What makes a man respect a woman?

Question

A question posed on here earlier suggested that feminism is about respect for women rather than rights for women. So I would like to ask the men on here what qualities or abilities in a woman make you feel respect for her?

Answer 1

The way she carries herself, there accomplishments, attitude. To be completely honest its more of what level of respect. I will respect the random woman walking down the street, but I will have more respect for a single mother or female politician or doctor because I know something about them.

Not so much love. I respect Hilary Clinton and the woman across the street for raising her kids by herself, doesnt mean I love them.

Answer 2

The same characteristics that I respect in a man. However if I can tell that someone doesn't respect me, it makes it very hard for me to respect them back. As a man I don't feel a lot of respect from feminists, to say the least e.g. this is from Prof Germaine Greer, often featured in the UK media:

"God knows how many women already have no use for their men, who are all too often idle and incompetent both as wage-earners and around the house, uninterested in the children and hopeless in bed…"

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn...

Answer 3

Her virtues come 1st. The way she treats people including herself that is.

2ndly, if she’s doing her work properly & affecting me in a positive way I would sure appreciate it & my admiration for her would shoot up. So, let say if she’s my college professor & teaching me valuable knowledge. Or, if she’s a school teacher & taking a good care of my children. Or even if she’s serving our country in the military.

Answer 4

The same reasons I respect anyone else, man or woman, boy or girl, homosexual or straight.

I respect them if they try to earn respect instead of demanding it as 'strong, independent women'.

I respect them if they are patient and understanding instead of shrill, bossy and domineering.

I know these might not be very valid reasons, but it's hard to find a 'respectable' woman who's not shrill and domineering and doesn't demand respect.

Kindness, gentleness and the rest are human traits and not feminine traits, so I left them out as this question is relevant to female characteristics men respect.

Answer 5

the most of it is the respect that we can give each other and when it comes that we can work in a team and grow together that respect is the women in the leader in Meany ways for which we can not list for it would take long.

love   respect   to place the things in the home in some order and when we can work together we have qualities that we both benefit

Answer 6

The integrity she displays

Secondly, her willingness to use slapping to chastise...

OR a spanking

Answer 7

Well women are able to give birth to a baby, Men can't, So women are much more respectable from my view,

Answer 8

dignity & loyalty

Answer 9

Men respect  a woman  with selfconfidence,dignity and high standard.

Answer 10

Respect is not an entitlement, it must be earned. I believe it's primarily based on one's character, regardless on one's accomplishments. If a woman is loving, kind, loyal, generous, helpful, honest, and hard-working, then she can expect a decent man to appreciate and value her character and show her due respect. A woman who doesn't manifest such characteristics has no basis for expecting respect from men.

Answer 11

She being herself makes men to respect her.

Answer 12

When he chooses to do so, just like when a woman chooses to respect a man, its a choice.

Answer 13

Hahaha Adnrei!  A woman even hears the word quantum and she thinks, "OMG nerdy stuff teehee run away!"

The biggest things a woman can do to earn the respect of (decent) men:  

-Not freak out about little things.

-Control your emotions, not the other way around (very rare in women)

-Don't flaunt your degree as if it means you're intelligent.  Intelligence and education are 100% different.

-Never say anything along the lines of, "Whatever, I don't need a man for ------"  Duh, you also don't need a car or flarducci whatever hand bags.  You only NEED food, water, and shelter.

There are more things to list, but are less important.

One big thing in the dating game I respect a woman for:  Making the first move.  As I would never accept any other woman as my life long mate.  I want her to be able to break societal norms and live life her way.

Answer 14

She should be honourable and opened minded

Answer 15

True respect is a very elusive thing.  It gets even harder to pin down when the person receiving the respect might get on the person's nerves by being either inconsiderate, or overly arrogant (not just your average arrogance.)

In the workplace, at what she does, she needs to hold their own (who respects a broken chain link?).  In what she does, she needs to act efficiently (who respects a wasteful person?)

I won't pretend to know about the specifics, but I know that these two MUST be present

Answer 16

Well, one would hope men had the honor to respect women like Mara Prentiss, Quantum Mechanics physicist ( Harvard) who was the first person in history to recently stop a photon in mid-air and take a snapshot if it.  That snapshot, by the way revealed a pattern that was like a HUGE missing link in a Chaos pattern research project I'm doing and her work and other female physicists' work have contributed significantly to CERN's current mind-boggling human-condition-changing team project being conducted at the laboratory’s flagship research facility, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).  That experiment in August, I believe, will change the world.  It's the pinnacle of human scientific achievement and exploration.  Respect for such women has traditionally been withheld by men based on ego-fragilities and dishonest / dishonorable character weakness and delusions of "male intellectual superiority" and self-importance.

http://www.physics.harvard.edu/people/fa...

Answer 17

Integrity, loyalty, compassion, empathy, intelligence, accomplishments, beauty--essentially, all the characteristics which one founds in ennobling in others.  My wife is by the far the best human being I met.  For this reason, and for this reason only, I respect her.

Answer 18

The love he has for her.

Answer 19

i would say respect varies from one country to another and one culture to another...but in general would be ....respect for a woman will be based onhow much she respect herself..the way she dresses, talks, attitudes etc etc...

she she respect herself..the rest will generally follow  through...

PEACE

Jaydee

Answer 20

An equally good question is, "What makes a man able to respect a woman?"  Being able to respect someone is a quality just as being respectable is.  You have to seek out a man/men who is/are capable of respect, then being respected is much easier.  One essential component also is the ability to accept respect...we see all the time people who sabotage relationships because they haven't seen themselves as worthy, so they don't believe it when they experience it.

Men vary significantly more than women in many aspects(in men, there are three times the amount of mental retardation, three times the amount of psychopathology, and a similarly disproportionate amount of genius).  Put simply, men are all over the board, while women are more similar in mental traits.  For someone seeking respect from a man, I'd say just keep hunting, have respect for yourself, then the man may come along who will acknowledge respectable traits - probably many men will acknowledge respectable traits and even more will appreciate those respectable traits without showing their appreciation.  One thing about respectable deeds/traits, there are a lot of people who are inspired by others but never have the ability to, or the impetus to, acknowledge the inspiring people.

Some common respectable traits:

1)evidence of determination and hard work, such as advancement in career or physical developement.

2)morale integrity, such as standing on principles against personal gain, or honesty.

3)compassion and empathy.

[in my personal observation, the people who seem to be the wealthiest, best looking, or are the smartest are rarely the most respected in society]

Answer 21

People give you the respect that you command and think you deserve. If you let them belittle you, they will. Just don't.

Answer 22

Pff. They don't know what they want, how can they know what to respect?

You just got to be who you are.

Answer 23

Her earning power.

Her advanced education.

Answer 24

The only thing I have ever found is, directness, confidence (which makes her s**y also) and Imagination. With this combination alongside her journey into life’s experiences is unbeatable

i can and will expand on this if you wish!!