Why are men so hard headed?

[Lady101]

Why is it when hardheaded men have there mind made up, it's hard to even suggest anything new and possibly better.

[good-looking-geek]

I've seen men who will make a statement and be stubborn and stick to it even when they know and are told time after time that they are wrong. Some men would rather be told they are wrong and live with a bad decision, rather than change their minds and admit they were wrong in the first place. The men who do that will probably say they don't want to loose their pride (and also their ego) by admitting to their mistakes.

It's stupid I know and I would never act so stupidly, but men do it. I can guess that any man who is sensitive about his pride and his ego are insecure with themselves. And actually I think every man who must maintain "pride" or an ego is insecure. So insecurity leads to a man's stubbornness.

[ih82w8]

Oh, believe me the same can be said for hard-headed women (sorry, I believe the pc term is strong willed women). I know that I get tunnel vision sometimes but that doesn't even compare with the blinders that many of my female friends put on every once in a while. I don't think it is as much a gender issue but a stubbornness issue.

[Wisegirl47]

Because men like to be right. They love to be the know-all Superman of your life because being right feeds their ego. IMHO.

[p-guy]

Because most of us are control freaks. We don't like to be helped and we like to believe we know everything (even in the face of being constantly proven wrong).