Men versus Women
By vanny
@vandana7 (98787)
India
February 13, 2013 8:23am CST
So...men are always for cars, electronic gadgets, and complex musical system that seem to have wires everywhere for you to fall down and lose your teeth.
And we women...
We like clothes, heels, lipsticks, nailpolish, hair color...and JEWELRY. And we also like nice house with a big yard and lots of curtains and bedsheets and crockery and cutlery and furniture.
I am not saying there is no overlap here..I mean men do like nice house, and a big yard, but I doubt if they have as much affinity for curtains and bedsheets and crockery and cutlery and furniture..
So my questions are...
a. Are men genetically programmed to spend on expensive things that will be of no value after sometime, and women prefer to satisfy themselves with comparatively less expensive things to save for costlier things like Jewelry and home..which has some value well into future.
b. And...are we suffering the large deficits in our respective country's current accounts because of this lack of foresight in men, and perhaps, had women been there to rule over them, things would have been better. 
Mind you...our former President Pratibha Patil has made us hang our heads in shame on the way she went on spending spree...but she was of the age where she could have been termed senile.
Lets have some fireworks..every valentine's day cant be about love..
Mind you...our former President Pratibha Patil has made us hang our heads in shame on the way she went on spending spree...but she was of the age where she could have been termed senile.
Lets have some fireworks..every valentine's day cant be about love..3 people like this
8 responses
@webearn99 (1742)
• India
14 Feb 13
Fireworks eh?
Okay! This is from a male perspective. We men buy things for the sole purpose of keeping up with the unsaid demands of women.
A car? That is for us to drive you females around. What do we get out of it? Being a glorified chauffeur. Domestic electronic items are for you as you as homemakers need to have entertainment. This is being well utilized as surveys show that women are the largest segment for the soaps being broadcast. Cellphones, laptops and such are to make us more efficient and thereby earn more so that we can keep you happy and secure.
We too invest in long term utilities such as homes so that you can lord over it, that you must agree!
Last but not the least, an overwhelming majority of the commercials are targeted at women, because these people know who is the real decision maker. That should say it all!
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I concede...we are the decision makers...thank god for that..
@topffer (42156)
• France
13 Feb 13
I agree only on the fact that a man and a woman are spending their money differently. This discussion remembers me a girlfriend who was spending more in one month for clothes than me in two years, although she was saying that she had nothing to wear
. I always thought that she had never learned that she could wear a dress two times before throwing it away. And she was not a blonde
.
Don't criticize our cars and gadgets and we will not criticize your makeup and clothes
.
. I always thought that she had never learned that she could wear a dress two times before throwing it away. And she was not a blonde.
Don't criticize our cars and gadgets and we will not criticize your makeup and clothes.1 person likes this
@kalav56 (11464)
• India
13 Feb 13
Some honest instinct in me is now crying to confess Vandana!I feel that we women are more 'image conscious' and also vain.That is why we like the things mentioned by you.Men have their own distinctive pleasures and there would be less of 'image' in this.I disagree that if women were to rule things would be different.Women are instinctive survivors and therefore selfish.They are better survivors than men.They would have a narrower outlook than men ;they would think of themselves first.
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@vandana7 (98787)
• India
13 Feb 13
I agree...that "they would think of themselves first"...but that is exactly what would make them spend wisely may be? I mean, they might have deferred new cars and concentrated instead of on good metro transit systems in every city...so that they could save on excessive outflow of forex towards oil? Likewise, Narain Karthikeyan would just get a Padma Shri or Padma Bhushan and sent back to his home town instead of spending a fortune on building race tracks? Likewise, they would do better planning of finances...like leave travel concession be removed, and instead we keep medical expenses reimbursement at its present level. That way, we have less human traffic on railways or air crafts, and more cargo movement. And we also save on monies...after all, the gains of railways are essentially what left from government's pockets...its merely like transferring monies from left hand to right hand. I do at times think that women would spend more time thinking...while they might have chosen to spend on sarees, and jewelry, and encourage allied industries, they still would have given country more value than flyovers and race tracks.
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@purplealabaster (22094)
• United States
15 Feb 13
Haha ... I had to double-check, and I am still decidedly a girl-flower, but I would much rather spend my money on electronic gadgets, games, and musical systems than on lipstick, jewelry, hair color, nail-polish, etc. and I most definitely would NOT buy crockery, cutlery, drapes or furniture unless I absolutely, positively had to ... and even then it would take some major arm twisting to get me to do it.
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@alberello (4752)
• Italy
13 Feb 13
Well, in your discussion, you clearly understand the differences between the male and the female preferences.
However, you said the right place, because men are much more likely to electronic gadgets, cell phones, computers, etc..
Perhaps for these things they spend too much?
Well, on this point I would like to make a clarification: Women in lipsticks, clothes, furniture for home, etc., are not perhaps also the costs? I say yes, because to them nothing is given away by shopkeepers.
However I can let pass the speech that women, maybe they are more thrifty and savers, compared to their male counterparts.
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@vandana7 (98787)
• India
14 Feb 13
Women's clothes and furniture and jewelry and homes and furnishings have a decent resale value well into future...whereas a car is nearly worthless 10 years down the lane. :) If there is a value to what women spend on and not much towards mobile phones, and stuff like that...then obviously we women are smarter, right? 
@pergammano (7682)
• Canada
13 Feb 13
My goodness, dear Vandy...who lit your fire this morning??
And furthermore, Valentine's day is tomorrow...YOU are a day ahead of me! I am really afraid to sink my teeth into this discussion! But here goes; Females nest..a basic instinct, so feathering one's nest is basic! Women have a child, and that becomes a forever thing! Men father a child...and it is disposable, he can just walk away. I think it is basic for men to acquire disposable assets, with at times, little or no emotional investment! Women's investments are emotional!
This response shud bring me a lot of flak!
@kalav56 (11464)
• India
14 Feb 13
No pergammano! No flak would be there ;Do you now why/--they will be happy that women's investments are more emotional than logical.And here when we are talking of general good on a macro level, emotion cannot work predominantly and logic needs to prevail.
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@veganbliss (3895)
• Adelaide, Australia
27 Mar 13
Thus there is need for balance! Don't we find the spending of either gender is lessened to more "essential" items - or more those agreed upon as essential - inside of an intimate relationship?
Unfortunately, I cannot share a similar outlook on politics, as our lovely Prime Minister has spent us all into the ground in these difficult times. What I would like to see as far as leadership goes, is a married couple ruling a country equally. It must have been a very long time ago that such a thing occurred. That would be balance! But it would only be successful to the extent that the relationship were successful.
By the way, wasn't one of your richest men into adorning himself with gold?
By the way, wasn't one of your richest men into adorning himself with gold?@vandana7 (98787)
• India
27 Mar 13
Honestly, I find obsession of women with gold as dumb as obsession of men with fast cars or new cars. :)
Given that, you would think the price of gold should come down or at least stagnate...like that of the car...gold should have less value because it serves the same purpose as some of those glass beads or plastic beads do. But still, people value gold...weird..lol
@veganbliss (3895)
• Adelaide, Australia
27 Mar 13
The price of gold stays up because it is the best alternative should the present monetary system collapse. Whenever the likelihood of it going "belly-up" increases, the price of gold shoots up. It's really a rough indicator of people's confidence in the status quo. This is expected to change significantly when China floats the Yuan, instead of tying it to the "gold standard". It's more so a matter of "when", rather than "if".