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Men View Their Ex-Partners More Favorably Than Women Do: Study

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Re: Men View Their Ex-Partners More Favorably Than Women Do: Study

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post #6

What sort of men? Cisgender men? Heterosexual men? Arabic men? There's no such thing as a man -- "man" an abstract concept that needs definition before any useful statement can be made about people in that category.

If you need "men" defined for you, you're going to have trouble participating in useful communication. Use a bit of intuition.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

What percentage of relationships include violence? I doubt this is a strong explanation for the difference stated in the article.

I hate to be dismissive, but literally google your own question. Start here https://www.thehotline.org/resources/statistics/

That does not include per relationship statistics.

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post #3

Oh boy, research showing differences between biological genders. This is going to either be ignored or absolutely explode.

First of all, for the sake of clarity, most scientists differentiate between gender (a social role) and sex (a physiological characteristic)[1][2]. By "biological gender," I assume you mean, "The gender most often associated with the sex of the person."

Second, you should probably also know that sex is also not binary even on a cellular level and is much more complicated than most laypeople understand[3].

Those things said: differences between biological sexes are not at all controversial except for maybe a few fringe-y people on Twitter or reddit. You really shouldn't assume that the loud, anonymous people on the internet represent any larger group.

The actual argument from social liberals (in the US, where I live) is that there are biological differences on average, but that does not allow you to draw conclusions about a specific person based on their sexual organs.

There is also a long history of extremely flawed gender research in the social sciences, partly because it's very easy to design and conduct a biased social experiment that no one will ever reproduce.

1. https://www.who.int/gender-equity-rights/understanding/gende...

2. https://www.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/japplphysiol.003...

3. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/sex-gender-and-sexuality-it...

Re: Men View Their Ex-Partners More Favorably Than Women Do: Study

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post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>biological genders The word you're looking for is "sex." There's no such thing as a "biological gender."

"a term for a grammatical subclass to join sex in referring to either of the two primary biological forms of a species" Don't try to rewrite grammar to fit trends. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gender

You appear to be confusing grammar and biology. Why shy away from the word 'sex' when discussing sex?

Re: Men View Their Ex-Partners More Favorably Than Women Do: Study

#46
post #7

Can't help but wonder if maybe this is because violence towards women in relationships is higher than it is towards men. Edit: Before you dismiss my comment, feel free to look at the details. There have been countless studies that confirm this. https://www.thehotline.org/resources/statistics/

Are you talking about physical violence or psychological violence? If you are talking about total violence, then I'd argue they are about the same.

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#47
post #8

Linked Paper instead of article:- https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/19485506198766...

Thank you. I looked at the paper initially wondering whether their sample acknowledges the disproportionate number of men who murder their ex-female-partner, and, while not resolving that, I ended up finding that while the researchers record the type of breakup (substance abuse, personal problems, infidelity, etc), none of their quantified metrics appear to use this as a variable. I'd be curious to see how the outcome varies based on type of breakup.

Anyway I found this quote telling:

> there may be gender differences in the perceived causes of breakups. Women blame their male partners more often for breakups than men blame their female partners (Choo et al., 1996). In addition, women more frequently report problematic partner behaviors as the reason for a breakup, such as infidelity, substance abuse, and mental or physical abuse (Amato & Previti, 2003; Morris, Reiber, & Roman, 2015). Men, in contrast, are more likely to claim that they do not know what caused their past breakups (Amato & Previti, 2003).

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

"a term for a grammatical subclass to join sex in referring to either of the two primary biological forms of a species" Don't try to rewrite grammar to fit trends. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gender

I dunno how many times I've had to explain this to people. Usage and grammar literally aren't the same thing.

Well grammar is agreed on. Usage is something we agree on. Don't disagree on someone on the basis that his usage is wrong. His usage is as worthy as yours.

Re: Men View Their Ex-Partners More Favorably Than Women Do: Study

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post #39

When couples break up it’s usually because the man is a loser, so it makes sense. Added: Look, I’m not happy about this, it’s just the way it is, and pretending otherwise just gets everybody into a ton of trouble.

Any papers to confirm?

Learned the hard way.
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