Why are men and women genetically designed to oppose each other?

Question

Why do women have "sensual" bodies, yet a mind that values emotion over physical pleasure, and men have "masculine" bodies, yet value physical pleasure over emotion? Why were we genetically made this way for such a cruel setup, where men can easily take advantage and women become viewed as sexual objects?

Answer 1

I don't agree at all.  It goes both ways.

Answer 2

I'd like to answer this in several parts, if I may...

Why were we genetically made this way for such a cruel setup, where men can easily take advantage and women become viewed as sexual objects?

If you are speaking genetics, it is not about being made this way, it is about what has actually worked for survival. If the way men and women think and act did not work, we would not have survived as a race... or rather the things that DID work would have become dominant in our personalities.

As far as the taking advantage/s*x object assumption, I believe that is in the mind of the beholder. As a woman, I find that men take advantage only if you allow yourself to be the victim. If you love yourself and only get close to those men who prove that they value you, this will not be an issue, and you will find that YOU have the power you want in any relationship (in fact, an equal balance of power is ideal...).

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Why do women have "sensual" bodies, yet a mind that values emotion over physical pleasure, and men have "masculine" bodies, yet value physical pleasure over emotion?

Women need the extra padding (read fat) to help carry a pregnancy to term. It is why we store fat more easily and loose it more slowly than men.

Women tend to create strong emotional bonds for two reasons. We needed (long ago) a mate to stay with us and support us to take care of the children, AND the women were left behind to care for the children and interact with each other as a group while the men were off hunting for hours, sometimes even weeks. We HAD to get along, to appease and to have that emotional bond to our children, or we not have developed as a society.

Men needed less emotion as their evolutionary goal is to spread their seed as far and wide as possible, to as many women as possible. They did not need to even interact with other men as much, because hunting is like a team sport, not sharing and bonding.

The value of physical pleasure, IMO, is something we all enjoy. Men tend to focus on the physical pleasure of s*x, while women on hugging, cuddling, holding hands, and so on.

Answer 3

We are not designed to oppose each other. We are designed to complement each other.

Water is important. Food is important.

They are both different but neither oppose the other. They complement each other.

Get it?

People made the choice to oppose, not genetics.

Answer 4

You got it all wrong women and men are designed to blend; ours designs, thoughts desires are designed for that.

Answer 5

Well fear not, because men's weakness is s*x.   Women take advantage of their sexual "powers" all the time.

In the end, everything kind of balances out.

Well, unless you have a certain group trying to throw gasoline on the flames constantly. ...Then the supposed "imbalance" makes people lose sight of the real deal.

Answer 6

Well guys are very physical and thats what they find in a women. While women are more intellectual and emotional and they want that in a guy. Also not all guys fine that in a women, some guys want intellecutal women and some girls women want a physical man.

Answer 7

I don't actually agree with your analysis, but either way if it was true - the answer is that we were in no way "designed". Evolution is the work of chance processes, where only the changes beneficial to survival and reproduction get passed on.

Answer 8

Whoa...that's a whole host of ignorant assumptions you're making there.

Answer 9

Maybe God has a sense of humor. You should not let men take advantage of you.

Men give love for s*x

Women give s*x for love

Answer 10

opposite work well together, in this case making a baby (and dont deny that thats the original purpose of s*x

Answer 11

Lets see.

Women have lower upper body strength and cannot move well while pregnant. So its natural for them to be the ones to take care of the children While the man hunts.

Since a woman can get pregnant and is the one that care about the children, its natural for her to try to find a mate that will not abandon her and support her. This has being true trough most of human history.

Men on the other hand cannot get pregnant and having a bigger family help them considerable in the hunt. So its natural for man to be more into the fast and physical pleasure with as many women as possible. As it gives men a better change of having children and making the family bigger. That has also being true for trough most human history.

So thats why nature made man more physical and women more emotional.

Modern society try to change things, but any change takes time. You see women being more into physical pleasure and more men being emotional. In a sense we are learning to be something that we are not.

Answer 12

that's sort of like a feminist way of thinking.  also we are shaped by nature and nurture.  society makes the norms for how a man or women should act.  and that isn't quite true for all people.  some people like me are christians, and at least for me.  it's not about s*x or dominance.  i'm more concerned about serving christ.  sorry but sometimes i can be viewed as a sexual object too.  u might not think men care if women look at them lustfully.  some do.  also men get raped to sometimes by women.

Answer 13

i can't tell you why the world is made like that, because it is all in what you believe, but im glad is made like that, because it is sort of a balance between two sexes. I don't think women is viewed as sexual object ( well maybe through media). men was genetically made like back where they  was one with nature, and they had to be genetically fit. women had to had the most reasoning ... solving problem skills, and help taking care of the family. whatever happened though, it required less physical capabilities, and more mental capabiliites, and im so glad females have that. Men can naturally be more physically stronger than us, but once the get finish dominating us, who's gonna cook dinner?

Answer 14

Thats not true where are you getting your information from? Men and woman are the same either you want to believe or not. Men and woman can be emotional and Men and Woman can both be masculine. Men love emotions that why woman allure them so well. Woman love masculinity because it's a physical attribute. Men and woman like physical attribute either more or less depending on the person. People all don't have the same perception on life. Qualitys of  men and woman can be physical attraction or emotional . I remember I liked this girl only because  what her big forehead represented to me and thats it.

Answer 15

It's all in the Master Creator's Plan....Blessings Yahoo

Answer 16

I believe that opposites compliment each other.

Answer 17

what are you talking about? where are you from? Saudi Arabia?