Women are “the weaker sex”. If you’re living in a male-dominated world that just coincidentally happens to define “strength” by things that men happen to be good at.
But it turns out there’s quite a few important ways in which women are the physically stronger sex…
Ahh, the classic “if we redefine a word to not mean what everyone knows it means, we can put a clickbait title on it, and act as if it makes sense”
Don’t you think that they raise a good point about our perception of what “strong” means? It is totally clickbait, but I think that in the context of talking about the issue with defining men as the stronger sex it makes sense to use that title and show that the common perspective is not the only valid one.
We’re animals, it’s obvious what strong means: who would win in a fight…
Does it mean that being the stronger sex means much in our society? Not at all, but it’s a biologically obvious fact that in most species males are bigger & stronger than females.
And if you want to make the point that females have different strenghts go for it. Just don’t try to redefine something that everyone understands means something else already.
Strong is a word, made up like all words, and has multiple meanings like most words.
If someone said “that person is so strong” you couldn’t say without context if they mean that that person is physically strong or mentally strong. That sentence can apply to a person fighting cancer just as much as it can apply to a person fighting in the ring.
To me when someone says that a person is strong it does not immediately imply physical strength, so I don’t think you are right about your position.
It can have many meanings, in this context however the meaning is clear for everyone. This article is just clickbait for the sake of it. It’s like Jordan Peterson in his “debates” “what do you mean by … ?”
You can indeed start a semantic discussion about every word, as language is very complex. But in some contexts, like “the stronger sex”, everyone knows what it means. And i don’t see any value in redefining it, rather than just being informative and saying “but strength of this type isn’t everything, this is where the “weaker” sex excels”.
I just don’t agree with you on the fact that “the stronger sex” is so cut and clear. But I understand your point.