Why do guys think all girls are the same?

[Anonymous]

Why do a lot of guys seem to have the "all women" attitude? It seems as if guys so often see humanity as incredibly diverse, and amazingly individualized...among men. But somehow women are a monolith in the mind of a man. Men see that women all look different on the outside, but somehow they think our personalities, desires, characters, wants, needs, and psychologies are identical copies. If one woman has done it, we all do it, right? The thing I don't understand is why do men think like this. Do some guys really believe that all women are the same?

[Sib999]

It happens both ways, specially if a guy/girl has had bad experiences in the past. "All girls are the same, they only want money." "All men are pigs, they only want me as sex meat". Stuff like that.

Generalizing, no matter what it's about, is always incorrect. Since they're often biased on our own limited experiences...or more often, stuff we hear from others or see depicted in the media, stereotypes are born. Gender, race, religion, politics, nationality, careers, habits, etc - you name it!

You see, it's very easy/practical to just grab a bunch or whatever, wrap them up and label them as anything. That way, we can comfortably make assumptions and find explanations to every situation. The thing is... that's incorrect from the very start, because we're ignoring every person is unique to an individual level and we easily prejudice people based on said assumptions.

Now, there's no denying sometimes we can see a pattern. Otherwise, stereotypes wouldn't born and recognized so easily. But we must remember they're nothing more than that, and there will ALWAYS be exceptions. Lots of them.

All that said, remember only fools will truly believe stereotypes are 100% true. If a guy (or girl for that matter) has that "all girls/guys are x thing" attitude, he's probably not worth it anyway.

[2Hot4UBabez]

OMG it's not just men women seem to believe it also. You don't know how many times I got " you give women a bad name" from women. Like hello like I'm an individual I represent myself and myself only not other women like that's the same if I said O that guy was a pedophile you know that mean hide your kids because like all men are. Like that is stupid!

[dwiller943]

I hate that. Sone of us were NEVER like other girls.

[dwiller943]

*Some

[dx021]

yes because we're all unique snowflakes

but in all seriousness, no, it only takes a little life experience before guys realize trends. Women are wired AS women, which means there are certain common aspects to how the see,feel and do things.

People really aren't that unique

once a guy gets experience and some of the "oh she'll be different" bs shattered by reality, he realizes how similar the psychology is between girl to girl

[Asker]

so doesn't that also apply to men?

[dx021]

to a degree, yes

men don't operate on such a knee-jerk emotional level though.

[dwiller943]

True. But there ARE females out there that are NOTHING like the other general sense females.

[what_the_hell]

For the record, most of you men are wired the same way as well. The only exceptional guy i have ever met is my dad.

[Dandeus]

It's human nature to make assumptions about groups of people. Women say the same thing about men. Well, they say different things about men, but they make inferences about the whole gender based on limited experience the same way that men do about women.

[martyfellow]

Women in the US are terriblyconformist, and share similar cultural and political attitudes.

The only exceptions are those from minority cultures who haven't been assimilated into the US 'mainstream' Anglo culture, yet.

Men tend to be this way also, but to the same extent; a lot of guys do think for themselves.

But I rarely meet a girl from the 'mainstream' culture who has any opinions she didn't get from the TV and movies.

[Asker]

See this is exactly what I am talking about. I could just as easily say the same thing about men.

[martyfellow]

You could say it, sure, but it wouldn't apply to men, to nearly the same extent. Men aren't raised to be daddy's girls and groupies. Unfortunately, a lot of women ARE raised this way!

[Asker]

And how do you know this? You have no evidence to back it up. And a lot of men are raised to be doormats and beta-males, your point?

[what_the_hell]

lol i know a lot of males you are raised as momma's boys, you point holds no water. And what's wrong with being a daddy's girl?

[Vandal]

I don't think they're exactly the same but I do think women as a whole are less diverse than men - especially when it comes to attraction/dating/relationships e.g. what they're attracted to in the opposite sex, haha.

*Awaits down votes*

[Asker]

Do you have any evidence to back that up?

[Vandal]

Just my personal experience which I guess you'll have to hang/downvote me for since it's heretical.

[Asker]

So you're applying your personal experience to the entire female population? So isn't it fair for me to do the same thing to men?

[Vandal]

Go ahead, IDC.

[Aweirdguybettin]

As a male, my opinion not all girls are the same but 90% are. All my female classmates and my mother treat me like sht. They only care about their appearance, go and ho around etc. Nevertheless, I want to believe that they are girls that have a beautiful character and don't care only about go party around

[steveguitar]

Many girls do the same thing towards guys. All men are idiots. where are all the good guys? All guys are jerks, my f***ing ass.. Sorry

[Anonymous]

We'll in dating almost all of them are pretty close to the same. They never plan the date, most have a problem when the guy doesn't pay for both of them, the girl generally doesn't plan future dates are things to do. A large majority of them seem to do close to nothing. They just kinda tag along with whatever the guy picks

[Asker]

what the hell does dating have to do with it? you think that determines a girls character/personality?

[Anonymous]

I'm just curious where you get the idea guys think that. Are you assuming? Is it from life experience? Did you read some dumb article in Cosmo? Or did you hear one guy say it & now all of a sudden " all us men think the same"

[Theguyoverthere]

It's honestly no different than racial profiling, or any form of generalization.

[Anonymous]

You mean you're not? Well damn! Just when I finally thought I had women figured out, you throw this at me.

[davdus]

Exact same thing can be said about women. Why do women think all men are the same, ya'll know we're not, yet you say it like you believe it

[Asker]

i didn't ask that. my question is: why? if I wanted to know why women do it then I would've asked that question. but did i? no.

[davdus]

Then why do women do it...probably the same reason men do

[davdus]

love how all the answers have been downvoted at least once. either someone is going through and doing it, or you, the qa are doing it. stop

[Asker]

that still doesn't answer my question but okay.

[Asker]

and I did down vote all the answers, and? who's going to do anything about it? none of them have answered the actual question.

[davdus]

then why did I just get an uppie, haha

[davdus]

...and by the way, I think I did just answer the question, you're just too blind to see it

[Asker]

actually you didn't. and if you're that happy about an upvote, your life must REALLY suck.

[davdus]

actually I did...and no, I'm not happy about my life, but, at least I'm not attacking you

[davdus]

so now someone else is going through and downvoting everyone. this question should be reported

[davdus]

in fact, I just did

[Asker]

good for you.

[Anonymous]

The irony haha... It's not all of them who think like that fortunately, just some of them. There are some patterns among men and women though.

[toricakes]

Girls think the same about guys though

And it's not all of guys or girls

[aMuse]

We don't...

[Anonymous]

We don't think you're all the same.

[Anonymous]

Because they generalize so much

[davdus]

as do women

[Opinion Owner]

Nope

[SirCryptic]

Not really