/lit/ - Literature

It's all truly disheartening Anons.
While I'm unconvinced that there's too strong a difference between the races to warrant being racist, the sex problem haunts me deeply. I grew up with the idea that men were stronger and faster, but at least women were more empathic and spiritual, with the childlike logic of a "balanced" videogame where all classes have a shot at things.

But time and time again I'm proven wrong, men are stronger, faster, smarter, more spiritual and philosophical and whole, and I'm not even saying it as a great triumph, I didn't choose to be born a man. But when you point this out you get the expected result: weird looks at best, outright outrage most of the time.

Women complain about periods and cramps and being intellectually stunted every single month, and yet if you ask them of the hypothetical of a pill or machine to supress these curses, they lash out. "I wouldn't be a woman anymore!". How can it be so? Akin to someone with non-functioning autism not wanting to get cured because they have no identity beyond their tics and shrieks and habits.

I don't want to be a sexist (as in believing men are just superior), I really don't, but...