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What's harder?

What is harder?

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Without any physical or mental disabilities, which is harder:

1. Being a white, straight, cishetero poor person.

2. A middle-class female LGBT person of color.
 
Without any physical or mental disabilities, which is harder:

1. Being a white, straight, cishetero poor person.

2. A middle-class female LGBT person of color.

What is the bolded word?
 
Thanks Taylor and Rex...must be another of his joke threads that he never returns and responds to honestly.
 
It depends on what you are asking, I am assuming you mean life in general but will need more information on the individual and their life experiences to really make a judgment on that.
 
I want a 5th option, reading this retarded nonsense without laughing, definitely the hardest thing to do.
 
I don't see how the answer can be anything but the last option. It's a bit like asking, "all else being equal, is it better to call heads or tails?"
 
I change my answer... i would say it depends.

Though... being LGBT has a added internal strife to overcome... your body and mind are literally not agreeing with itself.... so it's got to be tough. White Males have the highest suicide rate among racial and gender demographics... but LGBT people in particular I assume have even higher.

Societal-wise... it depends entirely on the circumstance
 
Without any physical or mental disabilities, which is harder:

1. Being a white, straight, cishetero poor person.

2. A middle-class female LGBT person of color.

Depends on where they live... in Orange County or San Fran it would definitely be #2
In Rural bumb**** Idaho or Tennessee it would be #1
 
I don't see how the answer can be anything but the last option. It's a bit like asking, "all else being equal, is it better to call heads or tails?"

The only real conclusion based off of the information given is that the LBGT person will likely have a harder time of finding a mate (the extent of which would largely depend on location though) which could have a large impact on happiness and well being.
 
Depends on where they live... in Orange County or San Fran it would definitely be #2
In Rural bumb**** Idaho or Tennessee it would be #1

I would imagine it would be the opposite. #2 would have a much easier time finding a partner to help in more heavily populated areas
 
I want a 5th option, reading this retarded nonsense without laughing, definitely the hardest thing to do.

The hardest thing is being the most awesome person ever and having to put up with this stuff. Seriously, I get up some mornings and and am amazed that I handle it as well as I do, but then I remember just how awesome I am and everything is better.

:mrgreen:
 
Without any physical or mental disabilities, which is harder:

1. Being a white, straight, cishetero poor person.

2. A middle-class female LGBT person of color.

Wow, that's a pretty tough call. But worst of all would be if you were big fat one-nostriled Albanian hermaphrodite refugee with psoriasis and a flock-of-seagulls haircut, like in the Weird Al song:

So, finally I go over and I open the door and just as I suspected
It's some big fat hermaphrodite with a Flock Of Seagulls haircut and only one nostril
Oh man, I hate it when I'm right
So anyway, he bursts into my room and he grabs my lucky snorkel
And I'm like, "Hey, you can't have that!
That snorkel's been just like a snorkel to me!"
And he's like, "Tough."
And I'm like, "Give it!"
And he's like, "Make me."
And I'm like, "'kay!"
So I grabbed his leg and he grabbed my esophagus
And I bit off his ear and he chewed off my eyebrows
And I took out his appendix and he gave me a colonic irrigation
Yes, indeed, you better believe it
And somehow in the middle of it all, the phone got knocked off the hook
And twenty seconds later, I heard a familiar voice
And you know what it said?
I'll tell you what it said

It said
"If you'd like to make a call, please hang up and try again;
"If you need help, hang up and then dial your operator
"If you'd like to make a call, please hang up and try again;
"If you need help, hang up and then dial your operator."

[Chorus]

[Verse 3]
Well, to cut a long story short, he got away with my snorkel
But I made a a solemn vow right then and there that I would not rest
I would not sleep for an instant until the one-nostrilled man was brought to justice
But first, I decided to buy some donuts
https://genius.com/Weird-al-yankovic-albuquerque-lyrics
 
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Since I'm too cool to postpone a decision when I lack proper context, I voted that life is harder for the poor white guy. There is no greater indicator of lifespan than your income - poor people have shorter, less healthy lifespans than people in the middle class, regardless of their race, gender & sexual orientation. At least in America, that is - your mileage varies from country to country, depending on what kind of food is available for the poor & a few other factors. Japan, for example, has everything from rice to sushi available with equal or greater prevalence than American-style fast food; as a result , obesity and health problems are significantly less prominent, even among the poor people of Japan. The video below does a good job breaking down exactly what options are available to the average Japanese citizen in terms of cheap food.

 
Without any physical or mental disabilities, which is harder:

1. Being a white, straight, cishetero poor person.

2. A middle-class female LGBT person of color.

Depends. Where'd they start? What were their choices? How did their luck of the draw turn out with their community?

That white guy could very easily be someone who just decided to do something he loves that happens to not pay very well but he's content with his lot, and that middle-class minority woman could very easily be someone who beat the odds after being thrown on the street at 14 by her bigotted parents.

Or not. Perhaps he's a homeless vet and she's the daughter of a fairly open-minded and well-to-do family.

Not enough info.
 
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