Is it truly pathetic to be a woman?

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I know that has an obvious answer judging by the popularity of feminism in the 21st century, but this question has crawled around my mind as if it were a huge philosophical question; an existential crisis of you will.

I am a male-to female trangender, and I know for a fact that someday I will face my father's sexist attitude that suggests that being a woman is truly "pathetic". And with that said, I want to know all the reasons why I should be proud of being a woman, so that when the time comes I know what to do, think, and say about my father's, as well as everyone else's, sexist attitude.

Here are some guide questions:

1. Is the reason why sexism exisists because of the importance of physical strengh alone?
2. What are the biological strenghs of women and weaknesses of men?
3. Does Christianity have dissapear in order for feminism to triumph? (ala Fredrick Nietzsche's philosophy (I.E. "God is dead and we have killed him!")
4. Why has sexism existed for such a long time?

You don't have to answer all of these questions, just a few of them should suffice.

1. Is the reason why sexism exisists because of the importance of physical strengh alone?

According to some feminists, yes. Some of them argue sexism exists inherently because women are considered weak or lesser.

I completely disagree with these. Sexism I'd say is caused by cultural, social, environmental, genetic and biological factors.

That is, most societies and cultures have created gender roles based on our biological instincts but altered or exaggerated things and keep such things alive today.

2. What are the biological strenghs of women and weaknesses of men?

Women have wider hips for an optimum birth canal. In many other ways women's bodies are designed to help birth a baby and most men would die from pregnancy.

Women have higher body fat percentage, ensuring nutrient and food for her baby in times of food shortage and starvation, or extra storage for herself.

Women have higher pain threshold/can feel more pain than men can (stronger resistance to pain), especially during pregnancy.

Women have stronger senses such as smell.

Men have higher testosterone production resulting in more muscle mass. Men have lower body fat resulting in less excess weight to carry around. They tend to have more stamina and mobilty. They tend to have better 3D visual spatial calculation. This means they're better at estimating the distance between two objects and such.

Disadvantages? Less flexibility, less resistant to pain, our, uh, 'downstairs' plumbing is pathetic compared to women's (tunnels and such), our bodies aren't really designed in anyway to cater to childbirth (actually very important. Male breasts can actually sometimes produce milk but not on the level women's can). Some men may actually have worse mobility then women (think a big slow tank compared to a woman who might be slim, flexible and capable of acrobatic feats and such). And, we do tend to be poorer at acrobatics and such moves. Because of less body fat, our skin may be more easily pierced and bones have less protection because of no layer of fat over them.

3. Does Christianity have dissapear in order for feminism to triumph? (ala Fredrick Nietzsche's philosophy (I.E. "God is dead and we have killed him!")

No, but I certainly agree with much of what Nietzsche thinks of religion.

4. Why has sexism existed for such a long time?

I believe human culture is cylcical and ever-repeating. Human history and culture works in patterns.

Throughout history has been varying levels of racism, sexism, homophobia, etc. with some cultures having full acceptance and others being completely opposed to anything against tradition.

Sexism however and strong gender roles is one that has persisted throughout history.

In short I think it's because gender roles and the differences between how men and women are treated exist because men and women actually are biologically different, but overtime this resulted in people treating men and women different but not giving them the same opportunities in life.

I am very tired so sorry if any of my what i say is clumsily written or jumbled. I'd personally look forward to changing your body to that of a woman but remember you really don't have to if you dont want to and could ever identify as mtf but remain pre-op (which some people do).

Sometimes, it's truly pathetic to be a man---especially if the man allows himself to be pathetic.

There are times when I believe it would actually be fun to be a woman.

The word pathetic comes from the Greek word pathos, which means suffering or sadness.
Women are beautiful, and so are men. One of the most important things to remember is that every human is a divine, wondrous being full of love. Whether anyone else believes the same is irrelevant, because I'll love everyone just the same.

I do believe that.

I do believe that.

However, sometimes, people make themselves less than beautiful with their less-than-beautiful actions.

1. not necessarily, although from an evolutionary standpoint i think social themes effect biological outcomes and vice versa.
2. well, all human embryos start off biologically female and those with Y chromosomes don't start differentiating until about 2 months after gestation. outrider covered a lot of biological differences between females and males. they are pretty obvious...what i'm really fascinated by is cultural differences. for instance: on average, men from the united states throw a baseball better than women in the united states. however, women in the united states throw a baseball better than men from germany. this is a really simple example but it gives some perspective!
3. no.
4. humans suck.

but i don't understand how much these questions have to do with you as a woman and your eventual confrontation with your sexist father. also, i think it's truly pathetic to believe being a woman is pathetic. so why should you be proud of being a woman? well...
if women stopped working for one day everything would shut down. in general, women's perspectives are not inferior to men's perspectives, they are complimentary and most systems benefit from a more balanced gender ratio. women have historically fought hard and broken barriers to be able considered intellectual equals to men, which is no easy pursuit. i could bombard you with examples of women being awesome but i'm running out of time
unfortunately though, i don't think any of these things would have an impact on a hardened sexist. sometimes people are so stuck in their own defaults and psychological affects that they can't consider a different perspective. this is the case with many sexists in my experience. so i think its most important to be confident in being a woman for yourself, because your father may not ever change.

To find the source of anything, look at who it benefits from it the most. Sexism evolved largely because it benefits governments and elite ruling classes. It has been used through the centuries to create stronger military forces. The priority for women was to continue expanding the population through reproduction, and so by default the priority for men was to become soldiers, to protect and expand territory. An artificial division was made between psychological aspects of male and female, where females would be seen as the nurturing ones, since they were needed to raise children, and males were taught to dissociate themselves from their nurturing and caring qualities in order to be better soldiers (aka killers). Religious doctrine was put in place to reinforce these concepts, that varied according to the local culture, but for instance male circumcision has been used to wound males psychologically (it has been shown to change the neurological patterning of an infant).

I think it's kind of pathetic to judge your strength and abilities based solely on your sex. If you think being female makes you pathetic, then that's what you are.

I don't deny that males, on average, have more upper body strength and have physiological differences to women that would be difficult for us to top. That doesn't mean that women can't find ways around those limitations. And frankly, physical strength is not the litmus test for what makes someone strong. True strength comes from having the tenacity and the resolve to finish what you started. It comes from the ability to assert yourself without giving into aggression. Women are said to be good diplomats so does that mean men cannot be peaceful? Do men lack the strength of self control because of their testosterone? Not if he realises that his gender is only an incidental factor and not a determining one.