PUBLIC OPINION > Men Are Less Moral Than Women
SodaHead Living
2012/06/21 22:00:00
A recent study published in Scientific American suggests that men are more likely than women to bend the rules a bit -- little white lies, omitting facts, cutting corners, that kind of thing. This can come into play in business settings, or in relationships. But we wanted to know how the public perceives gender morality. Does the general public really think men are less moral than women?
We don't need studies to determine that men are less moral -- more than two-thirds of the public already believes it. One commenter noted, "You only have to look at the current congressional male population to see that." It's true, politicians are much more likely to be male. Coincidence? We think not.
Women Are Convinced
We were hoping the gender breakdown would reveal an interesting dynamic, and we weren't disappointed. Men were actually split -- half of them agreed their gender was less moral, while the other half pointed to women. But the female vote was overwhelming. 85% of women think men are the more immoral gender.
Parents Are Even-Handed
Compared to voters who don't have kids, parents were relatively undecided. The majority still picked men, but not by much. It takes a lot of work to raise a child, and it takes two to get through it. Plus, babies have a tendency to soften hearts. So it's no wonder there's a little bit of shared moral responsibility among parents.
Singles Distrust Men
Married couples were also more likely to give men a break, probably for the same reason parents were -- they've had to work together. Singles, on the other hand, hardly gave men a chance. Nearly three-fourths said men are less moral. Interestingly, divorcees were one of the few demographics to vote for women over men.
If you'd like to vote on this question, dig deeper into the demographics, or engage in existing discussion about the topic, visit our poll about gender morality. We'd love to hear from you!
Top Opinion
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BongRipper 2012/06/21 23:11:38
whether we like it or not there are those in subversive groups who want to destroy this country, I bellieve that those who are against GOD and whatever HE has created! commies have for years have wanted to destroy this nation, they know that they cannot destroy America by war but they can destroy it by destroying what American used to value. Curtis Bowers "Agenda grinding down America"
Sorry but other side of that coin, I've seen and been the recipient of girls hurting/using guys along with several of my friends who thankfully have mostly found other people who are worth their time.
Woman can be just as crass, just as petty minded, just as thoughtless, just as selfish, and just as needlessly cruel and cowardly.
They get less of a bad wrap for it, but its true. Guys are imperfect and ass holes, women are also imperfect and ass holes, as is life.
Other side of the coin being that there are extraordinary women out there who are outstanding in everyway and should be treated and respected as such, same going for men. There ARE good men out there, same as I know that there are Good women out there.
stop generalizing a fault of humanity to a gender, its imbecilic
This can be a poll in of itself. Does Buddha possess more morality than Jesus? Was Gandhi more moral than Martin Luther King Jr.? Was Jack the Ripper more of a saint than Charles Manson?
Moral to one person is reprehensible to another. What is moral for whom and under what contexts and circumstances are always changing
THE FACT > PUBLIC OPINION IS WRONG
THE TRUTH > MORALS ARE AN INDIVIDUAL TRAIT
ethics is individual trait.
morality is collective value and can be measured.
That's is all
Women incarcerated in state prisons were less likely than men to have been convicted of a
violent offense (35% vs. 53%).
Women incarcerated in state prisons were more likely than men to have been convicted of aproperty or drug crime (59% vs. 40%).
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne...
I used to work in the criminal justice system before leaving to study law and social work.
Girls who enter the CJS jump up the system faster because its unusual for them to come to court and so judges tend to want to "scare them straight" and would give them a tougher sentence than a male counterpart simply with the idea that they won't do it again - whereas the theory would be that boys are "just being boys".
Double deviancy is the acknowledgement that criminals are "deviants" (they deviate away from social norms), so women are "double deviants" if they end up as criminals because they have devianted away from social norms AND social norms of their 'fairer sex' (trevthick 2007)
I get what you're saying about when women deviate from being moral they're seen as strange anomalies, but this also leaves room for many excuses. Instead of it being "he's a guy and he's violent; of course he would attack this person," it turns into "she's a girl and probably not violent; she must have been provoked by childhood abuse, domestic violence, what have you"
Anyway, the cause of it aside, nothing can excuse the fact that men are 20 times more likely to get the death penalty and 165% more likely to be incarcerated
Saying men are 20x more likely to get the death penalty and 165% more likely to be incarcerated does not take into account the crimes or the violence of the crimes. If read alone ofcourse it'll look terrible, but not taking into account these variables does not make an accurate account of the situation.
Yes the chivalry theory does happen, ofcourse it does, but just because this one happens, does not negate the other.
Simply saying I'm wrong because "just being boys" isn't nice, does not make the double deviancy theory wrong
Also, the statistics that were taken only compared the same crimes. The numbers are percentages comparing the same felonies, such as the difference in conviction rates in murder, theft, OR assult.
Also I don't seen where double deviancy applies when continuously and in varying situations women are constanty being coddled and empathized with for their wrongs
http://www.psmag.com/legal-af...
1) so are you saying empathy is wrong?
2) because you are solely looking at length of sentence rather than considering other factors (type of crime, first offence etc)
And I do look at the type of crime. If a woman is jailed for three years for stealing and a man is given a life sentence for killing someone, I'm not going to say that it's sexist because obviously it is not
But if a woman is given a sentence of six years for murdering her husband, but a man is given twenty years for murdering his wife, then, yeah, that's a big difference
Also I don't know what kind of factors are more common with women who commit crimes that will affect the length of a sentence to such a profound amount. What makes you think that a woman's offense is much more likely to be a first one than a man's?
Stop making assumptions about what I say. It's getting annoying.
So long they're the same crimes, the general length of a man's sentence should not constantly be longer than a woman's. That's all there is to it