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Just curious, why is it that our culture tells us to respect women but doesnt mention respecting men?

Is it something to do with the nature of women and how they are to be treated. Im getting the vibe that they want to be in control and want dominance in everything. I know women are a lot more sensitive then men so that maybe it. I do believe in respecting women, but I always wondered why that is brought up more than respecting men.

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  1. QuantumCaffeine - 36-40 years old - male

    Posted by QuantumCaffeine Jan 6th, 2013 at 4:05PM

    At a guess, it's because historically men were in charge of everything and got all the respect they needed pretty much automatically. Women were second-class citizens, so they didn't get the same kind of respect. So to balance things out, we needed an explicit instruction to respect them more.

    (Hopefully this is changing a bit now, but it all seems frustratingly slow...)

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  2. Thekidsmom - 36-40 years old - female

    Posted by Thekidsmom Jan 6th, 2013 at 4:06PM

    It is because most cultures have a religious background that has already set a standard for women to respect men, listen, even be "obedient" that was already established.

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  3. SpilledSecrets - 22-25 years old - female

    Posted by SpilledSecrets Jan 6th, 2013 at 4:05PM

    It's implied that men already have respect so it need not be mentioned. Men are generally in positions of more power, and therefore respect, while women had to fight for equal rights all the way up to the 1960's or 70's, and many would say later.

    With that said, I agree, men deserve respect as well. I don't like it when women use their gender as excuses to mistreat men.

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  4. honeypie29 - 26-30 years old - female

    Posted by honeypie29 Jan 6th, 2013 at 4:13PM

    It's bs. Respect should be earned, it shouldn't be some God given right because you have a pusssy!

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  5. Ketsan - 26-30 years old - male

    Posted by Ketsan Jan 6th, 2013 at 4:05PM

    http://youtu.be/vp8tToFv-bA

    Men are disposable; hence "Women and children first".

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  6. jagerjess - 46-50 years old - male

    Posted by jagerjess Jan 30th, 2013 at 5:08AM

    Yes id like to know that as well since god gave adam charge over eve

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  7. bornexplorer - 36-40 years old - male

    Posted by bornexplorer Jan 6th, 2013 at 4:30PM

    Don't mix up culture with personality. Culture is always in transition, and at present seems to be going through a phase of adjustment from male supremacy. This is exciting, but not hitch free because any change in culture is vulnerable to the dominant voices of that time. Sometimes it is shaped by the sacrificial acts of selfless people; sometimes it can be derailed strong personalities with their own interests in mind. Human beings are fallible regardless of gender.

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  8. badbinary - 36-40 years old - male

    Posted by badbinary Jan 6th, 2013 at 4:13PM

    its assumed that we will be so blind in pedastalling women we wont notice that

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  9. energeez - 31-35 years old - male

    Posted by energeez Jan 6th, 2013 at 4:07PM

    cause of the culture of disrespecting women. Ive had lots of mothers tell their daughters to respect me in certain situations though.

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  10. Krapsparov - 70+ years old

    Posted by Krapsparov Jan 6th, 2013 at 4:06PM

    men are ********...

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