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Originally posted by Podmore
I think you've got two separate things mixed up. First the esteem thing: I really don't think women have lower self-esteem than men on average but (1) it manifests itself a little differently in women than men and (2) it's a bigger issue with very attractive women, in my experience. Women who are very beautiful usually get told so from early on, and start measuring themselves with it. Women who achieve a lot by being smart or creative have a more solid ground to stand on because those things are less transient. Beauty doesn't last. And men with low self-esteem don't do things with their body and such. They usually turn inward or become very defensive about stuff.
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Good points here. I would say that not only most woman but most men also have low self esteems. Very few women, actualy maybe only 1 or 2, I know have good self esteems, but this would also apply to most of the guys I know as well. When woman have low self esteems they often spend alot of time putting themselves down, especially around others. I know both educated (doctors, lawyers, philosophers, ect) and uneducated woman (factory workers, gas station attendants, ect) and I have noticed very little difference in the amount of self esteem that either group has. The educated woman are just a little better at hiding it is all, but once you really get know them damned if they arent as bad if not worse than their uneducated counterparts, but here again I will include most guys that I know as well. We guys, however, display our low self esteems in quit a different way. We compensate with big cars, big toys, big salaries, bagging every woman we can, and in general just going around being super macho. I think that everyone is their own worst critic most of the time.