In general, who are more manipulative---men or women?

[brownvanilla75]

Men

Women

Depends on Person, Not Gender

[jgokgotit]

Women expect us to guess their emotions. Classic example: Woman gives silent treatment. Man asks if she is ok and she says "I'm fine". That is a huge trap for a man with a lose-lose scenario. We either try to understand her and piss her off more or we ignore her and piss her off more. Long drawn out fight either way, then she FINALLY tells you what is wrong and gets EVEN MORE ANGRY that you did not read her mind and guess what is wrong. You fight over that but are wrong even when you are right. Then you argue over that before FINALLY addressing the original issue that she lied and said "I'm fine" for. You come up with solutions but she does not like them so she calls you crazy, immature, selfish, a pushover or something like that. You try to prove her wrong and she gets even more mad. You lose your patience and go hang out with the boys to cool off. When you get back she argues with you over leaving before things are resolved. You try to keep quiet hoping she will finally shut up and she accuses you of not caring. This vicious cycle continues until you finally lose your mind, then she makes you out to be some crazy abusive psycho and either puts you in jail or takes half your shit. Lol this is obviously a joke but hopefully illustrates to women how frustrating they can be sometimes. When a man is upset and a woman asks what is wrong he will tell you in as few words as possible and probably thank you for asking and get over it quickly. On a serious note I think gender does not matter for who is more manipulative.

[Unit1]

Women are the masters of manipulations and here is why:

With the power of the pussy (young) women are able to control men (if they let it happen).
However men can control women with the right amount of money... but then again, women prevail still as can be seen in the video below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBhcQeNd5AM

Name or show me at least one very charmant man, that can manipulate women (Ted Bundy, eh?).

[Shezadi]

It depends on the situation. In love relationships, I would say men because they use and dump women after treating them like objects.

Other than that, women are manipulative against each other because of jealousy and competition.

For example: mother-in-law, daughter-in-law, sister-in-law, step mother, step sister and in my case real biological mother. They always used the mother card.

Women also oppress each other. A man might hit his wife because his mother and sister complain.
A man might hit his children because their step mother complains.
My dad almost murdered me because my mom turned him against me.

[muliebrity]

Manipulation isn't a bad thing. It has a bad rep because a lot of people use it to hurt others or take advantage. Romance is a kind of manipulation.. people show only the good traits in the beginning because when love is in theyll be more accepting of the bads.

[laurieluvsit]

We have that market cornered... it's not even close... lol

[Shamalien]

I've known incredibly manipulative men and women, and the men that were manipulative, well, I refer to them as 'pussies' so what does this tell you XD

I'd say women are more likely to be manipulative simply for the fact that their stats in that area are higher. Where a man can rely on brute force, a woman often cannot, leaving her with other options, like manipulation. Girls have massive influence over men, making manipulation a fine choice. At the end of the day both genders can be extremely effective manipulators, but I think women because of the gifts they have been given by biology have the upper hand in that department.

[Anonymous]

In general, women. That doesn't mean all women are manipulative or that no men is manipulative. Just overall women are more manipulative than men. Men just get physical and solve their shit that way. Women just manipulate their way out of situations.

And it makes sense. Women are physically not as strong as men, so women sought other ways to win battles or fights, thus using emotions and thus using manipulation.

[StickStickity13]

It's true, women and men show aggression in different ways.

[CrypticLOL]

Vote results are unsurprising to say the least.

Seeing as how there are more men than women in positions of power, I would by far say men by a landslide. Politicians, CEOs, these are some of the most manipulative people in the world and they are mostly men.

However, ignoring that, it depends on the person, gender has nothing to do with it.

[AaronKrieger]

You'll find more manipulators in women than men. A lot of guys just fight out their problems and are blunt. We're like cave men where as girls have to deal with a lot of shit and drama with other girls. There is a reason why women are better at social situations than guys are.

[LordSnuggles]

I'm gonna go with women because when women don't like each other, they don't fight it out in the open, they scheme and destroy the others reputation until they're a pariah effectively pushing them out of the group. That requires suggestion, careful dissemination of information, psyops basically. When a guy hates you, it's easy. Girl hates you? She's going after your reputation.

[LordSnuggles]

Bear in mind that this is backed by psychology, sociology, and behavioral science. Men and women are different in my ways including how they fiction in groups. Just so happens that it can easily be turned into a weapon.

[abc3643]

Females: They have to be for evolutionary purposes because, physically, they are not as strong as us. Because we have the strength advantage, we are usually more straightforward and assertive. For a female to overcome that and get her way, she may use deceptive or manipulative tactics. My wife does it all the time.

[Passinggas]

Is this even a question? The woman evolved to manipulate the man and was given that power over him as survival of the species. Today, women want both the male role and the fallback position to manipulate his ass when convenient. So, she can switch from the role of in-charge to the manipulative helpless-me, when she feels it will get her the goods.

[LIM1T]

Regardless of gender, people are manipulative. It's based on greed, hidden agendas, selfishness, etc. I wouldn't generalise this question - it's Equivalent to who is more likely to cheat? It's based on personal experiences that drew them there. Our personality is based on what we've seen and heard. Ultimately comes to the heart of the person.

[Anonymous]

women... probably because we are physically weaker, over the course of millions of years of evolution. we have developed this “manipulating men in order to get what we need” survival strategy and now it runs so deep that it is part of our core identities. 🤭

[Anonymous]

Highly depends on person. In my experience. It depends on the person's parent. People with manipulative parent usually end up growing up to be better manipulative than them. Personal experience.

[lernulo]

Let me be clear with this. It isn't about intention, it's about hability, although mny women have abandoned femenine ways and most likely be less efective on these ways.
On the last study it was seen a decreased degree of hability between lesbian-tomboy girls who showed the same hability as men

[megaman242]

It really depends on the person. But I would say there are more woman that is then men. It's how the world is built up and many woman find loopholes and uses that to their advantage. I'm so weak woman can you do this for me? They know how to, they just don't want to. Stuff like that, and men they eat it up

[Sensmind]

I think I have to say women really only because I think women have the mind to go through the machinations of manipulation whereas a man may hurt with bluntness or ignoring you, women can set their emotional strategies to the long game.

[ManOnFire]

Women only ever admit that they're more manipulative if they can take some kind of credit for it as malevolent intelligence, but will deny it when they think it makes them look bad or when they want to say it's misogynist.

[Anonymous]

More of a personality thing than a male or female thing.

[GigiMary]

Oh, definitely us. Undoubtably. On the whole, we are a whole lot more clever when it comes to long term manipulation and, in turn, getting what we want. Not that I manipulate people.

[andreasderjuengere]

I have seen it on both sides. 50/50 distribution.
From my perception, the differences are:
- Ladies' manipulation is a bit more 'transparent' -or direct - to me.
- Men's manipulation usually is 'sneaky' and 'negative'.

[R_Cakes91]

I’ve met some psycho manipulative men in my day but both genders can be pretty bad. They just use different tactics to manipulate

[Lynx122]

I think women are naturally a lot more skilled at it but over time some guys catch up and become very skilled as well.