Men and women?

Question

why are men stareotyped as strong and tough and women frail and weak??? Through out the ages men have always dominated women and I never knew why???

Answer 1

They dominated through Strong Arm tactics.

That doesn't work anymore, now that physical strength isn't vital to life. It's just a cool thing to have nowdays.

Because a man could dominate his wife physically she would fear him. So he was permitted control. Women didn't have anything to do about it.

It's a new day. A new millenium. If a man decided to beat some sense to me, he'd catch a knee to the nuts and a good solid lawsuit.

Some women will allow it to continue, for whatever reason. One day they'll snap and kill him. You know what? He'll have had it coming.

It's 2008. No one gets to own anyone else.

Answer 2

I think this dates back to cave man days when they used to drag women around by their hair.  

Then it just got worse when the founding fathers decided bare foot and pregnant was a good look for us.  

Then there was that pesky "no voting" thing. And the "No wife of mine is going to work!"

But it got better for a while...bras were burned in effigy...and chick Clinton was marching for this or that...We stated a LIB.

Then the "wife beater" came along, and all of a sudden it was, "B*tch..get me a beer!  Springers on."

And here we are now...Women running for President, women killing their abusive husbands, COE's of fortune 500 companies and still home in time to pay the babysitter and microwave dinner.

We've come a long way baby.

Answer 3

Men dominate women because men are programmed by nature to be dominant.  Compared to men, women are weak physically, that is not a stereotype, it is a self-evident fact.

Male dominance is universal and a fact of nature.  Civilisation can overcome nature to a certain extent, but no amount of equal rights legislation etc will ever alter this basic fact of life.

Answer 4

Men typically are larger and stronger than women (but there are strong and large women out there), but women are smarter.

I say so, because the average guy does stupid stuff (like lighting each other on fire, kicking each other in the crotch, you know, stuff you can easily find on YouTube) from their early adolescence, and throw in alcohol, and you've got yourself a guy!

Answer 5

Dude, look at nature. Do you see any female gorillas running the pack? I think not.

Same thing with humans. It's instinct.

Answer 6

With respect to the rapidly (and thankfully) diminishing utility of sheer physical strength in our considerably technologically-developed world, I'd characterize it as a kind of atavismic phenomenon (if you can even say that without violating some definitions...) that is now being used to perpetuate (or, should I say -- perpetrate...) the relegation of women to places of lesser political, economic, and sexual agency.  It is nothing more than a political and social tool of abuse.

Answer 7

Sexist stereotyping.

Answer 8

Do yourself a favor and don't worry about it; the moon comes out at night that's all you need to know; now when the moon starts falling towards Earth; then by all means worry.  Besides; when you look at it what is strong and tough? Some poor dear might be frail and have the voice of a man or the muscle man might have the voice of a woman. It's a crazy mixed up world we live in.

Answer 9

Genetically they are.. it's an empirical fact. Compare the average male to the average female and as a result of sexual dimorphism the male is larger. You could ask why is it that the sea drowns people. Is that right or wrong.. it's neither, it just does.

However, I don't try to make the naturalistic fallacy as many do that just because men are bigger and stronger they're better.

Answer 10

On the subject of gorillas.  The male stays with the young and cares for them while the women gather food.  The male protects the young.  Aren't the roles reversed?  Who really runs the pack.  You could look at it and think that the male worked for the women, protecting them and baby-sitting.  It's all up to your perspective.  

Napoleon was short, but he was the leader.  Size, as stated above does not equal superiority, even among men.    

It was really only in Victorian times that women were thought of as weak and that was only the middle and upper classes.  The underclass women worked in the factories just like the men.

Answer 11

It's an old sterotype from the days when girls wouldn't be allowed to partake in any sports of physical activies. Theyt would also wear unbearably tight coresets which woul cause fainting at any exhaustion.