The puristic answer: Yes sure, girls can ride men's boards. Plenty of girls riding men's boards.
But it depends on the girl if it's "at all anymore difficult than riding a womens board"
I remember several members of this forum here prefering men's boards, and I ride them evers since. It's a very personal question of preferences.
Women's boards are
in general softer than men's, but carefull: it's a generalization. You need to compare boards of the same purpose and not at randomn (how does a women's Jones Mothership compare to a men's park noodle...?). If you compare specifically e.g. freeride boards, men's freeride boards will be gererally stiffer than women's freeride boards.
More averages... A girl the same hight as a guy is
in general lighter and has average smaller feet. Men's board the same size as a girl's board are
in general wider. If the board is too wide for your feet, it'll be harder to turn. Now which size and width is good for you, depends on your stance and angles and weight and experience and riding style...
So if you're an average girl (not meant in a bad way! I mean, not overly heavy, tall, bigfoot) and you're beginner (meaning you don't have aquired habits yet, no specific preferences, no weird binding angles), you're
more likely to find a suitable board in the girl's section. However, if you're that average girl, you're also not overly petite and might as well find a good board in the section with guy's beginner boards, if you
really don't find a girl's you like
BTW: Graphics are again an average thing... The Palmer Liberty Carbon '06 was actually the first women's board I've owned. Not the typical pinkish rainbow n unicorn girl's board :laugh:
If you're interested in snowboard gear review's of a girl:
Shayboarder.com | The World of Snowboarding Through Fembot Eyes
Edit: Holy! I'm really slow with typing... This thread was virgin when I began to type my answer and meanwhile already 14 answers are posted. My post might be outdated