Girls And Puberty-Why Do Females Often Complain That They Wish They Were Boys?

We may not have to worry about periods, but to say we do not have to worry about whether someone we are attracted to likes us or not is silly. In fact, we are at a serious disadvantage where that aspect is concerned. Who is it that is expected to stick their neck out on the chopping block, and risk rejection? Who generally is expected to ask whom for a date? Or for a dance? Who is expected to make the "first move" at each step in the relationship.. with the possibility of being shut down at any time? The GUYS are. Girls can simply sit in a bar and look even half-way pretty (and the later in the evening it is, the less important that "pretty" issue becomes).

Guys have to struggle, getting up the nerve to ask a girl out, risking embarrassment and rejection. We go out chasing girls, and most guys will end up going home alone. If I were a woman, and even average in looks... I could narrow it down to half a dozen guys to pick up, and leave with a guy within 15 minutes.

Where pursuit of the opposite sex is concerned.. women have the advantages, hands-down.

Oh, ho ho, don't be too sure of that Bill. In fact, if you believe that you aren't seeing things the way they are. Males and females have advantages over the other, it is true, but believe me, all of my attractive friends have gone home lonely MANY times when that was not their hope. If you were a woman and narrowed down your choices in 15 minutes, I'd hate to see who you went home with! Good lord, going out is not about not going home alone.

True. But we would never have started this competition if it wasn't for our underlying need to be loved by men. Especially the ones we love.That's also why women can't understand why men dump them for uglier girls.... because they are prettier underneath. I don't think it's right, and I really opened something I'll regret. But underneath everything, we want to be sexy, feel sexy and we want men to want and notice us. A lot of women spend a lot of money and time and pain for this. But it is the truth. And then we resent the fact that we "have" to do it all. Maybe if sex or sexy wasn't such an important thing to most men they wouldn't have this issue, but unfortunately we all do. As much as I hate to admit it.

I think there may be some merit to what you say, but how do you explain it when 13 yr old girls are behaving in that way? For the men they love? Or more from peer pressure? Who puts it in their heads to begin with that boys will be attracted by this or that? Boys, or other girls? Considering that you yourself note how stunned women are when guys leave them for lesser beauties, I think that the illusion is in your own minds, and passed from one female to the next. Males could not really care less, for the most part. At the age in which females are developing the habits, and beginning the competition.... the boys are barely aware of such things, and girls could be wearing sack-cloth for all they care.

DOWRY? Yeah... it was the fatted calves which clinched the deal when we got married.

You are obviously not in a western culture if these things you believe. Women are hardly required to have kids in our society, and in fact does not even have to have sex with her husband. A wife can charge her husband with rape. Dowry is a tradition that has disappeared.. if anything, the MAN needs to have the assets if he wants a wife, rather than the other way around. When a divorce occurs, the woman gets the kids almost by default in our courts. As the old song goes.. "She got the gold mine.. I got the shaft". Women are, by and large, treated better than men in courts and law. Not only do they have the advantage in civil cases like divorce, they have the advantage in criminal cases. Women, on average, get much weaker sentences for crimes than men do.

BTW, men can be raped. And the notion that we do not have fear is ludicrous. We have simply been taught not to let fear govern us, or to show it. Fear, like other emotions, we have been trained since childhood to suppress... and as such, we live shorter lives on average and die sooner from stress related ailments.