Downsides to being a guy?
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This is right up my alley! I'm not a guy so who would know more about it than I do? (That's a joke, of course.)
As I see it some of the drawbacks of being male are:
Facial hair that has to be shaved too often. What a drag! Of course a guy can opt to let it go and have a beard, but if that doesn't suit his look, he's stuck either being unattractive or having to scrape his skin with a razor.
That whole groin vulnerability thing, the paralyzing pain if someone gets unsportsmanlike with their aggression is definitely a handicap. I'm glad I don't have to be so mindful of my anatomy.
And that brings us to penis size. I guess that would be a positive of being a man if you're satisfied with your endowment, but it's a negative if you're insecure about it. Judging from my spam email folder, there are a lot of insecure men out there.
This would be a good time to mention that the idea of urinating in the midst of others is pretty much a nightmare idea to a woman, but is a fact of life for a male of any age.
Guys generally have a more limited palette to work with in their clothing and more limited styles available. You could see that as a downside, I guess. On the other hand, women's clothing manufacturers often hide the size tags INSIDE the garment, making shopping more difficult. Guys just wouldn't put up with having to do that much work when they shop.
Let's see...there must be more serious things than that.
Well, in male-female relationships, the man is often the one who has to make the flagrant first move. The woman may be flirting her behind off with him, but as far as the invitation to go out, it usually is extended by the man. And it must take a lot of courage to risk having the woman say, "No, thank you" or even worse, "Are you nuts? I wouldn't be caught dead going out with you." And if she says "Yes", the guy most often pays for the date.
In divorce situations (see how quickly we went from first date to the dissolution of an unhappy marriage?) men seldom get fair treatment in being able to spend time with their children. Even if the guy is a better parent, there is a pervasive favoritism shown to the having the children stay with the mother and that can mean that it's used by her to punish her ex.
And in this unkind life, men seldom get to show emotions. Sometimes men are portrayed as not having deep emotions, but I haven't found that to be at all true. What I have found is that men don't get to voice them to others and therefore do without the support that women give each other in times of trouble. I've heard that men only get to show two things: rage and sexual appetite and with that narrow scope, sometimes those two things get intermixed. I've heard that the crowd at a strip club is a rowdy, somewhat scary group and the odd mix of aggression and sexual urge is the reason.
I've read that men often feel that women act fearful of them if they happen to be out at night and a woman is also out alone at night. Perhaps they are each out for a jog or are waiting for a bus; a woman's vulnerability makes her fear being alone with a man she does not know in a place where there are not others around.
Let me leave you with a couple of advantages of being a man, lest you be a man who is now thoroughly discouraged about being one or lest you be a woman who is a bit too pleased about not being a man.
The first advantage is not having to find a bra that really fits, which is horribly difficult and can be expensive.
The second is that men can pee standing up, very handy on wilderness hikes. They seldom pee on their own shoes and can even write their name in the snow.
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