Communication Mistake: Guys don’t like to lose to women
Posted on 18. Mar, 2010 by Chris in Archive, Communication
Let’s say you and your guy are running a race, at the end, you do better than him by ½ mile. Does your guy congratulate you on doing better than him? Or does he kind of pout and sulk that he wasn’t the better one? We asked 1,000 guys, why don’t guys like to lose to women?
Good news ladies, the majority of guys don’t care. 52% of guys say they are not afraid to lose to women.
“I more of enjoy the game without worrying about winning.” – Age: 33
“It would be egotistical of me to always want to win. It would also be pretty boring! And since I don’t want to hang out with men all the time, it just makes sense to not worry about it when a woman beats me at something.” – Age: 45
Now for the guys that actually do care if they win or lose. Some guys (24%) think that losing in front of a woman challenges their manhood.
“We are constantly being judged by women on characteristics such as physical prowess. If you are trying to prove that you have more prowess than the next male, losing in a competition to a woman certainly hurts your cause.” – Age: 30
“Men are the stronger sex, we DON’T lose to women, if we do it’s degrading.” – Age: 42
Some guys are just trying to impress you and they feel winning will do that.
“If I’m single and I’m in front of single women, I want to make the best impression possible in front of them. I don’t want to be the one everyone feels sorry for.” – Age: 28
And there’s the 10% of guys that just don’t like losing. Male or female they won’t be happy to lose, at anything.
“It’s not any different than losing in front of men.” – Age: 27
So, while the majority of men say they don’t always have to be the winner, there’s a good percentage of guys that do care, whether it’s insecurity or just plain macho ego.
To whoever said men are the stronger sex, get with the times. In a lot of situations, women show the same, if not more strength. it depends entirely on the person, not their sex. if you’re a female that does not exercise regularly racing a guy that is fit and works out regularly, who do you think is going to win? what if that same guy and girl went up against each other in a board game like chess or monopoly and the girl plays regularly unlike the guy, she would win. Sometimes, it may just not be your sport, or just not your day. I think it is a very silly thing to get a bruised ego because a girl beat you. We’re not in feudal times where women are home makers and nothing more, we have skills now too.