ABC News Article:
Who's Happier, Men or Women?
This article saddens me and I think speaks for why so many men feel unsatisfied and frustrated, especially young men...
In this study they found that women are happier than men until the age of around 48 years.
The study looks at satisfaction in finances and family in particular, but really if you're unsatisfied in one aspect of life, then you're probably generally unsatisfied with ALL aspects.
So many variables are involved with the reasons for happiness with men and women, but one variable has to do with how young women are treated in society versus young men.
Social conditioning has made it difficult to achieve satisfaction for young men... in the dating world for instance, we're expected to be the 'chasers', we have trouble getting into night clubs, where women can just walk in if they have a sexy dress, we're expected to make the first move, etc...
Society structures men into 'wusses', which are very unattractive to women. Men are expected to be typical 'nice guys'...
This makes men even sadder and they feel the need to try harder to impress and court women. It's like a negative cycle, men watch movies and other media and expect to get results by modeling them.
Thus young men are very frustrated...
So society makes it so much more difficult for men... A man's level of success is judged mainly by how he carries himself, his personality, ambitions and material wealth.... not just 'looks'.
A young woman just has to dress up, slap on make up and look good to get attention from people.
That's why there are a million materials, like magazines and beauty products, for making women 'look' better.
With time woman's looks degrade and she receives less attention in many of life's facets.
A lot of guys work really hard in their careers to overcome unhappiness early in life because they think that most of it stems from material things, but to be genuinely happy I think you need to feel satisfaction on another level.
It's a mix of just feeling good and happy with yourself as well as having achieved many feats in life.
The first part of the mix is hard to quantify, but has to do with fully accepting yourself, and having core confidence.
The second part is easier to quantify, but relates to the first...for instance being able to attract women consistently makes you satisfied with yourself.
This is why you have to improve yourself on many levels... always growing
There are so many variables to happiness and no one seems to truly know how to achieve it fully...
PS... this is a good debate to talk to women about, as long as you don't get too frustrated with it...you can use it as an interesting subject to talk about on a date with women or when out
Who's Happier, Men or Women?
This article saddens me and I think speaks for why so many men feel unsatisfied and frustrated, especially young men...
In this study they found that women are happier than men until the age of around 48 years.
The study looks at satisfaction in finances and family in particular, but really if you're unsatisfied in one aspect of life, then you're probably generally unsatisfied with ALL aspects.
So many variables are involved with the reasons for happiness with men and women, but one variable has to do with how young women are treated in society versus young men.
Social conditioning has made it difficult to achieve satisfaction for young men... in the dating world for instance, we're expected to be the 'chasers', we have trouble getting into night clubs, where women can just walk in if they have a sexy dress, we're expected to make the first move, etc...
Society structures men into 'wusses', which are very unattractive to women. Men are expected to be typical 'nice guys'...
This makes men even sadder and they feel the need to try harder to impress and court women. It's like a negative cycle, men watch movies and other media and expect to get results by modeling them.
Thus young men are very frustrated...
So society makes it so much more difficult for men... A man's level of success is judged mainly by how he carries himself, his personality, ambitions and material wealth.... not just 'looks'.
A young woman just has to dress up, slap on make up and look good to get attention from people.
That's why there are a million materials, like magazines and beauty products, for making women 'look' better.
With time woman's looks degrade and she receives less attention in many of life's facets.
A lot of guys work really hard in their careers to overcome unhappiness early in life because they think that most of it stems from material things, but to be genuinely happy I think you need to feel satisfaction on another level.
It's a mix of just feeling good and happy with yourself as well as having achieved many feats in life.
The first part of the mix is hard to quantify, but has to do with fully accepting yourself, and having core confidence.
The second part is easier to quantify, but relates to the first...for instance being able to attract women consistently makes you satisfied with yourself.
This is why you have to improve yourself on many levels... always growing
There are so many variables to happiness and no one seems to truly know how to achieve it fully...
PS... this is a good debate to talk to women about, as long as you don't get too frustrated with it...you can use it as an interesting subject to talk about on a date with women or when out
