Advantages & Disadvantages of being a girl by Johana Sarzo

 

Women have had to face a lot of difficult things for earning the respect they have these days. Being a girl has a lot of advantages & disadvantages and I’m going to present them here.

Like we have a lot of advantages, we have disadvantages too, for example, the period, it is very uncomfortable and most of the girls (maybe all) don´t like having the period.

Another disadvantage is that girls, normally, are more complicated than men. We think a lot about things and we have more problems. For example, when I’m with my friends (boys and girls) we start talking about something and all the girls (including me) start discussing about the things we are talking about for a long time, while the boys only listen and they just don´t care.

“TV is a powerful influence on all of us, but particularly young girls who are looking for role models,” Los Angeles-based therapist Dr. Nancy Irwin.  TV can be a very bad influence for girls because they want to be like the actresses or models there. More than 90 percent of girls – 15 to 17 years – want to change at least one aspect of their physical appearance, with body weight ranking the highest. And that´s why they start having eating disorders.

Another disadvantage is that girls are an easier target for bullying. A girl is bullied every 7 minutes in the school yard, playground, stairwell, classroom or bathroom, because girls are shorter, more sensible, and is easier to hurt a girl than a boy.

There are a lot of other disadvantages, women can get raped and pregnant. And that way, you could get pregnant at a very young age, when you are not able to take care of a baby, and it´s difficult to overcome it.

We could have a lot more, but being a girl is not that bad, we can have a lot of advantages too. For example, we never have to stand at a urinal and have other girls stare at us like boys do (and normally, we have cleaner bathrooms)  

Another one is that we can have babies when we have a good age and if we want to, and most of the women think that giving birth is beautiful.

Women are known for having a higher tolerance to pain, women give birth… That´s something a man could never do.

Another good reason for the one is better to be a woman is because we have the ability to perform many activities with only one career studied. When we become mothers at the same time we are: psychologists, chefs, drivers, doctors, etc. Like for example, my mom, she didn´t study for being a doctor, but when my brother or me get sick, she knows what medicine she has to give us.

There are many others advantages & disadvantages and sometimes girls want to be boys because is easier. But being a girl is beautiful and I think we can have a lot of advantages.