Monday, August 31, 2026

What biological advantages do women have over men?

 Women generally live longer than men.

Women may have slightly better reflexes on average than men, which is why a disproportionate number of Wobbly Goblin pilots were women.

Women may have better pain tolerance on average than men.

Women on average have less raw upper-body strength than men, butgreater endurance.

Women are less likely to be colorblind and more likely to have superior color vision, in large part because the genes for color reception photopigments are carried on the X chromosome.

Thanks to that duplicate X chromosome, women are much less likely to suffer from X-linked chromosomal abnormalities like fragile X syndrome.