Do Men Lie More Than Women?
by A little essay with little ponderings. Not meant to be biased. I see both sexes equally. At the end of it all, it generally depends on what type of person it is rather than their sex.
For years there has been a battle between the sexes, who lies more than the other? The women say men lie more than women and the men say women lie more than men. It must be noted before I begin and when I say men or women, I mean the men or women which this theory applies to, because we all know that not all men and women lie.
The majority of scientist’s and researches say that men do indeed lie more than women, the reasons for this is because the majority of men want to have easy sex, some lie because they fail to see anything wrong with lying, they lie to avoid conflict, when under pressure to do something they don’t want to, and it has also been found that insecure men are more liking to lie than those who aren’t (Associated Content, 2005).
Dory Hollander the writer of ‘101 Lies Men Tell Women: And Why Women Believe Them’ says that ‘’We see truth as brutal. A lie is the easy way out.’’ (Texas State University, 2004)
Research has found that people who tell the truth and nothing else tend to have poor social lives (ibid). It is already known that everybody lies at some point, but how they lie is what makes the difference. Research has also found that men seem to lie with more of an initiative than women; they lie to make themselves look better than they are, whereas, women lie to spare someone’s feelings or to avoid conflict (ibid).
It’s difficult to touch on a subject such as this without coming across as biased. The truth is everyone lies. The birth of this infinite battle of the sexes is the reason why we as human beings feel that we need to judge the sexes separate. As human beings we have a habit of grouping people and stereotyping, and the stereotypical male is lying, ’sex-hungry’ and violent. Where as a female stereotype is the opposite, sensitive, caring and insecure. As human beings we have a habit of looking for a short cut or easy way out. Even though stereotyping is inaccurate it’s also efficient for us. NPR news radio station series ‘Crossing the Divide’ highlights that stereotypes are a barrier which is hard wired into our brains, our habit for grouping people cannot be avoided (NPR,2007). Stereotypes prevent us from seeing individuality, if we can’t see the individual we then make assumptions (ibid) and this assumption is that all men lie. We can’t avoid making this assumption because we don’t know every person in the world therefore it’s easier to group.
Bibliography
Susan Rand, Associated Content, 2005, Why Men Lie (Updated 31ST August 2005) Available at:http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/8868/why_men_lie_pg4.html?cat=41 [Accessed 22 April 2009]
Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 2007, Stereotypes are only Human (Updated 27th January 2007) Available at: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7051541 [Accessed 22 April 2009] Note: NPR radio recording
Jeff Elder, Texas State University, 2004, Do men lie than women? (Updated 6th June 2004) Available at:http://www.txstate.edu/news/news_releases/external_news/2004/06/liestudy060604.html [Accessed 22 April 2009]
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