Posted on 08/18/2006 10:11:45 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Vive la difference: Despite feminists, metrosexuals and gender-neutral language, we just can't surrender those old ways. Men, it seems, are still chivalrous, protective of their womenfolk and perhaps endearingly stubborn about certain things. And women? They like to shop, they're fastidious, and yes, they will ask for directions.
"American men and women tend to embrace many well-known sexual stereotypes, admitting to patterns of behavior commonly attributed to their gender," according to a poll released yesterday by the Scripps Survey Research Center at Ohio University.
"Recall that male passengers on the Titanic agreed to give up their places on the lifeboats for women and children," the researchers said in framing their question to more than 1,000 Americans. "If there were a similar life-or-death situation today, do you think men should be expected to die and allow women to live?"
Almost two thirds of the men -- a manly 63 percent -- said they should be expected to lay down their lives. Only 39 percent of the women agreed; 43 percent of the ladies, in fact, thought the idea was "old-fashioned," compared with 23 percent of the men.
Females had a practical edge: While almost half the men said that someone had told them that they were reluctant to ask for directions, the number was just 13 percent among women. And 65 percent of the guys had run out of gas while driving, compared with 47 percent of their feminine counterparts.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Oh yeah, that makes it better! *smack* *smack* :P
Don't worry! As soon as the Islamo-Fascists take over this subject will be come null and void.
You're right.
Why, yes, we do, how kind of you to notice.
We also complement each other. :-)
LOL!
If it was a Ship full of NOW members (FemNags) your damned right I would throw them overboard! And then I would yell Swim Bitch I see a Shark behind you!!! Equality is what Women are demanding. Recent Maritime disasters show Men outsurvive Women 8 to 1. Thats equality. Suck it up Ladies. This is what Women have demanded for 4 decades.
I think you meant this rant for someone upthread...
Uh oh, Hitlery ain't gonna like this one since she's the poster girl for EQUALITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL
u.s. women are a colossal disappointment.
Pinging you to 110, 'cause it's likely to get really interesting from here on out. ;-)
Got popcorn?
OK, I'll bite. I'd put up Tennessee girls against ANY women anywhere in the world! Beautiful, strong, fiesty, soft. Only a loser would be disappointed in them!
ROFL!!!!!
I rode shotgun or in the back if I wasn't driving.
Wow. Stick to beer. Liquor makes you cranky toward the womenfolk.
Good point.
Heck, we discuss *very* liberal authors all the time here...
Granted, that's different from purchasing the articles in print form, but even so...
yeah, whatever. you wanna talk about nyc women?
"Men, it seems, are still chivalrous, protective of their womenfolk..."
And this is bad because? I love men who are chivalrous and protective. Don't ever change guys!
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