Are there any 'pro female' sayings of physical strength/non-physical beauty?

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Angelblaze

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Title, I've been thinking as of late is there any list of pro female sayings/insults like, 'Be a man', 'Man up', 'Grow some balls', like men have - but not based on physical beauty or sexuality? Can we get a complied list?

[On a side note, how did the gender that pushes living, human beings - limbs, head and all - out of their sexual organs NOT get the 'physically durable' note from society?]

Okay so short collected list:

Hell hath no wrath like a woman scorned.

Which requires that a woman be hurt/scorned first before she's really capable of doing anything. Grand.

We got some more!

"Behind every great man is an even greater woman"

A little sad that we're behind the scenes though.

"The female of the species is deadlier than the male"

Don't see much wrong here, though unlike most 'male' focused ones it uses men are a jumping off point to say how awesome the female is. Either way, I'm using this one more often.

"The lion may be fiercer, but the lioness more cruel"

I always had a soft spot in my heart for cruel but badass female characters. This is my new 'Emma Frost' saying.


Edit: I'm not counting the PMS ones, because they feel more like insults. Sorry.
 

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Angelblaze said:
[On a side note, how did the gender that pushes living, human beings - limbs, head and all - out of their sexual organs NOT get the 'physically durable' note from society?]
Because for most of recorded history, a huge number of these beings who shoved babies out of there vaginas died screaming. That's not women's fault, of course (Unless you're a Christian fundamentalist).
 

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Angelblaze said:
[On a side note, how did the gender that pushes living, human beings - limbs, head and all - out of their sexual organs NOT get the 'physically durable' note from society?]
Giving birth itself wasn't exactly a popular subject of conversation.
Also it was common to die during childbirth.
 

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Uh all I can think of is.
"Put your big girl pants on"
Which is kinda like saying man-up? I just remember hearing it that one time from BattleBlock Theater.
 

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Does "don't get your panties in a bunch" count?

Angelblaze said:
[On a side note, how did the gender that pushes living, human beings - limbs, head and all - out of their sexual organs NOT get the 'physically durable' note from society?]
I'm really amazed people can't figure out the fact that "grows some balls" refers to the fact that the testes produce testosterone which in turn will "put some hair on your chest" which is a sign of manliness. "Grows some balls" just basically means "grow up" i.e. go through puberty.
 

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Angelblaze said:
Title, I've been thinking as of late is there any list of pro female sayings/insults like, 'Be a man', 'Man up', 'Grow some balls', like men have - but not based on physical beauty or sexuality? Can we get a complied list?

[On a side note, how did the gender that pushes living, human beings - limbs, head and all - out of their sexual organs NOT get the 'physically durable' note from society?]
Simple
form what I've amassed through my life and karen it goes a little somthin like this.
You need more woman then men to propagate species.
Woman's survival > man's
Woman prioritizes their own to ensure their offspring past and future choose mates that can protect and reduce risk to themselves thus want mates that can.
Females become highly sensitive to discomfort to prevent harm to child, men become sensitive to woman's needs to assist survival of offspring. (ever wonder why some incests let themselves be eaten after mating? that would be it.)
Men grow to become protectors and physically powerful to ensure female survival, females become neutonous as a result of an odd chain of species wide reflective identification that continues to this day.
Men become stronger through natural selection, as the weaker ones are weeded out, they also gain the ability to notice movement better then women to help on the hunt, woman's eyes become better at discerning colour to aid in gathering.
At the point of sapient tribes men have easily compartmentalized and suppressed emotions to assist in being damn good human shields.
Men are now valved on strength and better yet bravery as a tournament species, becoming highly competitive.
Females become obsessed with beauty, survial depends on mating, mating depends on fertility. they also become increasingly better socially to both utilize their mate to ensure genetic survival and to operate within social hierarchies.
I have no idea why but woman developed in group preference but hat's also a thing.
Mans valve is his physical durability, strength and virility. A confident strong man is a good mate and will sire strong offspring.
A female's strength in social understanding, beauty and fertility. A socially smart woman uses her mate to survive and doing so their children also do, a beautiful woman is health and has a greater chance to survive childbirth and a fertile woman produces good offspring.
Interesting thing to not a lot of male insults are often to suggest the person in question is a bad mate or lacks virility, or even simpler cannot please a woman.
Mind you this is using the data I've been given, this as far as I know is how the human race function until the last 1000~ years, perhaps 100~ what with industrial jobs being hella deadly.
A man had to man up or rub some dirt in it, stop crying like a damn baby and move on when hunting.
A woman did not have to, in fact the woman main defense was not handle things themselves but direct it to the man an I assume that's the reason.
On top of that it's a rather direct statement "to grow a pair" and often works in the less political male sphere, where insults and jokes are often used for bonding.
With woman I have heard that is not so much the case.
I assert that; the reason why you don't see it as an existent collection of phrase,
Not sure if this helped or really accurate, either way LET"S SEE YOU GRIT THOSE TEETH.




NateA42 said:
Does "don't get your panties in a bunch" count?

Angelblaze said:
[On a side note, how did the gender that pushes living, human beings - limbs, head and all - out of their sexual organs NOT get the 'physically durable' note from society?]
I'm really amazed people can't figure out the fact that "grows some balls" refers to the fact that the testes produce testosterone which in turn will "put some hair on your chest" which is a sign of manliness. "Grows some balls" just basically means "grow up" i.e. go through puberty.
interesting, I have often heard grow a pair and I have put some thinking into it.
Why grow a pair, not grow a dick, the symbol of dudeness, I figure it's for the sake of reproduction as the balls house the sperm and are often associated with the full translation for puberty to adulthood, I.e. "waiting for his balls to drop.".
It seems to outline the need for creation, to beget something and with the extension to grow a pair (ovaries are included) it seems the phase in of and itself means, be able to contribute something meaningful in the primal nature of the phrase.

[edit]That was something, woo, I lost this post once and now I've stayed up much later then I wanted retyping it, I'm sorry if it's a bit incomprehensible, I am tired. let's leave it at that[edit]
 

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Behind every great man is an even greater woman?

Hell hath no wrath like a woman scorned?

Women and cats will do as they please, men and dogs should relax and get used to it?
 

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Not really, no, the manly virtues are placed in opposition to the lesser virtues for women.

Ryotknife said:
Hell hath no wrath like a woman scorned?
Usually the misquote has "fury", and it's not really pro-female.
 

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thaluikhain said:
Not really, no, the manly virtues are placed in opposition to the lesser virtues for women.

Ryotknife said:
Hell hath no wrath like a woman scorned?
Usually the misquote has "fury", and it's not really pro-female.
Have you ever scorned a woman?

I'm guessing no.
 

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Rainbow_Dashtruction said:
Feminists cant seem to get it in their head that THEY ARE WEAKER, SLOWER AND LOWER IN STAMINA NATURALLY AND THIS IS INARGUABLE FACT
Excepting, of course, that it isn't unless you add the important qualifier "on average", which rather changes things. There's plenty of individual variation.
 

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Rainbow_Dashtruction said:
Yes, I'm sure a women can be extremely strong unnaturally and match the muscle build and stamina of the average male, but that is far, far from the norm.

A women is naturally weaker 99% of the time. She CAN build up to be stronger then someone who never exercises, obviously, but she will never match a man who has done equal exercise else she is an extremely rare oddity.
Your two points seem to be saying different things there.

Yes, a man will usually have an advantage, often a large one, over a women who does the same amount of exercise. However, the average male physique isn't that particularly unattainable for many women naturally, or after work. There are immense differences in the levels of fitness of people.

Cap: hardened prestoopnicks ?
 

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Rainbow_Dashtruction said:
Angelblaze said:
Title, I've been thinking as of late is there any list of pro female sayings/insults like, 'Be a man', 'Man up', 'Grow some balls', like men have - but not based on physical beauty or sexuality? Can we get a complied list?
People have said it before but its simple. Women are not built to be fighters and hunters, their built to be gatherers and breeders. Its only relatively recently that humanity has reached strong enough technology to completely circumvent the need for gender roles. Therefore, most male sayings will be based around our physical strength and reactions, as that is what we are inarguably better at naturally, while women based ones will be based around motherly abilities and your ability to attract a mate, as that was your entire role for the entirety of human history until a century ago.

Feminists cant seem to get it in their head that THEY ARE WEAKER, SLOWER AND LOWER IN STAMINA NATURALLY AND THIS IS INARGUABLE FACT
Putting aside the fact that you're reifying the evolutionary process and turning it into what basically amounts to intelligent design, you're fixating on the wrong correlation. The important one is, as you also note, the correlation between muscle strength and prowess in physical labour. There is no need to bring sex into the equation - there are plenty of women who could run circles around you in a race, or lift several times the weight you're capable of.

You might as well apply the same argument to a distinction between short men and tall men.
SHORT MEN ARE WEAKER, SLOWER AND LOWER IN STAMINA NATURALLY AND THIS IS INARGUABLE FACT. Thus, the naturally proper role for short men is/was to stay at home and make sandwiches.

Edit: The point being that what you should be saying is that "WEAK PEOPLE (regardless of sex) ARE WEAKER, SLOWER AND LOWER IN STAMINA NATURALLY AND THIS IS INARGUABLE FACT."