Who is the happier gender?

Question

Who is happier? Men or women and why?

Answer 1

Men, they have more freedom and are allowed to live fulfilling lives. They don't get pregnant, have periods or anything like that so they run a low risk of being single parents and living in poverty because of it. They are naturally accepted in society from the day they are born and they are naturally respected.

Answer 2

Reading in the paper yesterday aparantly women. I don't know, I think that men are too opressed by eachother. They judge and mock eachother if one of them is slightly different.

Answer 3

Men are way happier, women have to have drama in their lives.

Women look to men to make them happy and the dumb men who try stop being happy.

Answer 4

Adding to Patois: this is an area that I have studied.  Women actually attempt suicide two to three times more often than men, but men use surer methods such as firearms.  This accounts for men being "successful": in commiting suicide roughly 6 times more often than women. Also there is, in Australia, roughly 10 attempts admitted to hospital for every successful suicide regardless of gender, and this is typical in western nations.

When it comes to happiness, I am not sure which is happier.  As a teacher, I see more female students suffering depressive symptoms than boys, though the difference is not huge.  As non-PC as this will sound, I think that many girls (adolescents) talk themselves into negative thought patterns at times.  Male adolescent depression expresses differently in general.

When it comes to adults, I guess that determining who is happier depends on what means you use to setermine happiness.  It could be possible that one s*x is generally happier yet still have the higher rates of depression and suicide.

Answer 5

Neither and both.  I don't think there is any difference in the ability to be happy or sad.  Fully human people have emotions that fun the gamut between elation and great sadness.

Answer 6

women because there are more men commiting suicide than women,

women are always happy because the world attends to everyone of their needs but the world doesn't give a d**n about what men need and that's why alot commit suicide.

Answer 7

Women are diagnosed with depression three times as often worldwide as are men and men commit suicide two to three times more often than do women.  Male suicide rates over 40 are beginning to decline due to changing gender role expectations.  Men and women express depression differently due to gender role expectations: "Because of this, male depression is usually associated with self-criticism and repression of emotions. Women, on the other hand, usually have depression problems based around dependency and low self-esteem".

Answer 8

I would definitely have to say that in general men are happier.

They don't have to deal wit the everyday problems and pressures that women do.

Women have to really think and get to know a man before s*x.

Where men just stick their THING in anyTHING.

Women have to much on the line like pregnancy and their reputation.

Plus one a monthly basis women have to deal with periods which take them thru mood swings and other stresses.

While men run wild and live free!