Keep comments down. This is not an excuse to write demeaning comments. It is a logical and productive discussion,, hopefully. Here, two sides will debate the advantages and disadvantages of the genders.
On the females side of the debate, we have our main representative, THYMOLE!! And for THY's help is WRP. SO it will be even. On the males side, we have myself, WinSTON! Jack is my partner. No talking till it starts. And keep the comments down seriously.
-- Edited by WinstonShnozwick on Sunday 2nd of May 2010 04:55:50 PM
Yay 50% votes for me... wait... dont tell me... only two people have voted... -_-
This reminds me of Primary School... once a guy started the War of the Sexes and the guys faught the girls and they just gave up in less than 5 seconds...
-- Edited by somerandomdude on Wednesday 28th of April 2010 03:06:12 AM
Girls have a reputation for being smarter than guys in every area except for math. Even so, we generally have a higher work ethic. Girls are in fact now far surpassing men in terms of recieving college degrees, because men are not meeting the standards. Boys tend to devote time to useless sports that they are not even good enough in to make a difference. Girls tend to drop sports by highschool if they are not serious about competing. It is also undeniable have on average, girls have better study habits, penmenship, creative ideas, literary skills, and a desire to learn.
I disagree, I have quite good grades in school. Like 5 A's out of the 7 classes. And I do know lots of guys who have good grades. Girls are often distracted and don't do anythihng but talk with each other and mess around. Seen it. I dont do sports btw, dont intend to either. Im going into programming.
Well we cannot look at ourselves Winston, as just being on an Internet forum is proof that we are not representative of the general populations. There will of course be outliers, but we gotta look at the generic people. When girls fool around and slack off, they do what they need to do later on, when boys slack off it tends to stay that way.
Think here, in history, and still, most of the famous people were men. There were far more great (and known) scientists than that were men than women. I wont get into other areas yet.
After we cant continue on this, next topic is "Personality and Attitudes, how are men better here?"
Fair point, however until recent times women have been heavily discouraged from science, and in fact it probably wasn't legal until the Christian church lost control over the world, and only socially acceptable in the last two hundred years.
But this is school and academics, don't stray from the topic
We tend to concentrate on the subjects that we want to do more. If you think about it, there tend to be more specialists that are male then there are female. We don't do what we don't want to. That's how it should be.
No, Jack, that's not how it should be. If a men specialized in certain things needs to do something else to survive and has nobody near him, he may not survive as he is "specialized in different jobs".
Furthermore, that specializing in terms of school is nt applicable. Until college all areas of school are applicable to nearly all jobs, and specializinb in one area will not work. An excellent math student without English skills cannot be a good business man because he cannot create good presentations and lead. Unless you want to remain a small accountant or something
I never said we wouldn't be good at everything else, we just tend to concentrate more on the things we find more important. Life should be kept simple as possible, until you get into years 11 and 12 where your exams start kicking in. We do really well in those.
IE
OP's are out of 25, but the lower the score the better.
My brother got OP 6
My brothers friend OP 2
Two really good scores, and they have both specialised.
Well being specificly good at one thing or a few is better, because if you are good at that one thing, and serious about what you are going to do as a job, then you will only get and be good at the skills you need. Like me, I pick up math and computer skills quite simply, thats what I plan to go into. I dont need science or literature skills, or history, to be a programmer. Maybe you might need some of the others, like english, but then only an average knowing of it, which I have.
This is not true, because to grow higher one needs to have a well rounded skill set. You may be an excellent programmer, but without strong persuasive writing skills and smart leadership abilities (a la history/socialstudies) you cannot rise above the rest. The world will indefinitely need specialists like most men are, but a more varied individual will be the one to top them all
Well, Bill Gates, pretty much the most successful person in history, only had a few traits that he was good with. Programming, public speaking and economics. He specialised in those three things.
Big factory industries, assembly lines. You only need to use manual labor. Construction, mostly physical labor too. Architechs, historical architecture, math, not english or science.