Top Ten Reasons Why Women Are Better Than Men!

Top 10 reasons why Women are better than men

Rating: 18+

10. We don't have a penis.

- This means that we are capable of thinking with our brains. Something which men only wish they can do, and therefore pretend they can, because a man will never admit to having a fault. Ever. When a man sees something in a skirt, he forgets all else. When a woman sees something in a skirt, she can still make informed decisions.

9. We can be career women, mothers and lovers.

- Apart from working a full day shift, we can also come home, make dinner, help the kids with all their homework tasks, appease everyone and at the end of the day make daddy happy. Men? No. Men are too busy pretending to be the man of the house, therefore being lazy and doing nothing but sitting behind a desk all day.

8. Women secretly control the men in their life.

- This is true. Even those controlling men who want to dominate, they don't really. Behind every man's good decision, there's a woman who led him to take it. Men can't make decisions on account of thinking with their penis and therefore being unable to decide anything but where to stick it up next. It is very sad.

7. Women can multi task.

- Can men do their nails, while studying for their math test tomorrow, listening to a song, watching a sitcom and also chatting on MSN, add a light snack on the side. I think not. Men are easily confused and dumbfounded by simple tasks due to their lack of intelligence. Women on the other hand, with their superior intellect can easily deal with all these and more, if they were to come.

6. This is a man's world.

- And look where that's taken us. Wars, global warming, world hunger, droughts, terrorism, child abuse, high illiteracy levels... Well done, Men! For the past 2 thousand years you've dominated this world rich in resources to slowly starve it of its assets. But no worries, us women are here to clean up after your mess. As always! It's our turn now, within a few decades we will be the dominating sex and you will be the 'weaker' sex.

Seriously though, budge over. Look at what a fail Henry the VII was, look at how his daughter Queen Elizabeth I had to clean after his mess and bring order to England. And she did so, successfully. Now it's time to do the same, but on a bigger scale.

5. Women are vastly talented. '

- On the other hand, unless you're Picasso, you're biggest pride is probably the level you've reached on COD. Well done. In the meantime, we're doing great job in school, we will soon do a great job in college, and get a great job out of college. While you shoot random virtual people. Well done, though, operating that joystick must be extremely difficult.

4.Women are capable of speech.

- Ever wondered why men are always on about how women can't shut their mouths? That is because they are jealous. They are jealous of the fact that women are capable of stringing two sentences together, saying them aloud and not sounding like a complete and utter moron who mumbled something under his breath in order to get out of having to explain why he's home at this hour of the night when he was meant to be home at like four.

3. Women can genuinely feel.

- Men don't have emotions. Men have balls. Apart from their only thinking organ being their penis, it is also their only 'feeling' organ. Now all the twelve year olds in the room are going to go 'gross' and I'm going to say, well, that's why this has been rated. Men don't have emotions. Men can only feel things physically on account of emotions being very complicated things that require thought to understand. My bad. Men do have emotions. One emotion. Confusion. They are confused little sad things. Women on the other hand can feel with their whole being, be it hate, love or rage. Men are often jealous of this and therefore mock it.

2. Men need to be looked after .

- Women can look after themselves. They learn how to do housework, so when they leave home they can live on their own in a reasonably clean environment. Men, no. Men would end up living in a pigsty before picking up after themselves. If men didn't have women to look after them, men would probably die of contamination in their own homes one day. Or of being eating by cockroaches, which ever comes first.

1. Women: The whole reason for men to attempt to improve

- If women didn't exist, men wouldn't either. But, let's suppose that hypothetically speaking, women seized to exist and men went on existing. Men wouldn't have the drive to do better anymore. They wouldn't care about careers, money, fast cars because they do all this to match the stereotypical 'perfect' man. To impress women. Kind of like a peacock. If women didn't exist, men would be couch potatoes, who ate chips and played video games. No they wouldn't . Because there would be no one to produce chips and video games.

Conclusion: No women = You're fucked.

* Don't take this too seriously, I know not all men are like that! I realize I've grossly generalized. A certain site I stumbled upon has angered me though, which is why I wrote this.

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BenFranks
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Topic locked by Author request.

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Hecate
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And to the more sensible person above him, in this case I'm no better than he is, except for the fact that I don't agree with what I said and he actually does. This was meant as a joke, but there was a lot of anger involved when writing it, I'm not going to argue that, it was an article written in the angriest ten minutes I experienced right after reading what Dick Masterson had to say. I've read all of the articles that followed this one as you may have imagined as they were of interest to me.

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Hecate
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Can a moderator lock this, I see no sense in it being moved up all the time by people who just have to comment, even though this issue has been discussed over and over again.

To the last person who posted, what's ignorant is to assume that I am a poor student because of the way I choose to study. If you found this offensive, you could have PMed me, instead of bumped this OLD post for the millionth time. This isn't a forum discussion based on opinion anyway, it's meant to criticize the writing not counter the content. That's all I'm going to say, as I don't want to be told off by the moderators. Calling someone ignorant however, is never nice.

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This is the most insulting thing I have ever read. You're whole argument is flawed from the very beginning. This is sexist and immature on so many levels.

10. All humans have equal sexual attraction, believe it or not. Obviously this isn't true for everyone, but the vast majority of people are similar. There are about an equal number of women who cheat on their partners as guys who do so. The only reason there are more male rapists (yes there are female rapists) is because males tend to be more aggressive, a natural trait. Most men can think clearly when a beautiful woman enters his line of sight, just as woman would. Now, if she was beautiful enough, it may distract him, just as a guy could distract a girl. Don't deny this.

9. Oh really? You think men are lazy? You do realize you're following the American stereotype here, which is officially outdated more than 10 years ago.

8. Where did you get this from? This isn't even a stereotype. Yes, in a relationship, a couple will work together to make a decision, and if they need help they come to each other, but the help is both ways. Again, you're ignorant.

7. First, it has been proven that multitasking for either gender is ineffective, and stupid to do. It would literally be faster if you did each of them separately. Secondly, I'm pretty sure most guys can listen to a song and study at the same time, it's not all that difficult, I've done it. And lastly, if you need to watch TV, listen to music, and chat with a friend on MSN to keep you entertained while you're studying, you're one sorry excuse for a student, I'm sorry.

6. Yes, we live in a world run by men, but soon that will change. How do you know women would make it so different? You only mentioned the bad things that happened, you forgot about all the good, including a huge advancement in technology in the past 100 years. Wait until women start running countries before you assume anything.

5. Excuse me? You're saying all men love to play video games, and are addicted. Bull crap, I rarely play video games, and I'm excelling in school. Girls succeed just as much as men, you are ignorant.

4. Really? Maybe it's because they're trying to get something done, and their significant other is being rude and is trying to talk to him while he needs to concentrate. It looks like you're just making up things.

3. Excuse me? Men feel emotion just like women, we just control it, and don't express it as much. Men commit suicide more often than women, by a ratio of 8:1 or something similar.

2. This is another stereotype, men are perfectly capable of taking care of themselves.

1. No it is not. How about progress for the sake of progress?

Your Conclusion: No, we wouldn't be.

Your side not: Yeah, well that's no excuse to post some sexist ignorant post such as this.

My conclusion: You have no idea what you're talking about, seriously.

In the future don't write anything this ignorant, please.

It would be one thing if your piece was more satirical, but in all honesty it "sounded" like you meant what you were saying about men. I don't know you, I don't know you're relationship with your father, or if you have guy friends, or male family members, but don't you think they would be hurt that this is what you think of the entire male sex? Now I'm not a man, so I can only sympathize with how insulted they must feel. I understand that you were offended by that website, but quite honestly if I'm going to be frank, Go Up. Get a tougher skin. Move on. You are going to see more and more cases of unfair descriptions of people based on not only their genders, but also their race, their religion, their clothes, you name it. This just doesn't feel like it is meant to be funny, it quite honestly read like an attack. I read the male version of this on YWS, and personally I think you should read it. They did a much better job of getting their point across with out being hurtful or crude.
Just as a disclaimer, I know you had every right, according to freedom of expression, to post what you did. But let me just leave you with this. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. Just because you can post hurtful things about guys that make you feel better, doesn't mean you should. It is quite similar to whatever that man who created that site that offended you in the first place did. He created a site saying hurtful things about women because he could.
So answer me this. How are you any better than he is?

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Hecate
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Yes, I did mean Henry VIII, sorry. Let's face it though, if Henry didn't feel the need to burn down Catholic churches, but let people live in peace the way Elizabeth did, Mary most likely would not have felt the need to persecute protestants because she was scared they'd bring her down.

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Attolia
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Attolia wrote a review · Thu Dec 30, 2010 6:22 am

I just want to correct the historical allusion to Henry VIII, I'll try to refrain from commenting on the content because it is unnecessary and has already been thoroughly done, aside from my saying that personally I like men better than women.

Seriously though, budge over. Look at what a fail Henry the VII was, look at how his daughter Queen Elizabeth I had to clean after his mess and bring order to England. And she did so, successfully. Now it's time to do the same, but on a bigger scale.


I know you may not be serious with the last sentence, but still, you'd need more than one example of a poor male leader to have that argument. IF Henry VIII had been a poor leader, which he wasn't. But there really is no way to measure if women would be better political leaders, there has not been enough history of women leaders to judge.

First, I'm assuming you mean Henry the VIII, as nobody can deny that Henry VII was probably one of England's most effective rulers. Henry the VIII, however, was not a "fail" either. He ruled absolutely and brought England back to be one of the major players on the European stage. Yes, he left England in debt, but he did not leave her in a mess - he left her politically strong. The mess and disorder you're referring to were, ironically enough, mostly brought about by a women ruler. Mary I, his elder daughter and Elizabeth's older sister, who ruled for five years before dying and leaving the throne to Elizabeth. There were in fact almost twelve years separating Henry's and Elizabeth's reigns.

Sorry, I know the allusion was minor, but I'm too much of a history nerd to refrain from saying something.

Well, after three pages of sitting back and watching in amusement as my fellow YWS-ers tear at each other's throats, I've decided to step in and voice my humble opinion.

First of all, I would like to praise Stelagineva for her courage (some would say audacity) in writing this. You may agree with it or not agree with it, but as writers, I think we should all commend her for daring to post something which she no doubt knew would be controversial. As for myself, I by no means agree with everything in the argument (though certain parts are sadly accurate), but I do realize that she herself probably doesn't believe most of it. (At least I hope not.)

What most of you are failing to realize is that this particular article is not meant to be taken seriously. After all, the views presented are so extreme (men have no brains, women will soon be the dominant sex, etc.) that I find it surprising you aren't all laughing instead of getting offended. I'm sure the author is quite aware that men are not, in fact, sub-human brutes. So here are two little words of wisdom for everyone: #4000FF ">CHILL OUT.

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DanielRichard
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Certainly humorous, and over-the-top. I could see that you were exaggerating, but also caught that there was frustration in your writing, too. It got a bit subjective when little words were thrown in (brainless, moron, stupid, etc.).
Funny enough, and if anyone is genuinely offended, they shouldn't have read it in the first place. It was obvious where this was going from the title itself.
I actually really liked the last point at the end, where you talk about women being the reason guys "improve" themselves and compete with each other. I have had this same thought and wondered what we would act like in a society with no women. SCARY THOUGHT!
I'm glad you realize all men aren't the way you described, and the sexists who inspired you to write this probably deserve to hear it, even if it is "stooping to their level."

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Razcoon
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(Psst...the transvestite thing was my compromise between who's better...xD)

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TheWalkinDude
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In all honesty, this was rather harsh towards the masses of men. Of course, I did like some of the arguments (mostly because I'm more girl than boy anymore), especially the man of the house bit. My step acts like that, and it annoys me, especially when I do a lot of the cleaning and then he just complains, and even after all that, he won't let me grow my hair out do things differently without worry of being degraded. But i also agree that if this is supposed to be comedic, then why isn't it? Comedy is suppose to make the soul lighter, able to float amid the sea of emotional distress. If your soul is over-laden with anger and your sea is filled with turmoil, then your soul is going to sink like the Titanic. But, then again, you did write this while feeling angered, and had this been written to be fully serious, you would've hit spot on! Sadly, it's not. Still, I'm sure you are a great writer and this was only one of those little down falls that all great writers stumble upon every now and again. Heck, Stephen King wrote Cujo completely high! He doesn't remember writing it at all!

On a separate note: Let's see... someone's written one for females, males, transvestites.... Anyone think one for gays and lesbians would be justified? How gay males are better than straight males? Or how gay males are better than women (not trying to say anything, just suggesting something)? Just a thought to ponder.

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ImABookPerson
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Weird enough, I love it !

Yes, it might sound sexist, but it kind of make sense. So, keep on writing! :D I loved it !

~BookPerson~

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twiggers
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8. Women secretly control the men in their life.

- This is true. Even those controlling men who want to dominate, they don't really. Behind every man's good decision, there's a woman who led him to take it. Men can't make decisions on account of thinking with their penis and therefore being unable to decide anything but where to stick it up next. It is very sad.

7. Women can multi task.

- Can men do their nails, while studying for their math test tomorrow, listening to a song, watching a sitcom and also chatting on MSN, add a light snack on the side. I think not. Men are easily confused and dumbfounded by simple tasks due to their lack of intelligence. Women on the other hand, with their superior intellect can easily deal with all these and more, if they were to come. We can also talk on the phone, probably text, and hold an intelegent conversation with someone, too. Now if I asked my brother to do this, he'd go, "Wha??"

6. This is a man's world.

- And look where that's taken us. Wars, global warming, world hunger, droughts, terrorism, child abuse, high illiteracy levels... Well done, Men! For the past 2 thousand years you've dominated this world rich in resources to slowly starve it of its assets. But no worries, us women are here to clean up after your mess. As always! It's our turn now, within a few decades we will be the dominating sex and you will be the 'weaker' sex. I completely agree. Hitlers the problem that most of the countries hate each other, right?? Only men have been president, and do you see anything that's improved? No. Our troops have been sent out to war for no good reason! Is anything being done about polution and global warming? No. Just another thing that women have to clean up...

Seriously though, budge over. Look at what a fail Henry the VII was, look at how his daughter Queen Elizabeth I had to clean after his mess and bring order to England. And she did so, successfully.And she did so without a husband... Now it's time to do the same, but on a bigger scale.

5. Women are vastly talented. '

- On the other hand, unless you're Picasso, you're biggest pride is probably the level you've reached on COD. Well done. In the meantime, we're doing great job in school, we will soon do a great job in college, and get a great job out of college. While you shoot random virtual people. Well done, though, operating that joystick must be extremely difficult. ^^



4.Women are capable of speech.

- Ever wondered why men are always on about how women can't shut their mouths? That is because they are jealous. They are jealous of the fact that women are capable of stringing two sentences together, saying them aloud and not sounding like a complete and utter moron who mumbled something under his breath in order to get out of having to explain why he's home at this hour of the night when he was meant to be home at like four. When my mom asks my brother a question at dinner, he goes like this: "Wha??" with half the plate of spaghetti shoved in his mouth.

3. Women can genuinely feel.

- Men don't have emotions. Men have balls. Apart from their only thinking organ being their penis, it is also their only 'feeling' organ. Now all the twelve year olds in the room are going to go 'gross' and I'm going to say, well, that's why this has been rated. Men don't have emotions. Men can only feel things physically on account of emotions being very complicated things that require thought to understand. My bad. Men do have emotions. One emotion. Confusion. They are confused little sad things. Women on the other hand can feel with their whole being, be it hate, love or rage. Men are often jealous of this and therefore mock it. ^^

2. Men need to be looked after .

- Women can look after themselves. They learn how to do housework, so when they leave home they can live on their own in a reasonably clean environment. Men, no. Men would end up living in a pigsty before picking up after themselves. If men didn't have women to look after them, men would probably die of contamination in their own homes one day. Or of being eating by cockroaches, which ever comes first. ^^

1. Women: The whole reason for men to attempt to improve

- If women didn't exist, men wouldn't either. But, let's suppose that hypothetically speaking, women seized to exist and men went on existing. Men wouldn't have the drive to do better anymore. They wouldn't care about careers, money, fast cars because they do all this to match the stereotypical 'perfect' man. To impress women. Kind of like a peacock. If women didn't exist, men would be couch potatoes, who ate chips and played video games. No they wouldn't . Because there would be no one to produce chips and video games. And eventually, once the youngest generation died, the human race would be gone! Because without women, how ya gonna get kids??

haha!! I so agree!! All men are like this unless they are over the age of 35, because my dad and grandpa are awesome!

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Hecate
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@Boolovesyou: No, I'm definitely straight ;)

@LadyPurple and RazHuni: I know he's probably not worth getting annoyed over, but sometimes you can't help it.

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LadyPurple
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RazHuni wrote: I looked at the site, and I'd just like to point out...Why are you offended by a man who calls himself Dick Masterson? xDD He's a joke!

Haha. That's because he is one.
:D ~LPizzle.
I like that. LPizzle.... Anyway!

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Razcoon
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I looked at the site, and I'd just like to point out...Why are you offended by a man who calls himself Dick Masterson? xDD He's a joke!

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LadyPurple
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I know who and what I am and very proud of it. That guy didn't effect me. The guy bashing women will be shot within a year anyway. So what do I care what a man who's gonna be lonely forever with 123 cats, fat, old, ugly, and hairy thinks? Not all men are like that pig. Sure, there are men like that. But you just need the right ones. Men can do some things better than a women; and vise versa.
That's my complete thoughts on that. I know you had been hurt by it, just don't let it get to you.
~Ladypurple.

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Boolovesyou
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Hehe. This makes me think you should be a lesbian. If you have so much against men.

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laurabadleg
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This is like an editorial. I LOVE IT!

You are so funny. You should make more which are like rants.
Would be a good read for me :D

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carbonCore
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Stela, you'd make a really good troll. :) I will not go on a huge tirade about how wrong you are, since you've repeatedly stated not to take this post seriously. However, I will say this - writing consists of fishing out your deepest demons, dressing them up in frilly style and fancy diction, and then letting other people look at them. You've released the demon, but you didn't dress it up. I honestly believed you were 100% serious until I read the last paragraph. Yes, the rant is over the top, but not over the top enough as to look completely ridiculous and thus look like a joke. There are people with so much hate as to pass off something like this as an actual argument (see Andrea Dworkin), and I'd be very sad if some of those people lurked on YWS.

What I would have preferred to see was a funnier, more over-the-top rant, which came across as light-hearted but still slammed chauvinists like the fine folks at that website you linked (for example, this is a paraphrased quote from a female stand-up comedian I've heard: "...I can't imagine what it would be like to have a penis. It's all-- out there! What if I'm sleeping at night and someone decides to cut it off?!"). What you've got instead is seething anger, and seething anger is never fun to read. I'm guessing that's what got Mr. Sandvich (and a few others) so riled up about this - the easiest way to reply to anger is with more anger, and that's how wars start. Incidentally, that's also what you've done with this angry rebuttal to an angry site. :P

It's not wrong to be mad at the bile on that site, nor is it wrong to vent about it on these forums. But if you don't want to make a literary piece and just blow off steam, you should preface the post with big bold red text saying "THIS IS A RANT. THIS IS ME VENTING. DO NOT TAKE SERIOUSLY.", rather than a bit of fine print at the very end (putting your disclaimer at the end gives your reader the chance to get angry at you - not a good thing unless you're trolling). Remember that first impressions are the strongest and longest lasting. Also, I'd like to close this post with saying that for every single point you've listed, I've seen the female equivalent. :P Good luck with your future writing!

Your servant,
cC

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Hecate
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Sandvich, I thought you'd like to know it's not equasion but equation. Just for future refference. All sexist points are invalid. When someone is stupid enough to consider them true, now that's what causes indignation. A joke, on the other hand...

Well done for countering my arguements though, you must be really proud because they were like so well thought out and nearly indisputable. Note the bitter sarcasm.

And ponte2drama, we've been through this, as you can see on the previous page, it's already been esatblished, there is no need to state it again, as tempting as it might be.

I rest my case.

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LadySpark
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totally a one sided sexist argument.....

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Sandvich
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stelagineva wrote:Top 10 reasons why Women are better than men
Rating: 18+

10. We don't have a penis.
- This means that we are capable of thinking with our brains. Contrary to popular belief, men do not think with their penises. They think with their brains. I understand the metaphor though. Something which men only wish they can do, and therefore pretend they can, because a man will never admit to having a fault. Ever. Hai. I'm male and I'm a bit socially awkward. Alot of men have a thing called modesty. When a man sees something in a skirt, he forgets all else. No, they don't. Plenty of men work around women wearing skirts and they're fine. When a woman sees something in a skirt, she can still make informed decisions. But lets thrust a shirtless Robert Pattinson into this equasion and see how it progresses, huh?

9. We can be career women, mothers and lovers.
- Apart from working a full day shift, we can also come home, make dinner, help the kids with all their homework tasks, appease everyone and at the end of the day make daddy happy. Men? No. Men are too busy pretending to be the man of the house, therefore being lazy and doing nothing but sitting behind a desk all day. Men can do all of this as well. It's called being a father.

8. Women secretly control the men in their life.
- This is true. Even those controlling men who want to dominate, they don't really. Behind every man's good decision, there's a woman who led him to take it. Men can't make decisions on account of thinking with their penis and therefore being unable to decide anything but where to stick it up next. It is very sad. Lies. People of all genders make good decisions. Sometimes they are governed by a partner, often they are not.

7. Women can multi task.
- Can men do their nails, while studying for their math test tomorrow, listening to a song, watching a sitcom and also chatting on MSN, add a light snack on the side. I think not. Men are easily confused and dumbfounded by simple tasks due to their lack of intelligence. Um. If men are confused and dumbfounded by simple tasks, how come most of the world leaders today are men? How come a lot of famous scientists are men? Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, etc. Women on the other hand, with their superior intellect can easily deal with all these and more, if they were to come. *see above*

6. This is a man's world.

- And look where that's taken us. Wars, global warming, world hunger, droughts, terrorism, child abuse, high illiteracy levels... Ok, now lets take a look at a world without these things. It's IMPOSSIBLE to eliminate many of them, but without wars, we would not be very advanced. A lot of technology today and in the past came from wars. Well done, Men! For the past 2 thousand years you've dominated this world rich in resources to slowly starve it of its assets. This would happen anyway, unless we lived in caves. But no worries, us women are here to clean up after your mess. As always! It's our turn now, within a few decades we will be the dominating sex and you will be the 'weaker' sex. Nice little bit of totally unsupported futurology there. Even so, I can't help but point out that it would take way more than a couple of decades for women to 'dominate' men, and plenty of the world out there, both women and men, would be extremely unhappy to let that happen. The sexes are equal now.
Seriously though, budge over. Look at what a fail Henry the VII was, look at how his daughter Queen Elizabeth I had to clean after his mess and bring order to England. And she did so, successfully. Now it's time to do the same, but on a bigger scale. Woah! A woman did a great thing! Awesome, but just as many men have achieved great things.

5. Women are vastly talented. '
- On the other hand, unless you're Picasso, you're biggest pride is probably the level you've reached on COD. Well done. In the meantime, we're doing great job in school, we will soon do a great job in college, and get a great job out of college. While you shoot random virtual people. Well done, though, operating that joystick must be extremely difficult. I am a boy. I have achieved incredibly high standards at school and I don't play CoD. I am not Picasso. Your argument is invalid.


4.Women are capable of speech.
- Ever wondered why men are always on about how women can't shut their mouths? That is because they are jealous. They are jealous of the fact that women are capable of stringing two sentences together, saying them aloud and not sounding like a complete and utter moron who mumbled something under his breath in order to get out of having to explain why he's home at this hour of the night when he was meant to be home at like four. Interesting. I won't bother linking you to the speeches of Martin luther or Barack Obama then.

3. Women can genuinely feel.
- Men don't have emotions. Men have balls. Apart from their only thinking organ being their penis, it is also their only 'feeling' organ. Now all the twelve year olds in the room are going to go 'gross' and I'm going to say, well, that's why this has been rated. Men don't have emotions. They evidently do. Right now I'm feeling anger and indignation and it is certainly not coming from my penis but my head. Men can only feel things physically on account of emotions being very complicated things that require thought to understand. My bad. Men do have emotions. One emotion. Confusion. They are confused little sad things. Women on the other hand can feel with their whole being, be it hate, love or rage. Men are often jealous of this and therefore mock it.

2. Men need to be looked after .

- Women can look after themselves. They learn how to do housework, so when they leave home they can live on their own in a reasonably clean environment. Men, no. Men would end up living in a pigsty before picking up after themselves. If men didn't have women to look after them, men would probably die of contamination in their own homes one day. Or of being eating (I love how you say women are cleverer than men, but not only do you have many errors in this post, of which this is just one, but you also seem to overlook the fact that it is physically impossible to be eaten by cockroaches because cockroaches don't eat people. by cockroaches, which ever comes first.

1. Women: The whole reason for men to attempt to improve

- If women didn't exist, men wouldn't either. If men didn't exist, women would have either been hunted to extinction by animals in the cave age, thieir only aid being weapons they didn't know how to use, or simply died because women can't have babies without men. But, let's suppose that hypothetically speaking, women seized to exist and men went on existing. Men wouldn't have the drive to do better anymore. They wouldn't care about careers, money, fast cars because they do all this to match the stereotypical 'perfect' man. To impress women. Kind of like a peacock. If women didn't exist, men would be couch potatoes, who ate chips and played video games. No they wouldn't . Because there would be no one to produce chips and video games. Pot kettle black.

Conclusion: No women = You're fucked. No men = You're fucked.

* Don't take this too seriously, I know not all men are like that! I realize I've grossly generalized. A certain site I stumbled upon has angered me though, which is why I wrote this. That's not an excuse. Find another way to vent and try not to be so insulting.


Counter arguments in bold.

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Hecate
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Thank you, that was really detailed and it will actually help me in general, not with just this piece specifically.
As for why 'Women' was capitalized and 'men' was not, that was done on purpose to emphasize the fact that 'Women' are more imporant than 'men' :P. But I guess not many people will be able to spot that ;)

Still, thanks a lot! VERY helpful!

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BenFranks
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Okay, here's my review. Since being constructive may help your future writing to appear a bit less perogative. Edits, comments, points, etc are in#FF0000 "> red.

stelagineva wrote:Top 10 reasons why Women are better than men #FF0000 ">Try not to oviously list in a Non-fiction piece as it automatically puts a flaw in the overall point getting across. You can avoid people consciously recognising it is a list simply by starting with an introduction and then going into your top ten reasons: perhaps reason to what sparked this rant? Perhaps quote some points and express your disgust? Otherwise you seem too single minded. Also, you've capitalised 'Women' for no apparent reason - or one that isn't obvious as this isn't a consistent grammatical edit - and to neaten up your title, you should either write it as: Top 10 Reasons why Women are Better than Men (Article style), TOP TEN REASONS WHY: Women are better than men (Mag/informal style: best suited to this) or simply Top 10 reasons why women are better than men

Rating: 18+ #FF0000 ">Point one: No need to be rude to be funny. A good piece of writing discussing the views of sexism can be family friendly and a funny, good piece of writing should be no higher than PG-13/12.

10. We don't have a penis. #FF0000 ">Good, engaging title. The inevitable shock in confident use of the word "penis" in a sub-heading is good.
- This means that we are capable of thinking with our brains. #FF0000 ">Why? (if you're arguing a point). If you're arguing to be funny, however, you need to step out of the box. You can't claim fact in an attempt to hope the ignorance will make a few ladies laugh at home, but you need to make ALL your readers laugh. You need to push the boundaries of ignorance, extend your sentences, blabber and give us that feeling of a rant. Otherwise it merely seems like an ill-researched pro-feminism declarative. Something which men only wish they can do, and therefore pretend they can, because a man will never admit to having a fault. Ever. #FF0000 ">This is better, but if you want it to be funny to someone, you need an example. It also needs to be something far-fetched, imaginative and untrue. You need to visually style the comedy or it just won't be present. When a man sees something in a skirt, he forgets all else. When a woman sees something in a skirt, she can still make informed decisions. #FF0000 ">I like this as a mid-line, but you shouldn't end your point on it. This is a general snatch at 'perverts' in a sense, which is fairly funny because men, as well as women, will laugh at this, but ending it here and not chucking in a bit of a far-fetched, "laugh out loud" (if you'd excuse the cliche) just feels like I'm waiting for you to elaborate. I'm stuck on a point that made me snigger but expect more, not a dead-end, you know?

9. We can be career women, mothers and lovers. #FF0000 ">If you want to go from the rant/funny/joke aspect, change the word "can" to "are". Look like your definitive and confident in your moan/ignorance or else it'll have too much of a serious tone.
- Apart from working a full day shift, we can also come home, make dinner, help the kids with all their homework tasks, appease everyone and at the end of the day make daddy happy. Men? No. Men are too busy pretending to be the man of the house, therefore being lazy #FF0000 ">you need to explain what 'be the man of the house' is to you in a familiar-ish context because the accusation of laziness based on something merely stated before doesn't allow the reader to agree with you, even if it is in a humourus way. When you're writing non-fiction it is vital you pull the reader closer to you and not batter them further away with general assumptions left un-elaborated or opinionised on (you don't need to research it! Ignorance is good, it provokes discussion if you do it right!) and doing nothing but sitting behind a desk all day. #FF0000 ">If you're going to use this generalisation, go further. Do they stuff their faces with doughnuts and prawn crackers between extensive word-documents and spreadsheets full to the brim with numeric crap? Do they flirt with their secretaries who they treat like dogs playing "fetch the coffee"? If you're going to use humour, use it.

8. Women secretly control the men in their life.
- This is true. Even those controlling men who want to dominate, they don't really. Behind every man's good decision, there's a woman who led him to take it. #FF0000 ">Examples, examples, examples. You could take the mickey out of the ladies too and create irony by using the Shakespeare plot of Lady MacBeth convincing MacBeth to kill the King or something wild/intelligent like that. What ever you do, use something, push the brim, don't make it too rude and double check it's relevant. Men can't make decisions on account of thinking with their penis and therefore being unable to decide anything but where to stick it up next. It is very sad. #FF0000 ">Short simple sentences are serious and in this context dull and depressing. It sounds like you're flying the moral high-ground in insulting all men as 'very sad'. You should've ended on the more comical "stick it up next".

7. Women can multi task.
- Can men do their nails, while studying for their math test tomorrow, listening to a song, watching a sitcom and also chat#FF0000 ">ting on MSN, add#FF0000 ">ing a light snack on the side #FF0000 ">to the equation#FF0000 ">? Eh? Can they? I think not. #FF0000 ">Not sure if my suggestion is grammatically correct as I have changed it as I read each thing you listed. However, like I said at the start: Don't obviously list in Non-fiction. It is dull and repetitive. You need to add some spice, so stick in long words or muck up the sentence a little more. Experiment with language and give us something that feels different and we can get our teeth into. Men are easily confused and dumbfounded by simple tasks due to their lack of intelligence. Women on the other hand, with their superior intellect can easily deal with all these and more, if they were to come.

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Conclusion: No women = You're fucked. #FF0000 ">You've concluded your argument blatantly and rudely. You could've ended this in various otherways. Think of all those comics out there who specialise in one liners or all those great Non-Fiction writers who have the power to make a reader go "Ohhh yes" at the end of a piece or "Oh no, no [ha ha]". However, all you've done here is sworn. It doesn't sound that clever, informal, youthful or hip. You should revise this thoroughly because it's one of the small things that made me angry when I read it. Not because you've used a swear word (I have no problem with that in certain contexts) but because you've ended it on a blatent statement that a whole sex is 'fucked'. It's just immature.



I only gave you my views on the first three points you have because I would've only been repeating myself. Anyway, I hope this helped because - given the chance and the calmness/patience - you could write very good Non-fiction.

Keep writing,
Ben

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Hecate
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Thanks Snoink and RazHuni, these are actually pretty good ideas and if I ever feel sexist again, I will definitely use them to improve this piece of writing :P. I could see where you were coming from with the whole idea of saying 'most' instead of 'all'. That does make it appear harsher, and less funny, but when you see an article entitled 'All Women Are Cheating ******" you get pretty ticked off. Also, the idea of not using biological assets, but playing on the stereotypical idea of a man in a fresh way is definitely something to consider.

And for what it's worth, to all of your male friends that chose not to come forward and comment themselves, I really don't mean all this. I actually don't think women are better than men. Or that men are better than women. I was just angry. Sorry if I offended you :-)

@BenFranks: Are you kidding? You only have to LOOK at my 'inspiration' for this. THAT defines sexist and one sided much better.

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NewDivides
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Very accurate. I love the fact that most of this is true. I agree completely! :P

10. We don't have a penis.

I was already laughing after this one. In the end, I was gasping for breath. ^^

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Razcoon
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Okay, Snoink. Constructive criticism. Stel, this would be funnier if you didn't use words like "all" and "every", making a mass generalization, and thus only reaching a small audience and absolutely no one of the male species. It would be better to use words like "most". I'm not sure about you, but I'm able to make fun of myself in cases like that, where the "most" makes me say something exaggerated of the actions of the subject "most" was referring to (I hope that made sense; I appear to have been ranting a bit.).

Your tone in this piece is also more angry and biting than factitious, which could also give readers the wrong idea. Like Snoink said, you should make it more ridiculous and obvious you don't honestly believe what you're saying. Otherwise the funny factor drops off sharply and leaves an angry, degrading piece that lashes out at half the world's population.

I hope my post was helpful this time!
~Annie

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Snoink
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Snoink wrote a review · Tue Dec 07, 2010 9:29 pm

women seized to exist


It should be "ceased."

As far as the work goes, I think it would be better if you made it a bit more over the top. Right now, it seems a bit too angry and not funny enough. Ways to make it funny? Don't just pick on them for their biological assets or things they can change -- they can't really help that. Pick on things they can change. That way, it'll seem more ridiculous that they don't change it. Like, right now you're setting up the humor that men can't feel real emotions, right? Well, that's not very humorous because if they can't change that (as you argued), it's not funny. It's funnier if you say that men can have real emotions, but it's limited to only football, fishing, or guns. Or something else ridiculous. I don't know... just ramp up the ridiculousness a little bit more! In these sorts of things, a bit more crazy is a bit more hilarious.

Also, can we please direct the comments in a more constructive manner? If you don't think the content is funny, as it seems it is intended to be, and you want to comment, please critique and tell stelagineva how to make it funny. That way, it's a win-win situation!

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Razcoon
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@stelagineva I didn't tell you to take it down, but basically implied it should never have been put up in the first place. A different guy friend on the site told me I wasn't nearly harsh enough with you, but I don't want to get in trouble with the mods. Instead of arguing back, because we all understand your point [You're allowed to express myself this way, you aren't serious, you saw something more demeaning about women on another site, blah blah...], at least think about what me, Ben, and foxy are saying. I'd also like to point out that it isn't getting back at whatever site degraded women by posting this on here. They don't see it - we do.

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BenFranks
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I don't believe I've ever read such a sexist, one-sided argument in my whole life.

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Hecate
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Meh, it's still entertaining to write when you feel powerless to do anything else.

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foxy
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foxy wrote a review · Tue Dec 07, 2010 1:45 pm

Okaaaay, I looked at the website, and I read your article. Now I'm a realistic rational person and I really avoid discussing this subject... BUT I have to say:

Men are not better than women, and women are not better than men. Neither one is superior to the other, and I shant say that we are equal. We are different in a way that makes each one of us in utmost need to the other. Sure a man could become gay and a women a lesbian, but that's another subject I would consider wrong. Now, you said men think of their penises only, which is half true. They do not think of their genitals but they can easily be controled and manipulated by women :P. A philosopher once said, "The more a women takes off her clothes, the more the man wants. However, the more a man takes off, the more a woman would insist for to stop."

Men are neither dumb nor brainless, because that includes both sexes XD Well I'm just saying, and from now on when you read something you dislike close it and stick tight to you priorities and principles. I personally believe this is an old ended subject, it's like never going to be proven, so GET A FREAKEN LIFE!

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Hecate
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Thanks guys :D Haha, definitely, taking over the world is one of my many future evil plans and I wouldn't turn down help :P
But honestly, it's nice to know you guys realized this is more a joke than anything else and therefore should not be taken seriously ;)

@RazHuni: It's called freedom of expression, on the other hand this isn't something I genuinely believe in, just some laughs after I was angered by something much more demeaning written about women. If the moderators feel it needs to be taken down/ locked, then all the power to them, but I won't take it down because you find it insulting. ;)

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JabberHut
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*rated 18+ for language*

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Razcoon
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At first this looked harmless, but a lot of the things you said were over the top and, quite frankly, insulting. Rude. Now I'm not a guy myself, and don't aim to be mean, but I thought you should know that this was shown to me by a guy friend on the site that thinks it should be taken down. I second that. You have to consider that a lot of the people on the site are males, and will NOT find this funny, whether or not it's serious. Honestly, do you like when guys say something along the lines off "All girls like makeup and clothes and belong in the kitchen"? Even if they say they're joking?

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hockeyfan87
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Haha this made me laugh so hard. Due to the terrible exes we have both had we have made a boy cheat sheet....a short 10 page list of what boys need to know. Example, the gf is always right. Hah! but this was so funny I do agree we need to make a site! Hah!

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Idraax
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Idraax wrote a review · Mon Dec 06, 2010 9:09 pm

Someone's angry! :) We should start a site and plan to take over the world! No men allowed on our site! lol :)

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rememberme
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*stands up and claps loudly* BRAVO girl !(: You have figured out what men are all about and exactly what they think, and what they think with.(: Lol. This story made me crack up and shout : "TRUE!" I loved it. Your funny(:. Not all guys are like that though that's for sure, but the ones I date are :D. Lol. Keep writing (:.
Much Love,

-'member me

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Nike
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This is really true, partly because not all men are like that!

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Hecate
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Well, for your benefit, here's the link:


http://www.menarebetterthanwomen.com/

It's up to you whether you look at it or not. I wouldn't waste another minute on it, it's not funny, it's hurtful. I stumbled on it by accident when I was doing research for my English class. Wish I didn't, to be honest :/

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Shearwater
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This was supposed to be funny, right? Because it definitely made me laugh.
Now, there are a few faults in your argument but I suppose it's just opinionated (kinda?) and rant-ish.
Hm, I wonder what website it was that made you so angry, a part of me actually wants to take a peek but the other part would rather not deal with it.

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Meep(:
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A website of male chauvnist pigs?

Haha, do yourself a favour and don't stoop to their level :)



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