The Stronger Sex?
The Stronger Sex? Science Says It’s Women
Women are "the weaker sex". If you're living in a male-dominated world that just coincidentally happens to define "strength" by things that men happen to be good at.
But it turns out there's quite a few important ways in which women are the physically stronger sex…
Ahh, the classic "if we redefine a word to not mean what everyone knows it means, we can put a clickbait title on it, and act as if it makes sense"
Don't you think that they raise a good point about our perception of what "strong" means? It is totally clickbait, but I think that in the context of talking about the issue with defining men as the stronger sex it makes sense to use that title and show that the common perspective is not the only valid one.
We're animals, it's obvious what strong means: who would win in a fight...
Does it mean that being the stronger sex means much in our society? Not at all, but it's a biologically obvious fact that in most species males are bigger & stronger than females.
And if you want to make the point that females have different strenghts go for it. Just don't try to redefine something that everyone understands means something else already.
Get ready for a wave of men complaining about the title 🤣 it is totally a clickbait but I don't think it's dishonest because it's not that it completely ignores the meaning of the word, rather it shows a new way to look at it.
This is a really cool summary of the research! It is easy to assume that women are physically weaker, but it's important to remember that there are a number of types of strength, though unfortunately some seem to be valued more than others in society.
Physiology is cool and this was a fun read.
Hmm, transphobic as it assumes women=people with certain biological traits and features, thus equating sex and gender, reinforcing the binaries, but interesting none-the-less.
Edit: clarified what we mean
while i agree that women doesnt always equate to cis women obviously, the article would be really messy if it constantly had to specify what people exactly it was talking about. it was pretty clear that it was about the subjects born sex rather than women in general
we can save using the word transphobic for things that it really matters imo, this isnt a problem unless made to be a problem
Eh, at the start just put a note "for reasons of brevity we are referring solely to cisgender people"
It was both a warning for those who were clicking on it, and the clicking a link about women, to us at least assumes it includes all women, not just some. Either the poster or the article should put a note up top explaining who it is about as we were clicking on it hoping to be including and pretty dissapointed when we were not, and yes it is transphobic, even if not against trans women as it assumes all people with certain biological features or traits are women too.
There's just no way it isn't transphobic, even if unintentional.
I don't think there is a good way to discuss the differences between women and men in a short article without generalizing. Most people are cis, and we are exceptions. I don't personally have an issue with the way this article makes its points.
I can accept that we are exceptional.
Yes but also certain traits of bio sex are achievable for trans people, so it's also hard to say which parts of the article are strictly applicable to bio women. So while I don't think the author really had trans people in mind, some aspects there are probably not strictly for bio women.
hm, this link 404s for me
So... I just had a very interesting conversation with my son, who was VERY upset that he couldn't have something from the garage. My husband was exhausted from work today and just didn't have it in him to rummage around for this thing my kid wanted. He wanted to yell and create trouble until he got his way. I tried to explain to him that if he figured out how and when to ask (like ask nicely, tomorrow when my husband wasn't tired) he was more likely to get the answer he wanted - and this idea (of not strong arming his way into a resolution) was completely bonkers to him. And it occurred to me that I have been conditioned to get what I want by working a situation/people and my son has been conditioned to push his way to what he wants. And maybe strength isn't just physical.
Anywho... This article was timely for me. 😃
That's a really interesting point thanks