Mars versus Venus. Myths and stereotypes

Some male myths and stereotypes about the fair sex are so tenacious that they are persistently passed on from generation to generation.

Men are from Mars, women are from Venus. Meeting and getting to know each other, they discover other, mysterious worlds. Alas, sometimes both men and women, being at the mercy of prejudices and prejudices, why in vain slander each other, only exacerbating the eternal conflict between the two halves of humanity. Some myths and stereotypes are so tenacious that they are persistently passed down from generation to generation. Let's try to find out their nature and, if possible, debunk.

All women are mercantile

Perhaps the most common male answer to the question of purely female flaws. It just so happened that men have a higher "degree of desire" than women, and it is more difficult for a woman to decide on sexual intercourse - there are too many restraining factors. Whoever needs more, he tries to achieve the goal in various ways, including bribery. Often men themselves offer women some kind of reward for sex, and the line between morally justified “barter” (“in the process of courtship, he presented me expensive gifts, and I will give him my body as a token of gratitude”) and ordinary prostitution is very shaky and conditional. The woman also takes care of better conditions for the existing or future offspring, and instinctively gravitates towards a better-off (and therefore powerful) male. Finally, you cannot forbid living beautifully; all the more so that wherever you spit - everywhere one continuous glamor.

Just as not all cats are red, so not all women are greedy and greedy. For most women, no matter how trite it sounds, it is much more important to have spiritual comfort and constant attention from a loved one.

And men who are trying in every possible way to disguise their complexes like to talk about the general female commercialism.

Women are much more practical and pragmatic than men

Some 15-year-old girl on the part of romanticism will give a hundred points ahead to any stunned peer - on a moonlit night she sits on the windowsill, listens to the singing of nightingales and composes poetry. But then the girl gets married, gives birth to children, plunges into the household and … turns into a stuck robot. She rushes through the streets with huge bags in her hands and knows by heart what, where and how much. At home she walks in a tattered dressing gown, in curlers and with cucumber circles on her face, but at the same time she is ready to kill anyone who stomps into the living room in shoes, and even hangs a sweater not in the closet, but on the back of a chair.

Before inviting his wife to a theater or restaurant, the husband needs to pick up a vacuum cleaner. Or wear an apron. Or heat up an iron. And if after such a man's feat the woman does not blur into a smile and does not run to direct a marafet, then the poor man can only sympathize - he has come across a rare bore. It is rare, because the divine verses about “scarlet blood” and “fatal love” are carried by most women in their hearts throughout their lives.

Women love to throw a tantrum for the sake of tantrum

Almost all modern men have at least a general idea of the female menstrual cycle, postpartum depression, and menopause. But still, from a male point of view, such drastic changes in mood look wild - for no reason, a woman begins to scream, cry, blames the person closest to her for all mortal sins, reproaches herself for the wasted best years of her life, threatens to leave to my mother, or even file for divorce altogether.

In such situations, the only way out for a man is to endure. Do not yell with her for a couple: “What got into you? Yes, you yourself are so-and-so!”, Do not bother with advice, but simply listen and console, stroking the head and pressing it to her chest - until the woman herself begins to ask for forgiveness for everything. But sometimes such breakdowns are repeated every day twenty times, and the woman literally sucks the reasons for the scandal out of her finger. Here a man must delicately persuade his wife to see a doctor. If a frying pan flies in response, then you will have to seriously think about parting. After all, women abandon their alcoholic husbands, and they do the right thing, so why should a husband suffer with a hysterical wife?

Women are characterized by increased talkativeness

Compared to men, of course, although there are quite a few representatives of the stronger sex in the world, whose tongue is like a device for sweeping the streets. The whole trick is that in the process of communication, the hormones of happiness are activated in the brains of women. Gathering together, all women speak at the same time, almost do not listen to their interlocutors, constantly interrupt each other, saturate their speech with interjections, oohs and oohs. Communication takes place not on an informative, like in men, but on an emotional level. Also, women are more likely than men to talk to themselves.

Women are dumber than men

Men think logically, and women figuratively. Men laugh at female logic - in this case, women can laugh at the clumsy male mind.

In recent years, there is a clear tendency - there are significantly more women than men who solve crosswords in the subway and electric trains.

When a woman's intellectual level is below the plinth, then a man shouldn't call her a fool. Better to remember the quote from an old TV series about a hospital on the outskirts of the city: "If stupidity had wings, you would be a dove."

Among women, there are negligible figures in science and culture

For millennia, women have been barred from education. To boil cabbage soup and milk a cow - that's all woman's science. The situation began to change dramatically only in the twentieth century, so women scientists will still take their toll.

There are really not so many women among the great writers, artists and composers. Women, unlike men, do not accumulate emotions in themselves, so that later they can retire and give birth to some kind of brilliant work. Also, women in general have better imaginations and a sense of beauty. So she will put on an elegant dress, go for a walk to the botanical garden, see a withering rose there, remember a past unsuccessful romance and cry, not at all embarrassed by the bewildered glances of other walking people. Here is an oil painting for you - the woman completely satisfied her creative urge.

Woman and humor are incompatible concepts

Women are already bashful by nature, so the rules of decency from time immemorial have told them to frown and feign indignation when a man let go of even the most innocent joke. Laughing, women still cover their mouths with their hands. They don't exchange fresh anecdotes. If women and undertake to joke, then exclusively on the topic of gender relations: "A man is a goat, a woman is a smart girl."

Yes, a woman would never have written "The Adventures of the Gallant Soldier Schweik" or directed "American Pie" and "Scary Movie". Women's jokes are not as heavy and frank as men's ones, and really relate to such concepts that are close to women as love, marriage, married life, and everyday troubles. But what cannot be taken away from women-humorists is self-irony. They boast of the ability to park, and they will tell about the trip to Paris and the seven-day excursion around the Galeries Lafayette department store, and they will tell about the envy of the owners of the cherished 90x60x90. And then: even if only women laugh at women's jokes, this is not so little.

Women strive to completely seize power over men

Such plans are hatched only by radical feminists. Today women are actively mastering "male" professions, are engaged in business and politics, take the initiative into their own hands and are not afraid to make decisions. Men listlessly resist, but slowly give up dominant positions.

Due to the fact that men and women are increasingly changing places, small social imbalances arise, but, thank God, it is not yet necessary to talk about the final and irrevocable transformation of men into miserable henpecked.

The struggle of women for freedom and independence is a sacred thing, but even the ancients noticed that harmony rules the world. And for this, men must remain masculine, and women - feminine.