Are women better than men?

Question

Why are women treated so much better in relationships?

Men usually pay for dinner, cook dinner, buy gifts, give emotional support, give massages/other pampering, plan and pay for trips, complement women, do other romantic gestures and take care of women when they are sick. Just wondering why women are treated better? Do any women actually do these things? Can any men say they are more spoiled?

Why are modern relationships like this (when things such as cooking dinner, giving massages/pampering, buying gifts,, taking care of when sick, planning trips, compliments and other romantic gestures are things that women stereotypically do?)

Most men would even go help their woman if her car is stuck in a ditch at 3 am and there's a blizzard outside. I don't think most woman would do the same for their man.

Answer 1

None are better than the other.

Answer 2

Women have been seen as needing aid, whether protection or support even in situations where they clearly don't need it.

Doesn't make them better though, its just a bit inequitable from a male point of view.

Answer 3

Get a good woman and you will have an equal relationship.

Answer 4

Sounds like you need to talk to your partner about what you want from a relationship.

I've been in countless arguments with my boyfriend over that sort of thing; he insists on paying, and I would much rather go dutch. I think we've reached an agreement now, though. As for trips, I do a ton of planning. I made my boyfriend cookies when he was sick earlier this year. So none of your stereotypes really apply.

If your girlfriend isn't meeting your needs, you should either talk with her, talk with a relationship counselor, or end it...

Answer 5

We aren't, and we aren't.

Answer 6

you have not met the right woman. men and women are both supposed to support each other.  i would absolutely help my man if he were stuck in a ditch at 3am. because i love him and i care about him i want him safe and warm with me.  we do this list of thing because we want our man to feel good and be happy, sounds like you do these things because you feel you are suppose to. in which case, i would say please,don't bother! find someone you actually love enough to want to do these things for. you will reap the rewards of being loved in return.

Answer 7

Neither s*x is intrinsically better or worse than the other.  Its just that women are the gatekeepers of s*x, and men should treat us well if they want to get any!  By the way, I don't expect a man to pay for dinner, etc.

Answer 8

You need to pick different women-not all women want a daddy. Many of us want to be a partner-not a daughter.

Answer 9

no they just have a great man.

Answer 10

To be honest, I think this question points to a person that has never had a serious relationship.  As other people have posted, males are dominate, (even with women acting for equal rights).  It's not the woman wanting the flowers and 'MATERIAL' objects it is as much as them wanting affection, how ever the male counterpart wants to show it.  Maybe over the last few generations, the thought of how to show affection has been currupted by TV and movies.  

I personally am the snuggle type and could give a d**n about flowers and chocolates.  I hate chocolates and flowers DIE!  This goes back to the Sonnet by Christopher Marlowe where he address the nymph with everything he wants to offer her; flock of sheep, sandles of gold, bed of roses...

Sir Walter Raliegh comes back with a sonnet as the nymph of Mr. Marlowes sonnet: (in a sense), Why would I want to be with you when everything that you're offering will die in a matter of time.  Will your love for me die like the gifts you offer me?

As far as the messages/pampering, I know for a fact that 80% of women, if not more (and not high maintenance women), do the same for their other half!  Maybe not as much but men have strong hands.  >:)

I have 'held my boyfriends hair back' on many occasions even though it has resulted in me vomiting myself.  He doesn't drive so I have picked him up and taken him where he needs to go at 3 AM which got me stranded!  So if you want to talk about irony to your question you could just look at my relationship.

Even though you won't respond to this question or look at what males/females answer to your question, know this...

I feel sorry for you.  The fact that either you have no life as to waste it writing this question or you just got dumped by the type of girl you describe.  Again, I feel sorry for you and wish you all the best.

Hope this helps.

Answer 11

Sorry, but your post is just a fantasy in your head.  Most heterosexual women I have ever met work hard at their relationships, while their men guzzle beer, cheat and neglect their wives.  Rarely do any men offer emotional support, so what you said is a joke!

The woman does more around the home, including repairs, handling phone calls and appointments, balancing the checkbook,  doing taxes, caring for the kids, caring for everyone at home who gets sick,  food preparation, giving emotional support, helping dig out the car in a blizzard, grocery shopping, doing his smelly laundry and putting up with his big mouth and lousy s*x...And the woman does ALL of these things on top of holding down a job and being neglected by her man.  He sure doesn't get up at 3 a.m. with her when the kids are sick with the pukes and diarrhea, or massage his wife and show her every day he's the right man for her.  You just have to find someone who is likeminded, otherwise you both will be unhappy.  But you shouldn't say that women are treated better in relationships when that's not typically the case at all.

Answer 12

I htink both have different attributes and qualities .

Men thinkt hey are smarter and better at making judgements

Women think they haev more emotions and are more caring and understanding .

They are both good at each thing but communicate it and are percieved in different ways .

Answer 13

what women are you dating? All my girlfriends have cooked dinner, massaged, planned trips, and pampered their man; but it does go both ways. We are not that different from cave men though, when it was the man's job to take care of his woman and provide for her, it's just done a little different these days. Since the majority of women work and are no longer housewives, less women have the time to prepare meals for their man nightly. Would you really want a woman to pay for all your meals and plan everything, it would take away your manliness.

I don't every remember hearing the stereotype of women buying their men gifts, planning trips, and giving them massages.

Have you ever tried calling on your girlfriend at 3 am when you are in an emergency and need her. I guarantee if she loves you and cares about you she would go help you. I would for my boyfriend, or any of my friends in need.

response to @XN:

it's common sense that men are better at sports than women, that is why there are leagues for men and women. There's never going to be co-ed basketball, and I have not heard any women throwing a tantrum because of this. You are writing as if you are shattering many people's beliefs by telling them this. Men and women are physically designed differently, we have different types of muscle fibers for example. Just because men and women are physically different does not mean that women are less intelligent, and I did not see any examples from you trying to prove that. I really hope you stay single, because if you had a wife, I could easily see you beating her if she "forgot her place." I'm not a feminist, but what you have to say is extremely sexist and ignorant. I am sure there are many women out there more intelligent than you.

Answer 14

No we are not better.

Men can do things we can't, and women can do things men can't.

Know body is better as a gender but better at certain things, Yes.

Answer 15

no such thing, as male as the dominant s*x, also to comes a responsibility. your question clearly points you as wet nosed

Answer 16

Well, that's a hard question, first of all, for some unknown reason, the male's hormones push him to take care of his girlfriend, I do not know what the woman's hormones are like so I cannot answer the last part of the question.