Are men more giving than women?

[cowofzot]

Men are more willing to have sex, while women are more interested in shopping, which is a more selfish activity.

[Menard]

How do you equate sex with being unselfish?

Trust me on this: Women do not prefer shopping over sex; they prefer shopping over bad sex, but are more giving by being willing to go through with bad sex just to satisfy a man's purely selfish desire to get himself off.

[RCMerchant]

Yes. No. I dont know.
Wheres a scientist when you need one? 

[AndyC]

Yeah, seems to me that sex can be about giving and taking, and whether a man is good at it depends a great deal on which he focuses on.

Hard to say who is more giving in general though, and probably even harder to say it without offending somebody. Really, Male and Female psychology is in many ways an apples-and-oranges sort of thing. Could be that everything evens out and we do our giving and taking in different ways. Between innate tendencies, cultural influences, and individual personalities and experiences, it's a difficult thing to judge.

[cowofzot]

And when was the last time you got flowers from a female?

[Cthulhu]

It all comes down to persons.
You can't generalize like that.

[Menard]

And when was the last time you got flowers from a female?

Something you want to talk about?

[Menard]

It all comes down to persons.
You can't generalize like that.

Yes I can.

Next.

[Leah]

Men are more willing to have sex, while women are more interested in shopping, which is a more selfish activity.

Are you talking about cliches here? Or are you talking about college type people?

[cowofzot]

Women initiate arguments 80% of the time, which demonstrates they hidden Psychology that they think the relationship is about them or that is is about how THEY want it to be. A "me" not a "we" in other words.


body 
Prof. Gottman studies marriages the way biologists study

ecosystems,

"The biggest lesson to be learned is that the way couples begin a

discussion about a problem

He discovered that women initiate discussions about 80 per cent of the time

http://www.susanpinker.com/docs/2008_0416_women_in_law.pdf

[Cthulhu]

I feel like you're having some issues that you need to work out...

[cowofzot]

Not me, them.

[Menard]

Not me, them.

My god...anybody else sense a serial killer in the making here?


You brought up this discussion and more than one of us has asked what your issue is with women; not because we're feeling the love for you but simply because it is obvious.

[cowofzot]

I brought it up, no one forced you to participate.

[Menard]

It's a forum, so discussion is open.