Yeah, my sister deals with that kind of stuff with her boyfriend, too. He insists on being "the man" about things as much as possible, including "paying" though sometimes it makes more sense for my sister to pay for things as she currently makes more money with her job than he does with his.
Hate for bumping up an old topic but Matthaytor showed me this. Female teachers who molest young boys get off easy compared to male teachers who molest young girls. Stupid double standard.
Also, from personal experince, why are there double standards for women. For example: If a guy doesn't go out with an unattractive girl, he's shallow. But if a girl doesn't go out an unattractive boy, it's because she 'deserves better.' Explain that.
Instead of wasting time mentioning some of the many double standards that favor males over females, I'm going to get to the point. There are a zillion double standards for BOTH sexes and they all relate to the fact that men are stereotyped as "strong & agressive" and women are stereotyped as "weak & passive."
Only when people en masse actually start believing that men/women aren't different beyond certain biological factors will "double standards" go away.
Even though Mel Rose has probably left, I'm replying.
We already know that there are female bodybuilders, and I seriously doubt all or most of them can be explained by drugs. You can consider them preternatural, but that is an opinion and only a label. That's really only saying that it's beyond what YOU consider natural. They prove it's possible for some.
Men can run day care. It's just not widely encouraged, and that's why you don't hear more about it.
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it's not an insult to work in the field of your physical and mental capability.
But people have individual capabilities, so you shouldn't just look at gender. This is about capabilities, because people should be able to do things according to their individual capabilities instead of the average capabilities of some group that has a trait in common with them.
Let's say people who live within 5 miles of a liquor store are better musicans statistically. Should you not be able to be a musician because you don't? That makes about as much sense.
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so why should us women fuss about work labor we should have more pride in our feminine abilities.
This is sort of similar to something I've said before, but for different reasons. Pride isn't the word I'd use, because that's like pride in nationality, but in the struggle for equality and the reactionary response I think much of culture has implied that what was supposed to be "feminine" is inferior and female empowerment or superficial anti-sexism is portrayed as a female in a stereotypical male role. I argue instead to just ignore that pile of mr bigglesworth sprites and be individuals. So everybody should take advantage of their feminine and masculine abilities that they each have, and not bother labeling them as such.
Oh, and about that bodybuilding and pelvis business:
www.stumptuous.com/cms/index.php
Some say that, in fact, traditional weightlifting techniques are designed for a male pelvis, and that it's just a matter of developing more varied techniques.
I seriously think women have kicked themselves in the ass. Gone from one extreme to the other. We wanted independence, OH we got it alright! Men don't have to do a damn thing to get a woman because a lot of women take care of lazy men, work for them, pay their bills, buy them gifts, and of course scream DO ME to every avaliable penis around. And we wonder why women are so freaking emotionally stressed out when a relationship backfires. It's all pride with no dignity attatched. You put all that work and effort into it, practically fighting off other women. And the man still leaves you BECAUSE you do too much for him. = You're way too easy and not a challenge in the slightest. Probably time to find someone who is.
So no, women are not being treated as inferiors. Women have very very strong wills now and know how to use them. For Better or Worse.
Why do some women feel they have to be so superior? Or meet a man blow for blow?
a lot of women take care of lazy men, work for them, pay their bills, buy them gifts, and of course scream DO ME to every avaliable penis around.
Hah! I wish!
I have to admit I don't do surveys' But this is just my experince with women I've known.
In general, the strength of men and woman vary. However I believe that if you get the strongest man the strongest he can possibly be...and the strongest woman the strongest she can possibly be...the man would be stronger. But the woman would kick the butts of just about any man.
Personally I have not seen any men try to foot the restaurant bill over me though. Alot of things like that, you see before marriage. When you get married that all changes believe me. LOL j/k 
