Why are guys so competive?

Question

Why are guys so competive?

Answer 1

My brother is this way. I could care less for competition but he resorts to elaborate lies just to gain a tactical advantage. In the end, he truly loses more than he realizes.

Answer 2

Men are competitive...because it is part of their genetic make up....if they aren't in hand to hand combat....they are busy storing up sports facts or history facts...so they can engage in mental battle....

Men are what they are...and they will not change...happy is the woman who accept her man....the way he is....

Answer 3

There are a number of reasons.

Traditionally, the male was the hunter, or these days the wage earner.  So competition proves who's best at this.  These days, I hasten to add, women earn wages too, but the "gene" are still there.

By the way, haven't you noticed that women are quite competitive too?

Another reason, what a woman wants in a man, above all else (and she certainly wants more but often doesn't get it!) is strength.  Competition is a way of proving to yourself (as a male) and to the ladies that you've got it.

Answer 4

Well, some would say that it's all about procreation.  You see, women already have most of what we need to pass on our genes.  We just needs 10 minutes or so of a man's time, and then we're good to go with making the babies.  Men need to convince a woman he's good enough for her to go to all the work of bearing his children.  Men that aren't competitive simply don't get to pass on their genes!  Will this ever change?  I really have very little hope that it will, sorry.

Answer 5

A gene pool that goes back thousands of years to a hunter/gatherer society.  Survival of the fittest.

Answer 6

In society today, men are given love, honor, respect, and support or the essentials of their self-worth based on achievement, money, power, status and image.  They must fight through the still present, nineteenth century confrontations allowed by society upon them from an early age to achieve those benefits and feelings of self-worth.  Since women are given through overprotection, even indulgence, the benefits of love, honor, respect, and continual support all of the benefits of self-worth from an early age without qualification (simply because they are girls), they are working with much continual support, attention, and interaction to accumulate more continual mental, emotional, social, and academic knowledge and skills that can be transformed easily into money, power, status, and image.  Even after this society’s protection, support, and view toward beauty and charm continually helps them in the information age.  

Today, many men are becoming angry because they losing more than jobs and status, they are losing out on those things they are seeking most of all, love, honor, respect, support, and self-worth.  The little bites they receive in the various media and the workplace accumulate over time and create much anger that touches on their feelings of self-worth.  If men fall behind more collectively, they may begin to retaliate more collectively, thus ending the present shield of over-protection for women.  This will mean much more abuse and crimes against women.  It will do well for all parents, teachers, employers to those in various media to be more kind to others, including Males.  LOL; one professional was attempting to find more role models for Male children.  He boasted that a Male child’s esteem goes up when they have one positive role model.  What he was unknowingly saying was that Males have such little attention that when they do receive that attention, they are very grateful.  This creates the large rise in esteem.  This fight for attention could be creating more misbehavior in Male children.