Common Sexual Stereotypes of Men:

Men are tough and powerful. Men are unfeeling and

insensitive. Men are logical, sensible and rational. Men are afraid
to commit in a relationship and form an attachment. Men are
primarily interested in their careers or vocations. Men do not have a
primary interest in marriage and parenthood.
Common Sexual Stereotypes of Women:
Women are helpless and childish. Women are sensitive and
intuitive. Women are scatterbrained, unstable and
irrational. Women can easily form deep emotional
attachments. Women do not have a primary interest in their careers
or vocations. Women are primarily interested in a long term
relationship and parenthood.
When we look at the way society sees men and then at how it views
women, we can see that society actually pits men and women against
each other.
Some sexual stereotypes that pit men and women against
each other include:
Men are tough and powerful, not helpless and childish like
women. Women are sensitive and intuitive, not unfeeling and
insensitive like men. Men are logical, sensible and rational, not
scatterbrained, unstable and irrational like women. Women easily
form deep emotional attachments, they arent afraid to commit in a
relationship and form an attachment like men are. Men are
primarily interested in their careers or vocations; these are not
secondary interests as they are with women. Women are primarily
interested in a long term relationship and parenthood; these are not
secondary interests as they are with men.
How does a sexual stereotype impact sexuality?
There are stereotypes about women and men that specifically pertain
to sexuality. Society views a man who does not comply with these
stereotypes with suspicion. Whats wrong with this guy? He has no
balls. A woman who does not comply with these stereotypes gets
chastised. Get a load of this slut! Shes a nymphomaniac.
Sexual stereotypes about men and women that pertain to

sexuality include:
Men are more sexual than women. Women are not that interested
in sex. Men have more sexual experiences and fantasies than
women do. Women are not as sexually active and dont think about
sex as much as men do. Men are more sexually aggressive and more
sexually oriented than women. Women are more passive sexually
and dont want sex as much as men do. Men are more random and
want variety more than women do. Women are basically
monogamous. Men are impersonal in their sexual encounters; they
relate to women as sex objects. Women are not interested in a
casual sexual encounter. They only want to be sexual if they are in
love with the guy.
Debunking a Sex Stereotype
In truth, men and women are more alike than they are different. Both
men and women have essentially the same desires in life and seek the
same kinds of satisfactions with each other. Both want sex, love,
affection, success, dignity and self-fulfillment. They want to be
acknowledged first as unique individuals, then as men and women.
Some truths about men and women are:
Most men and women are feelingful and emotionally expressive. Most
also struggle with their defenses against feeling. Most women and
men are interested in business, finance, scientific ideas, mechanical
matters, politics and abstract ideas. Most men and women are
interested in domestic activities such as design, cooking, childrearing
and fashion. Most women and men find satisfaction in having a
career or vocation. Most men and women place importance on their
identity as a sexual person. Most women and men desire a sexual
relationship that includes emotional and physical intimacy. Most
men and women have a strong desire for a lasting affiliation with the
opposite sex. Most women and men have a strong interest in
procreation and parenthood. Most men and women have a very
strong desire to be in love with each other.

Men and Women

There are also some common stereotypes of men and women, such
as:

 Men are strong and do all the work.

Men are the "backbone."
Women aren't as smart as a man.
Women cant do as good of a job as a man.
Girls are not good at sports.
Guys are messy and unclean.
Men who spend too much time on the computer or read are geeks.

Cultures
Stereotypes also exist about cultures an countries as a whole.
Stereotype examples of this sort include the premises that:
All white Americans are obese, lazy, and dim-witted. Homer
Simpson of the TV series The Simpsons is the personification
of this stereotype.
Mexican stereotypes suggest that all Mexicans are lazy and came
into America illegally.
All Arabs and Muslims are terrorists.
All people who live in England have bad teeth.
Italian or French people are the best lovers.
All Blacks outside of the United States are poor.
All Jews are greedy.
All Asians are good at math. All Asians like to eat rice and drive
slow.
All Irish people are drunks and eat potatoes.
All Americans are generally considered to be friendly, generous,
and tolerant, but also arrogant, impatient, and domineering.

Groups of Individuals
A different type of stereotype also involves grouping of
individuals. Skaters, Goths, Gangsters, and Preps are a few
examples. Most of this stereotyping is taking place in schools. For

example:
Goths wear black clothes, black makeup, are depressed and hated
by society.
Punks wear mohawks, spikes, chains, are a menace to society and
are always getting in trouble.
All politicians are philanders and think only of personal gain and
benefit.
Girls are only concerned about physical appearance.
All blonds are unintelligent.
All librarians are women who are old, wear glasses, tie a high
bun, and have a perpetual frown on their face.
All teenagers are rebels.
All children don't enjoy healthy food.
Only anorexic women can become models.
The elderly have health issues and behave like children.

#6. Women Can't Drive and Park For Shit

There is allegedly one thing women and blind men have in common: their ability
to navigate. Even Google loves this stereotype, tossing back an impressive
75,200,000 hits when we typed in "women can't park."

Then there are the supposed differences in the ways women and men get from one
parking spot to the next, a practice often referred to as "driving." According to the
Hollywood formula, men navigate by compass directions and a stubborn refusal to
ask for directions ever, while women get from here to there by using landmarks, a
winning smile and a little leg. Tell a woman to turn north, then east and then north
again and every sexist comedy writer we polled here at Cracked agreed she'd get
turned around faster than a frog in a blender.
So, if this ridiculous stereotype were true, then Mother Nature has given men a
serious edge in the "getting around" department. But that can't be right, because
the decade of the 70s promised us that Mother Nature doesn't favor people based
on race, sexual orientation or whether or not there are dangly parts between their
legs.

This is what equality looks like.

What Science Says:

Several studies have shown that heterosexual men are better at both navigating by
north-south directions and at orienting themselves in three dimensional space than
women. Why did men win the spatial perception jackpot? No, the answer isn't sex
this time, it's food. Well, actually, it's both.

Some things aren't better when combined.

In the days before grocery stores and mini malls, mankind had to actually go hunt
and gather for his daily mammoth chops. Scientists think that testosterone helped
early men find their way home again after a long day of hunting, ensuring that
they were the ones impregnating their mates and continuing their line while the
spatially challenged became saber tooth tiger snacks.
Not only that, but one researcher actually scanned the brains of over a million kids
and found that by age four, the boys were already surpassing the girls in spatial
ability by a ratio of 4:1. She also found that while girls did just fine at seeing two
dimensions in the brain, boys had the ability to see a third dimension, allowing
them to understand the concept of depth at an earlier age.
And yeah... the same isn't necessarily true for gay men, who tend to navigate like
women. Literally. That was not an insult.

#5. Men Are Freaking Slobs

If detergent commercials have taught us anything, it's that the female nose is so
highly evolved that it can pick out the stench of sweaty gym socks from a
thousand paces. And once she has the scent in her delicate nostrils, a real woman
cannot rest until the malodorous insult has been found, eliminated and replaced
with a Linen Tides Breezy Cotton Fluff-n-Fresh (Now With Real Strawberries!)
scent.
Their men, meanwhile, can wear the same sweat-stained T-shirt for a week, and
will let garbage pile up in the kitchen until somebody calls the health department.

But that's loco right? It's like saying women were predisposed toward cleaning up
after men or something, which is totally whack.

 She LIVES for this shit.

What Science Says:
Women really are better sniffers than men. This is despite there being no physical
differences between the male and female nose or the number of receptors they
have. Not only are women better at detecting smells, but studies have also shown
that women use a bigger chunk of their brains when processing smells than men
do.

"Is that wet fish offal I smell?"

So why the difference? What biological reason can there be for your mom to be
able to detect your sweat soaked socks through a closed door? The same reason
that she was able to detect your dad's horny musk: sex. And though women
generally detect all odors better, their noses really won the stink jackpot by having
the knack for detecting male body odor.
Why? It seems that locked in that sweaty stench are chemical markers that can tell
a gal when a fella is sexually aroused, even without her knowing it. Plus a
woman's superhuman sense of smell is at its peak just as she's ovulating. So what
does this mean for you? Forget Ax body spray. If you want to get laid, you need to
smell like you've been watching porn in a sauna.

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#4. Women Are Wimps

This is as basic as stereotypes get. Guys are bigger and stronger and traditionally
are thought of as the more badass of the sexes. Women are frailer, smaller and
prone to the sniffles at the slightest injury.
The one exception, of course, is childbirth, when even the weakest woman is an
Amazon warrior when it comes to tolerating labor pain that would make a grown

man whimper like he just took a paintball shot to the nuts. So call a woman frail,
and she'll reply that if men had to give birth, the human race would have died out a
long time ago.

What Science Says:

Women do have a lower pain threshold, but it has nothing to do with toughness.
Men simply don't feel pain the same way women do, and what they do feel, they
feel a lot less of. Women have more pain receptors in their skin for starters,
amplifying their exposure to aches and pains.
Researchers believe it might be tied to the presence of GIRK2, a nifty little protein
that not only affects pain threshold, but how well morphine and other painkillers
work to block the pain once it's been inflicted. The next time you tell your
girlfriend to walk off that cramp she got trying page 46 of the Kama Sutra with
you, try to show a little compassion, she may just have less GIRK2 than you.
Ultimately, a woman's body can require more than double the amount of painkiller
to get the same amount of relief.

The exception is when they are pregnant or have just delivered a baby. Endorphins
and a cocktail of other feel good chemicals build up over the pregnancy, ensuring
that mom can deal with the delivery and likely explaining the real reason
expectant women have that special glow.

So, to recap, yes women have crazy strong pain thresholds right around childbirth,
but any other time of their lives their capacity to endure pain is far less then men's,
due to the way their nerves are wired up. Either way, be nice when her lady-days
come.

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#3. Women Love to Talk (and Talk)

When it comes to communication, we've all heard that men are from a planet rich
in iron oxide and women are from a planet that is full of sulfuric acid clouds, and
without the insights of a skilled stand-up comedian or the psychological stylings of
Dr. Phil, men and women are doomed to a lifetime of misunderstandings and
divorce.

Why? Because apparently on Mars telling someone you're fine means all is well;
while on Venus saying you're fine is code for "If you don't figure out that I had my
bangs cut half an inch before I freakin' point them out to you, I'm going to shiv
you with an Ebola soaked nail file."

So women love to talk, men keep it bottled up. But that's ridiculous if you think
about it long enough. After all, humans are social animals, so if women are the
better communicators, then how did they end up as the subjugated sex for like,
ever?
What Science Says:
The areas of the brain responsible for language are over 17 percent larger in
women than men, making them the well-hung studs in the horse stables of
conversation. Not content to just be bigger, women's brains also multi-task;
processing language in both hemispheres while men generally keep the
conversation going with just the dominant side of the brain.

The corpus callosum in a woman's brain is reportedly larger too, meaning that
women transfer data from one brain hemisphere to the other with high speed fiber
optics, while the men's brains are still on dial up.
Why the differences in wiring? No one is sure yet, but it affects everything from
the odds of a woman recovering the ability to speak faster than a man after
identical brain damage, to the odds that you're going to piss off your girlfriend
when both sides of her brain start analyzing your comment about how her best
friend looks really, really good after she lost all that weight.

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#2. Women See Mauve, Men See Purple

A couple is staring at paint samples, the wife enthusiastically discussing the

merits of aged ivory over albino Caucasian while the husband starts chewing
off his own arm in hopes of escaping this hell where "white" has 30 different
names. We're told that men are color impaired, forever mixing black socks
with blue ones and refusing to wear salmon red because he's sure it's pink
and he's going to get beaten bloody if he is seen wearing it in public.

Only deserts are safe for pink polo

shirts.

Meanwhile, women are allegedly color obsessed, meticulously matching

outfits and orgasmically relishing the differences between ecru and so white
it's white, which implies that women are not only pretty shallow but kind of
nuts as well.

What Science Says:

The gene for seeing red is only carried by the X chromosome, which puts
men at a serious disadvantage for seeing the color spectrum. Color, after all,
is defined by our ability to perceive red, green and blue, and every other
color we see is based on combinations of those three.

This means that while men, having merely one X chromosome, might not be
able to see red at all, women and their double X chromosomes have a 40
percent chance that their vision includes a broader expanse of the spectrum
than their male counterparts.

 Male color spectrum.

Why this colorful superpower? It goes back to food again. While the men
were out killing dinner and developing that radical spatial perception of
theirs, women were gathering fruit and vegetables for the salad course.
Having the ability to distinguish between the shiny red berries that taste
good and the shiny red berries that can kill you was an important survival
skill, and the women who didn't pick the death berries lived to pass on their
genes.

#1. Women Are Lightweights

When Ogden Nash commented that "candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker," he was
most definitely talking about alcohol as the liquid panty remover. It's supposedly
faster and more effective than witty conversation, flowers or even dick jokes. Give

a girl a shot of tequila and she'll be a giggling puddle of uninhibited goo the
moment it hits her bloodstream, while men can slam back the rest of the bottle and
still be ready for anything.

What Science Says:

It's true, but not for the reason you're thinking, which is most likely body size,
right?
According to researchers, the real reason why women can't hold their liquor as
well as men is because men and women have very different water to fat ratios to
their bodies. Men's bodies are made up of about 61 percent water, whereas women
average about 52 percent. While this doesn't sound all that important, it basically
means that male biology acts like a cheating bastard of a bartender, watering down
every drink a guy consumes nearly 10 percent more than a woman's internal
barkeep.

Women are also lacking in the liver department. Specifically, they produce less of
the liver enzyme dehydrogenase, which is that magical substance that converts
alcohol into an inactive state and ensures you're sober by the time Monday
morning rolls around. Because they have less of the enzyme, women also feel the
effects of alcohol much faster than men and it hits them harder.

So there's a medical reason why there's a drunk coed at every nightclub who will
drunkenly protest she's only had one little drink just before she passes out on the
bar and shows everyone her business. A MEDICAL REASON, we tell you.

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