Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by nuclearburrito 2884 days ago
Hardly. God created men and women different, but equal. There is equal value in both. We should never attempt to dismantle the differences, but embrace them within the roles both sexes play. My wife is smarter than I am by far, gorgeous, and is a doctor. I'm a nerdy guy with glasses and a buzz cut. We compliment each other, but we are at the same time equal and different.

Women are more nurturing, more patient, better at handling conflict. Men are stronger, better at ending conflict should it arise (soldiers, police due to size and strength), and better at protecting families. There are exceptions. Neither sex is smarter. There are physical limitations for both. When I served in the military, for example, men had to do 20 dead hang pull ups. Women had to do a 70-second dead hang from the same pull up bar. Very few men could do the dead hang because women's muscles are different in their core. Maybe 1 out of 100 women could do the pull ups. It takes tremendous upper body strength to do 20 dead hang pull ups.

The desire to wipe away the differences between the sexes is wrong. I see beauty in the feminine and embrace it in its proper context. My wife cannot do some of the things I can do, and I certainly cannot perform as a doctor for women's health care in the same way she can. I'm at a loss, hence my wife and I both agree that men and women are better than the other in certain roles, but certainly equal.