Do men have more needs than women?

Rose65 said:
It's not meant to be serious, only conjecture about an idea. The survey merely indicates something I always suspected anyway, that men do need and like a lot of looking after.
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Meant to be serious or not, that's exactly what these things do and is their goal to do. See my previous comment. It's making me wonder if I think like a man and questioning my feminity which is BS. Just because I like to pop bubblewrap and control the remote and hate make-up,, etc. doesn't mean I'm not feminine.
 

This has turned into an interesting thread.

The OP, in the first paragraph, reads:

"Listening to Radio 4, I cannot remember the programme, but they discussed the saying that men think about 'you know what' every 6 seconds. To test this, a survey was conducted at a university where girls and boys were given a clicker and told to click it every time they had ANY need or urge - food, drink, sleep and so on."

This sets the parameters of what was tested. It's about "you know what".

The third paragraph expands on that and wonders if it were expanded to other topics. Yet few really want to address that first result - do you think it's accurate? Do you think it's true? Then we start to attack the idea of a stereotype, where stereotypes are generalization based on evidence. They may or may not be correct, but I'm not convinced they are.

Given the era I grew up in, the stereotype holds pretty well. My wife stopped working the day we were a couple. She didn't like it, didn't enjoy it, and I could support her. She had the task of making sure I had a home to come home to. Is this really different from y'all?
 
Still smells like there is a minefield here but...

I might be younger. My ex stopped working as children came along, but within a couple years we arranged child care and she went back to work each time. It wasn't about financial need though additional income had its benefits. I think by my time social pressures had stopped being as rewarding to women taking a strictly traditional role in society, which made working about fulfillment and self worth. But she also knew her mother as a working woman, at least after the kids in her family were in their teens.
 
dilettante said:
Still smells like there is a minefield here but...

I might be younger. My ex stopped working as children came along, but within a couple years we arranged child care and she went back to work each time. It wasn't about financial need though additional income had its benefits. I think by my time social pressures had stopped being as rewarding to women taking a strictly traditional role in society, which made working about fulfillment and self worth. But she also knew her mother as a working woman, at least after the kids in her family were in their teens.
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HA! I'd certainly not claim my way was the right way, the best way, or the correct way. I agree with the idea of "self worth". It just wasn't my experience. My wife did not want to work. Period. Honestly, we didn't even discuss it. It's what she wanted, and I was happy I was able to make her wishes come true. Personally? It would have been better for her to work. But she didn't agree - so...........
 
Not to sound judgmental but, men carry a comb and a wallet. Have y'all seen the inside of a woman's purse? I think it's safe to say that women are definitely the more needy of the species.
 

MarciKS said:
Not to sound judgmental but, men carry a comb and a wallet. Have y'all seen the inside of a woman's purse? I think it's safe to say that women are definitely the more needy of the species.
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To expand on that, I know my wife has at least 10 x the number of clothes in the closet than I have. And at least 10 x the number of products in the bathroom compared to me. If you would ask her she would say she "needs" them all. Maybe she is just more "needy" than me. I think that is a better measure of needy than a clicker count.šŸ˜Š
 
my purse has now become a backpack. it was a 6 lb. purse. i hate to wager a guess at what the backpack weighs. if i remember i'll set it on the linen scale in the basement at work tomorrow and see. lol!
 
MarciKS said:
my purse has now become a backpack. it was a 6 lb. purse. i hate to wager a guess at what the backpack weighs. if i remember i'll set it on the linen scale in the basement at work tomorrow and see. lol!
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My handbag is also crammed full. We just like to be prepared that's all.
 
Cirumstances depict the number of needs for men and women.
 

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