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 ...
The media is bored. Journalism is an extinct profession.
This belongs in the breaking news section. LOL
Of course the guys running out of gas was because they were out 4 wheelin.
The ladies were rushing to a sale at Bed-Bath-and Beyond.
:)
"We are designed that way."
OH NO! you just turned this into an evo thread.
The other 37% are known as "liberals".
So then 27 percent of the respondents would throw the ladies overboard to save their own sorry hides?
REALLY??
Then why are they so difficult to find??????
If your a born-again single Christian male in that 63% FRMail me!
LOL
wow, I am soooo shocked by this report.
the next report will remind us that "bears still sh*t in the woods"...
Er....37%. My mental math functions aren't working too good today.
"U.S. men, women still worlds apart"
Why doesn't the author compare men and women in some other country, such as Saudia Arabia and see how far apart they are?
these feminists are just so self destructively stupid and angry it is pathetic!
I NEVER want to be treated "equal" to any man.
I want to be treated BETTER!
so back-off Bubba and let me on the life boat.
Nah, you were just counting the GLBT community as the other 10%.
Huge shocker here!
Well, DUH. We never let a woman drive when we are in the truck. I am worried about the 35% that let a woman drive them around....
Would it be too much to ask that this not become a Crevo Crap thread?
This is hugh...
Perhaps it has something to do with us being already married?
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