Men Do Ask For Directions After All

	posted by Scott on Friday May 25, @02:47PM from the masculinity dept.
	Nightmist writes "Another shattered stereotype. The proliferation of these types of "studies" disturbs me. It's almost another one of those "let's find some more differences between men and women we can exploit and use to make men look stupid so women buy our products" study, but if that was its true intent, it must've backfired."

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asking for directions (Score:0) by Anonymous User on Saturday May 26, @08:45PM EST (#1) Actually if you read the article carefully it says that over 30% of men would ask for directions. Said in another way, nearly 70% of the men didn't. Who cares? Men have always preferred to use maps and to find things themselves. Seems fine to me. Much of the hoopla seems to come from women who are upset that men are not acting like women, that is, we don't ask for directions as much as they do. So what? I don't hear men complaining that women don't prefer maps! Who's got the judgemental attitude here? Live and let live. I'll take my maps thanks.

Re:asking for directions (Score:2) by Nightmist (nightmist@mensactivism.org) on Sunday May 27, @01:49AM EST (#2) (User #187 Info) My big problem with surveys like this is exactly what you implied: that there's a certain way of thinking about something as mundane as directions depending upon whether you are male or female. If I'm lost, I'll ask for directions if I have to, and I have no problems with doing so. Does that mean I "think like a woman?" Nope. It means I think like me, and I am an individual.

Re:asking for directions (Score:1) by BusterB on Monday May 28, @10:46AM EST (#3) (User #94 Info) http://themenscenter.com/busterb/ Exactly! Two of the stupidest comments I've heard in my lifetime regarding "gender traits": "You think analytically, so you have a strong feminine side." "I guess that women can be male chauvinists, too." I don't have a strong feminine side. I'm me. I'm an individual, and an analytic thinker. The second quote speaks for itself. Who says that dividing the population into "men" and "women" a priori helps make travel behaviour easier to analyze? Thanks to feminism, we're so addicted to thinking of everything as "male" and "female" before even starting to study behaviour. As a chaser, I'll play along with the "men" and "women" thing for a bit and point out that yes, women do stop and ask for directions more readily than men, but only one "study" I've ever read bothered to ask the question, "Who do the women ask for directions?" Given the choice, they ask a man. So there. :-)

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