Poll: Are Females More Proud and Vain Than Males?

[SeekingCatholic]

Are females more proud and vain than males?

Let’s discuss the religious and scientific causes of pride and vanity, and how they affect the genders.

 

[rpp]

Vanity is a form of pride.

I believe that men and women express their vanity (pride) differently, but are both equal in the capacity to commit what some call the most serious of sins.

Stereotypically, women may are more concerned with their appearance and their social status.

Stereotypically, men are more concerned with their physical strength, ability to provide which dictates their social status.

However, the modern feminist movement has introduced a whole new way for women to commit the grave sin of pride; the intentional confusion that gender equality eliminates gender differences.

 

[CentralFLJames]

I don’t know exactly how to answer this - by degree of pride/vanity or by frequency of same?

I have seen extreme examples supporting making a case for both genders and voted about equal on a percentage basis. But this could be a cultural bias too since we tend to observe based on our own local western environment. If however we wanted to objectively weight it by frequency and by degree according to gender then we might get a different perspective.

Population statistics, show about 3,248,080,000 males on the planet and around 3,214,983,000 females. That translates to males accounting for 50.25% of the population. Statistically this favors “men” being more proud and vain on a pure numbers basis.

However the United States has around 4.8 million more females than males. However, in China, males outnumber females by nearly 36 million. So it varies by region too I bet.

I’d say that pride and vanity are roughly paired in keeping with the co-fallen status of humanity and the roughly balanced numbers of each gender.

James

 

[drafdog]

The pride and vanity is displayed in different ways by men and women, so it is difficult to measure degrees of pride. Let’s just agree that humans are a vain and proud race.

Matthew

 

[Other_Eric]

It seems that I agree with most of the others on here. Vanity is expressed in different ways by each gender. Neither has a monopoly on this failing. Perhaps it would help if the OP’s terms were defined a little more precisely. On their own, pride and vanity are extremely broad, encompassing behaviors normally germane to each of the two sexes and some found in both.

 

[strngrnrth]

Men in studies have had inflated ideas of their own attractiveness (compared to how owmen rated them) and overestimated their performance on tests of knowledge and skill, whereas women were more realistic, so I’d say men are prouder. Of course, the difference fades when older subjects are used,a nd most studies involve young subjects, so it’s hard to generalize. The first genereation in which girls had as much self-esteem as boys by self-description was the one in elementary-middle-high school in the late 1990’s, and that generation is still young now, maybe 15-25, and that’s only in the USA. Worldwide, many women know their parents considered killing or selling them as small girls because they weren’t boys.
Men may think of women as 'proud" because women go to great lengths to gain male approval and then avoid some men. That’s a misunderstanding. We try to get male approval because everyone has a deep need for approval from both sexes. We avoid men who are unpleasant or who frighten us or who take but never give, because we are trying to protect ourselves from harm and have good lives, like all living creatures do.