufficient and steely, so the answers mentioned don’t go hand-in-hand with that image.

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#2

35 Takes On 'What Things Are Easier If You're A Woman' Get support from others.

I tend to feel completely alone in my suffering, most times when I talk to someone they just wanna tell me to "tough it out" and "be a man".

Sorry, I'm in grief from my son dying in my arms and my chronic illness has taken a turn for the worse this year and I'm just [freaking] depressed all the [freaking] time.

Yet everyone wants me to continue my life and my job as if everything is honky dorey.

sobedragon07 , Priscilla Du Preez Report

Final score:

189points

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Men are expected to keep up unrealistic standards which are especially damaging in the long run. What’s worse is that it’s not an idea that comes completely from within — it’s the result of other men perpetuating it too. We know it best as 'toxic masculinity' and it goes on to affect women too.

#3

35 Takes On 'What Things Are Easier If You're A Woman' Changing babies in public. Many men's rooms do not have baby changing stations.

DJD119 , Annie Spratt Report

Final score:

177points

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#4

35 Takes On 'What Things Are Easier If You're A Woman' Seek help for domestic violence

rhonaldreagan , Luis Galvez Report

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171points

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#5

35 Takes On 'What Things Are Easier If You're A Woman' Physical contact? If I feel like it if I need a hug, I can just cuddle with my girlfriends. I don't think it's that easy for guys...

LisslO_o , June O Report

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160points

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#6

35 Takes On 'What Things Are Easier If You're A Woman' Wear another gender's clothing.

SYLOH , Patrick Beznoska Report

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154points

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#7

35 Takes On 'What Things Are Easier If You're A Woman' Small thing but telling what a lotion/deodorant/body wash/shampoo smells like by the label. Women’s is just labeled like vanilla or lavender but men’s get dumb names like wolf hawk or champion.

WeavBOS , deanna alys Report

Final score:

153points

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#8

35 Takes On 'What Things Are Easier If You're A Woman' Compliment any complete stranger. As a dude, I have to very careful complimenting strangers. I will actually tell my wife, “check her hair out, it’s super cool. Will you tell her?” And she will, and it made that stranger’s day. Just wish I could do that more often without being seen as creepy.

This especially applies to children. It’s a big no-no for a 41 year old guy to compliment a child saying they look super pretty. Woman - no issue.

_Mikey_Boy_ , Bewakoof.com Official Report

Final score:

148points

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#9

35 Takes On 'What Things Are Easier If You're A Woman' Consoling a lost child in public (more to the perception of male threat, no matter how unfounded)

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133points

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#10

35 Takes On 'What Things Are Easier If You're A Woman' Getting their hand into a Pringle can.

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#11

35 Takes On 'What Things Are Easier If You're A Woman' Knowing for certain that the baby is yours

endl0s , Kelly Sikkem Report

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122points

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#12

35 Takes On 'What Things Are Easier If You're A Woman' Fun answer - Its easier for women to learn how to rock climb. Men will use their upper body strength as an early crutch and muscle their way up a wall, while women have to develop correct form and technique to do as well when first beginning. This leads to much better climbers from my observation.

Sad answer - physically abuse the opposite sex. Many times if a man is in a physically abusive relationship others will assume he isn't or can't be abused. There are numerous videos where actors has shown women hitting men in public and at best no one helps, some will even laugh. Switch the roles and everyone comes running to help a women being physically abused by aman.

Final score:

116points

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#13

BEING A SINGLE PARENT: my parents have been divorced since i was 6 (i’m 19F now) and my dad has always been the more stable parent in the situation so my siblings and i always lived with him and travelled with him as kids. TSA would always look at us weird and interview us kids about who we were traveling with, making sure we weren’t being kidnapped? or something? idk. people would look at our family weird in public every time we went anywhere. it’s hard to be a single dad these days for some reason but it makes no sense to me bc men are just as capable of parents as women are. one other example i can think of is the fact that a lot of men’s bathrooms don’t have changing tables for babies… like wtf? it’s honestly astonishing that society basically assumes that men are completely incapable of caring for a child smh.

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#14

35 Takes On 'What Things Are Easier If You're A Woman' Sit down on a chair without accidentally sitting on yourself.

dusmeyedin , Hannah Olinger Report

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101points

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#15

35 Takes On 'What Things Are Easier If You're A Woman' Apparently women fighter pilots handle g-forces better than men, mainly due to being shorter and their heart not having to work so hard to pump blood to their brains (short men also handle g-forces easier for the same reason).

wtfisthat , Ryan Grady Report

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90points

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#16

Tons of martial arts throws. Female center of mass is lower down in the body than male center of mass, even before accounting for height differences, and it's absolutely crucial to certain martial arts throws.

Like, you know that one throw you see all the time in movies where someone grabs a person from behind, and that person just leans forward and rolls them over their shoulder? Yeah that's almost impossible for most men to do unless the stunt person grabbing them is helping with it. But for your typical woman it's literally as easy as leaning forward, it takes basically no strength, it's all leverage.

I'm a man who practices mixed martial arts and four times out of five when I'm sparring a woman and I lose against her, it's because she threw me.

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84points

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#17

Binaural Hearing. Using headphones, play different recordings per ear which each contain mostly gibberish with the occasional intelligible word thrown in.

Women are consistently better at recognising the words, particularly when two intelligible words are played at the same time. Men have more difficulty with this.

The reason this experiment is fascinating and repeated many times is that cis women and trans* women perform just as well as each other, with trans* men and cis men together doing generally worse. We don't know why.

a_polka_a_calypso Report

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79points

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#18

I'm not afraid of getting accidentally hit in my private parts. It can hurt, but not nearly as much as men I believe.

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74points

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#19

35 Takes On 'What Things Are Easier If You're A Woman' Here’s a fun one! Women are generally better at conserving air while scuba diving. I teach scuba and 95% of the time my female students could stay down twice as long on their first dive than their male counterparts.

It’s a big pick me up for so many tiny women who think all the heavy gear is going to set them back from the big muscular guys.

slightlyspiffy , Juanma Clemente-Alloza Report

Final score:

70points

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#20

Find nice pieces of clothes full of colours. It is so hard being a man in many clothes stores. Next time you wonder why men are not interested in shopping clothes, look at the choices we have and the minimal amount of variety and fun in men clothes compared to women !

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#21

Distinguish between colors.

I can't find the reference now, but I once read an article where some fraudsters were sneaking into a conference with fake badges. The fake badges had a slightly different shade of color. Women could spot the difference, but men couldn't.

joleary747 Report

Final score:

66points

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#22

Shoot a gun. Women are willing to be taught and men think they already know how. Any gun instructor will tell you that women first time shooters are better than men.

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66points

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#23

In most instances I’ve personally as a man found women to be more self-aware and have a greater understanding of their emotions and how to identify their feelings. Not to say I don’t have male friends and acquaintances who possess these traits.

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Final score:

65points

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#24

35 Takes On 'What Things Are Easier If You're A Woman' Carry anything on your hip

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62points

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#25

35 Takes On 'What Things Are Easier If You're A Woman' Daycare worker. Really any profession to do with kids

abcdeezntz123 , CDC Report

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62points

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#26

35 Takes On 'What Things Are Easier If You're A Woman' Touch your friends I think

NationalPassion9144 , Priscilla Du Preez Report

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60points

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#27

Gaining sympathy sometimes

"Just man up" doesn't really help

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59points

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#28

35 Takes On 'What Things Are Easier If You're A Woman' Ask for help.

Smil3yAngel , Christina Report

Final score:

54points

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#29

Read people.

I don’t mean auras or anything woo. I mean READ people and read rooms. I’m not saying men don’t do it but every woman I know does this. We’ve always had to I think. Our instincts have to be attuned even if we don’t always heed them

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#30

Women have better fine motor control. People who assemble circuit boards that are to small and delicate for a machine to complete are predominantly women. I've also heard they pick up things like flying helicopters faster as well.

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50points

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#31

Thrift shopping. Aint nothing in the mens section but 2007 fun run t shirts in bright neon colors.

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49points

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#32

Survive the NICU -- apparently, girls do much better in the NICU than boys do and tend to have fewer health complications. We heard that time and time again as parents to a 29 weeker girl.

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Final score:

47points

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#33

Floating. It’s a fact because women’s fat is deposited differently in our bodies, mainly in our thighs. My husband tries to float but instantly sinks whereas I can just float all day long. Exception is if your a bigger male with a lot of fat around your thighs

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43points

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#34

35 Takes On 'What Things Are Easier If You're A Woman' Sales. Seriously females salespeople are on average much more successful than their male counterparts. In my industry (industrial sales), it's an open understanding that our typical sales contact (older middle-aged male) is much more interested in talking to females than males. Huge sales buff if you are young AND at least a little attractive.

If you are a hard working, quick witted and social young female looking for a high paying job without education requirements, I would strongly encourage you to look into B2B sales. All of the technical knowledge you can learn on the job.

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42points

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#35

Get complimented.

Final score:

34points

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#36

Getting tattooed. May be anecdotal but I have spent hundreds of hours in tattoo shops and women seem to sit better from what I have observed.

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#37

Get a babysitting job

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#38

Cry around people

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#39

Getting custody of the kids….? So I’ve heard that’s the way the courts swing

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14points

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#40

Any sort of stretching exercise. Unless the man had been doing exercises in his early years, a woman is going to have more stretching. No where it's more visible than yoga class.

On the other hand, guys have strength and can hold yoga poses for longer so there's that.

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14points

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#41

Have piercings. I’ve had like the basic one since forever, and have never been dress coded for it, even now when I have 3, but guys always have to take theirs out. This could j be where I am tho

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13points

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#42

35 Takes On 'What Things Are Easier If You're A Woman' Serving tables at a restaurant. While the overall sales between the men and women servers are about the same, the women get tipped much higher. People seem to have a better time at restaurants if their server is a woman.

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#43

35 Takes On 'What Things Are Easier If You're A Woman' Getting a match on Tinder.

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Josy Bannon 3 years ago

Prove that gender equality would also improve men's lives

29points

Ozacoter 3 years ago

Its funny how the sexists who whine about "feminism doesnt care about men" are the ones downvoting you for caring about men

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Ozacoter 3 years ago

While I strongly disagree with some of them I find this article super important. Sexism affects negatively both sexes and its time that people realise. Men deserve to live in a society that allows them to express fear and sadness, to be caring with friends and family, and to not be treated as an emotionless person.

24points

Om 3 years ago

and it's also important to notice sexism not only comes from men, but also women, in the sense that, bs like "men only wear blue" is not only passed from men to their sons, but also from their moms. I mean, it goes both direction, female and male stereotypes are reinforced by both men and women.

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Peko 3 years ago

Because mens' feelings are only valid if you agree with them. Maybe take a long hard look at yourself.

-3points

Shon 3 years ago

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Susie Elle 3 years ago (edited)

Kind of unrelated but I remember one time when I was at a pool, there were large dressing rooms for everyone (so no separate stalls), only separated by sex. In comes this dad with his little daughter, maybe three years old, while I was there with my the female half of my class of teenagers getting undressed. The dad had his back turned towards us the entire time though, but at that time we were weirded out by this man, why couldn't he just have gone into the men's dressing room? But now, many years later, I figured he probably just chose what he thought was best for his daughter at that time. I'm not sure whether I would've done the same thing had I been a mom with a young son (or a dad with a young daughter), but I guess that only proves my point that it's different for men to be in this kind of situation. I feel kinda bad about how I reacted to that situation (we didn't say anything but I think we threw looks).

7points

Ozacoter 3 years ago

Yeah. Me and my partner had the same. We took out once his nieces when they were very young. They still needed help to wash their hands and not make a mess. My partner couldnt take them to the mens bathroom (urinals and penises everywhere) but couldnt enter the womens one. And back then I spoke next nothing of their language so it was very difficukt for me to help them. Its absurd. We need gender neutral bathrooms with closed stalls.

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Josy Bannon 3 years ago

Prove that gender equality would also improve men's lives

29points

Ozacoter 3 years ago

Its funny how the sexists who whine about "feminism doesnt care about men" are the ones downvoting you for caring about men

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Ozacoter 3 years ago

While I strongly disagree with some of them I find this article super important. Sexism affects negatively both sexes and its time that people realise. Men deserve to live in a society that allows them to express fear and sadness, to be caring with friends and family, and to not be treated as an emotionless person.

24points

Om 3 years ago

and it's also important to notice sexism not only comes from men, but also women, in the sense that, bs like "men only wear blue" is not only passed from men to their sons, but also from their moms. I mean, it goes both direction, female and male stereotypes are reinforced by both men and women.

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Peko 3 years ago

Because mens' feelings are only valid if you agree with them. Maybe take a long hard look at yourself.

-3points

Shon 3 years ago

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Susie Elle 3 years ago (edited)

Kind of unrelated but I remember one time when I was at a pool, there were large dressing rooms for everyone (so no separate stalls), only separated by sex. In comes this dad with his little daughter, maybe three years old, while I was there with my the female half of my class of teenagers getting undressed. The dad had his back turned towards us the entire time though, but at that time we were weirded out by this man, why couldn't he just have gone into the men's dressing room? But now, many years later, I figured he probably just chose what he thought was best for his daughter at that time. I'm not sure whether I would've done the same thing had I been a mom with a young son (or a dad with a young daughter), but I guess that only proves my point that it's different for men to be in this kind of situation. I feel kinda bad about how I reacted to that situation (we didn't say anything but I think we threw looks).

7points

Ozacoter 3 years ago

Yeah. Me and my partner had the same. We took out once his nieces when they were very young. They still needed help to wash their hands and not make a mess. My partner couldnt take them to the mens bathroom (urinals and penises everywhere) but couldnt enter the womens one. And back then I spoke next nothing of their language so it was very difficukt for me to help them. Its absurd. We need gender neutral bathrooms with closed stalls.

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