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The claim is made that men are so emotionally fragile that opening the door for them damages their self-esteem and self-confidence.[1] The news site The Wire tells us that Men Are Fragile and Do Not Need Your Common Courtesies, Says Science.[2]
The online dating site Lavalife feels that women may need to take men down a peg or two to keep their egos in check but goes on to say:
Guys pretend to be tough, impervious to pain, but the ironic thing is that the male ego is as fragile as an egg. Or, as NewYorkMoments writes on the appropriately titled blog Tired of Men, “The male ego is like a zeppelin. It’s big & bloated & full of hot air. In fact, it’s so big it floats, but one little spark destroys the entire thing.”[3]
In reality women tend to have lower self-esteem from adolescences onwards.[4][5][6]
- ↑ www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/25/holding-doors-open-men-self-esteem-study_n_4853324.html
- ↑ http://www.thewire.com/culture/2014/02/men-are-fragile-and-do-not-need-your-common-courtesies/358451/
- ↑ http://blog.lavalife.com/the-male-ego-decoded/
- ↑ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11252852
- ↑ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11217183
- ↑ http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890406503000938