Who complains more /man or woman?

@kalav56 (11464)
India
March 20, 2013 1:30am CST
A discussion today got me thinking. Be it in relationships or anything else, we hear a lot of nit-picking among women when compared to men. One discussion about mother-in-law and the question that people do not talk so much about mother-in-law versus sons-in-law compared to mothers-in-law versus daughters-in-law made me post this discussion. Do women tend to complain more than men? Why is it? Whether you are a woman or man please share your unbiased opinions based on experiences. Personally, I feel that women tend to give importance to many things in life and sometimes many trivial things also fall in this category and this makes them complain.
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16 responses
@viju0410 (2286)
• India
20 Mar 13
Hi kalav, If i start complaining, i, probably will not have time to live my life/ work/ take manage home/kids and so on. My experience - when you complaint to people, either they don't care or they spread to others that you are unhappy... so i only complain when i really have some 'attentive and concerning' ears.
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@kalav56 (11464)
• India
20 Mar 13
Absolutely right Vandaan! here we are safe in airing our opinions and can be sure of getting an unbiased viewpoint.
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@kalav56 (11464)
• India
20 Mar 13
very sensible viju! mylot is a caring site where most people have time and the inclination to lend a patient ear to our problems.We can seek solutions to our problems in this forum even if not in our real world.
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@vandana7 (98873)
• India
20 Mar 13
viju ...bottling does not help!!! It creates stress for one, and helps to destroy the health. How then, is it the right way to go about it? As Kala said, here people care, and can look at things dispassionately, and in an unbaised way. Here, everybody feels their opinion is valued, and therefore, they offer the best that they can think of. I am not saying it will always be a correct solution to your problem, but at least, you wont be ridiculed, it wont be spread around, and there is no underlying jealousy or smug negative feeling that is prompting such response. And all this comes with anonymity...nobody is going to spend monies to find out where you are what you do, and spread the news to your friends or neighbors or relatives. Try it..it really really helped me.
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@allknowing (130064)
• India
20 Mar 13
Women attach a lot of importance to the relationship that exists between them and the rest of the world, whereas men I think would be more concerned with how they get along with their colleagues in the office. Most of their time is spent there and it is therefore important for them to work on relationships at the office or may be if they are in business, then with their clients and suppliers. Just a thought.
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@kalav56 (11464)
• India
20 Mar 13
I agree that women do give a lot of importance to the relationship existing between them and the rest of the world. WHat happens in the case of working women ?They should complain less then.I suppose it is so because they will have less time in their hands more issues to bother about and prioritize the category of complaints too.
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@kalav56 (11464)
• India
20 Mar 13
You have made it official!!!!!mhhmhmmh
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@allknowing (130064)
• India
20 Mar 13
If you overhear a conversation between two ladies on their way to work, mostly travelling by train, you will realise that they have enough to complain about every situation under the sun. Then at lunch hour you will hear the same while men would perhaps discuss cricket Complaining is in the blood of the female species and that is official! You surely know kala! And last but not the least when it comes to, between husband and wife this equation could differ from couple to couple.
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@pergammano (7682)
• Canada
20 Mar 13
Sadly, kalav...I would have to say; "female species!" I think we are born with more sensitive receptors and develop them to the "nnth" degree..and it is excepted/conditioned de-sensitizing for MAN to progress in this world! It is the stigma of society! Soft and pliant..females. Strong, bold insensitive..males!
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@kalav56 (11464)
• India
20 Mar 13
Gentle ' like angels --are not we! We are definitely sensitive and being better survivors are aware of many things that a man would not be.This , works to our disadvantage too at times[because we are generally thought to be the ones who complain a lot].
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@kalav56 (11464)
• India
20 Mar 13
Definitely; women have perception.I cannot agree with you more.
• Canada
20 Mar 13
AH, but kalav...there is an old expression; "the squeaky wheel gets the grease!" So, we just need to squeak, until our problems are rectified. Moderation, we have learned is the key! And there is one wonderful trait I forgot to add...a woman seems to have..perception!
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@drannhh (15219)
• United States
21 Mar 13
Men complain much. more and scientific studies have also proven that they interrupt more and they interrupt women more than they interrupt each other. When surveyed, however, most men AND most women wrongly believe that women interrupt more. However, I think it may be true that women are a bit more vicious verbally than men. I guess that language is our weapon of choice... which may be why so many men try to keep us from talking.
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@kalav56 (11464)
• India
23 Mar 13
I saw a program on Discovery CHannel in the television long back and it stuck hard in my memory.At that point of time what was said was that a woman has twenty thousand words at her disposal per day while it is only 2000 words for a man; it was a conclusive statement.Subsequently I read the same somewhere else and though there was a variation in numbers the gist was the same.Shall check the link now.
@kalav56 (11464)
• India
22 Mar 13
Women talk more than men and it is a proven fact; however, I have seen some men interrupt a lot and for that matter even women do so. However, if research has proved that men interrupt much more then we have to accept it.Women generally talk a lot and because of the umpteen issues they discuss ,this can give a picture of complaint too where they really are not so .
@drannhh (15219)
• United States
23 Mar 13
No study that I am aware of has ever proven that women talk more than men. Why do you say it is a proven fact? Have you read this article? http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/02/22/do_women_talk_more_the_answer_is_no_but_the_belief_persists_despite_the.html What do you think?
@Sreekala (34312)
• India
20 Mar 13
I really don’t have time to talk much, same way I don’t complaint much too. If I do it will be a very close person to me. But I must admit women do talks more and complaints. I had a neighbour earlier, they always talk on phone coming outside and I can overhear well. I am really tired up on their talk even though they are not talking to me. I don’t know why wasting time to talk on others. Now the new people came there they are also not different. I have to hear it from one ear and let it out through other.
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@kalav56 (11464)
• India
20 Mar 13
You seem very much a person who is not the complaining sort Sree. It is very irritating if neigbours keep complaining.
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@vandana7 (98873)
• India
20 Mar 13
I think women seek solution to the problem, whereas the men try to behave as if they are rulers so what we say holds good. Seeking a solution implies discussing the problem, which may also be understood as complaining. I feel women are more inclined to be peace seekers, and unwittingly become peace destroyers. There are unfortunately no books on ...if this is how it is, do this, else do this kind of human behavioral text books. This is also because it is hard to classify people according to their natures. I might react in one way and you might react in different way. So the solution I have to offer may not be valid for you, or what you have to offer may not be valid for me. All we can think of is, I tried this, it didnt work, have you any suggestions for me to try? As to complaining, I seem to be holding doctorate in complaining..lol. I gave a big list in thesids box in my discussion. lol
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@kalav56 (11464)
• India
20 Mar 13
That was a great response Vandana! 'women seek solution to the problem, whereas men try to behave as if they are rulers and so what they say holds good. " indeed! and how right you are in saying that we share experiences in order to gain know-how . We are peace seekers but also peace destroyers ---we are great survivors; That is why.
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@ajithlal (14716)
• India
20 Mar 13
Giving all respects to women, i think women tends to complain more in life than men. Men do see lots of world and has experiences and sometimes go through different hardships and are more adapted in life and they tend to keep their feelings like sadness and depression inside them than revealing mostly to women.
@kalav56 (11464)
• India
20 Mar 13
Women are also used to adapting to situations; in fact they are better survivors as God has made the species as such. Nevertheless, they have so much criteria to evaulate that many women ,unless they are specifically trained not to complain, do so.
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@ChoukseyMK (1045)
• India
20 Mar 13
most of the women depend on men but on other hand men, children and other family members are depend on women. therefore women get more chance to make complain more than men.
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@kalav56 (11464)
• India
20 Mar 13
This seems to be a totally different perspective.
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@AmbiePam (85627)
• United States
25 Mar 13
Well, when it comes to being sick I would say men, no doubt. It seems like when women get sick they just silently suck it up and get on with life. Especially if they are married or have kids. They know so much responsibility lies on them. There are of course exceptions. My sister complains like nobody's business. Just like my dad, although not as bad as my sister. However, when my mom and I are sick we don't say a thing. We don't want to whine or complain. But in day to day things, I don't know. Maybe women do. It's hard to tell. Seeing as women in general talk more than men, it's very possible women do.
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@kalav56 (11464)
• India
25 Mar 13
That is the problem; we generally talk too much and this gives rise to our airing our opinion on a number of things and it sometimes sounds like a complaint even if it were not not intended to be.But drannh's link has shattered this concept that woman talks more.
@celticeagle (159221)
• Boise, Idaho
20 Mar 13
I find that I complain a lot. I don't think men do that much. Men don't seem to talk about personal stuff that much. They internalize more. Women seem to be more emotional and seen to complain more to girlfriends where men don't. I am a woman so maybe my view is more biased because of that. But this seems to be the way of it.
@kalav56 (11464)
• India
22 Mar 13
Men generally talk less and it is a proven fact; women have a lot to think and talk about; this makes them aware of many small issues to and this results in talking about them. SOmetimes people call them complaints even if they are really not so.
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@celticeagle (159221)
• Boise, Idaho
23 Mar 13
Maybe it is just the way in which they 'discuss' then. Not really complaints just done in a many that makes it seem so.
@thesids (22180)
• Bhubaneswar, India
20 Mar 13
Dear Kalav It is not that way for all. Men and women all have their own issues to handle. The society, the environment (in which we live- maybe family or other cultural values) they all have played their roles and will continue influencing who complains more. I know of a family - a conservative and kind of orthodox one - where daughters were never given a say. Now when one of their daughters got married, she would never complain because she has been taught from day 1 - daughters are aliens to their parents and will have to live and fulfil the wishes of the inlaws who is their actual home. This sounds ancient, maybe, but it is the scenario at a Puri Jagannath Temple Servitor family and I know this just because their son and me were classmates - though the son never accepted the above. In my case, mom always had the controls and say in major decisions when I was growing up. Again, between me and my wife, my wife has almost all the say and as such I think they dont have any reasons to complain. I dont consider the petty issues where we have disagreements as complains - instead I would prefer calling them as points of discussions to resolve the issues.
@kalav56 (11464)
• India
20 Mar 13
It does not sound too ancient thesids. We were all taught the same by my mother and my husband still is quite pleased with my uncomplaining nature.Generally,in many circles that I have come across I do hear a bit of whining on the part of women.My mother was an exception and so was her mother.
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@vandana7 (98873)
• India
20 Mar 13
Democracy is a good idea at home. :) I find many men, including my parent, taking the decision unilaterally, often snubbing me when I have a suggestion to make, and ending up in a big mess because of over riding my suggestion. :) How does it help? It loses them more friends...a simple thing that costs you and your family some friends, how does it help? So arrogance, and dominating nature is something I would avoid at all costs.
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• India
20 Mar 13
Women tends to complain more than men. But working women of course complain less than non working women. Complaining comes natural to girls but in some homes you can find women complain less than men.
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@kalav56 (11464)
• India
20 Mar 13
It is generally believed that women complain more than men.However, with increasing working women they have too much in their plate to even think of complaining about many things.
• Indonesia
20 Mar 13
man is from mars and women from venus. have you heard this book tittle? man is tend talk their oppinion rationally and women is like to talk what they feel. that why i think the women does have a lot to complain.
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@kalav56 (11464)
• India
20 Mar 13
I have. The general belief and probably proved fact is that men tend to think with their heads and women are more emotional.Women have a lot of expectations too and probably this makes them complain.
• India
23 Mar 13
I am a woman and I think woman complains more than a man. well, women have soft feeling and just little things little wrong behave or speak can hurt their feeling and for that they would make complain on many things. I am not that kind of woman but as I have seen many of them I can say woman complains more. we used to use our right part of brain more and for that we say things maybe even without thinking and more eager to gossip but men used to use their left part of brain and for that they have more concentration on what they do and they say.
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@kalav56 (11464)
• India
25 Mar 13
Me too! I am not the sort of woman but I have seen a few and this gave rise to the discussion.
@bellis716 (4799)
• United States
23 Mar 13
Women are usually more interested in personal relationships than men.
• India
24 Mar 13
Sister kala It is the women who complain more even on minor issues; many houses break due to this too. In my opinion let's drop this 'in-law' from MIL, FIL, SIL, BIL etc; i am sure most of the problems will get solved.
@kalav56 (11464)
• India
25 Mar 13
It is not 'IL' alone thta gives rise to complaints. In many cases the nature of those women is such.