Men are actually the weaker sex.

Read as a reversal of the conventional cliché that women are “the weaker sex,” the line functions as a provocation: it suggests that what is labeled “strength” in men may be brittle—dependent on social privilege, emotional restriction, or fear of vulnerability—while women’s socially enforced resilience can amount to greater practical strength. In Weinberg’s intellectual milieu (psychology and social critique), the claim can be taken less as a biological assertion than as a commentary on gender roles: men’s status may mask fragility, and cultural expectations can make them less adaptable or less emotionally robust. The aphorism invites scrutiny of how power and toughness are culturally performed rather than inherently possessed.