Why is it that women can ask questions like this...?

Question

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061211140344AAvcKO8&r=w&pa=FZptHWf.BGRX3OFMhzFdV98BMzTcO1KlC8TWccH23d_y2V2SZWc7HH3qjhPm3VGEF4mtvYMA7TIEpUnMIA--&paid=answered#FZAoXWe6AzhES8YusKy2baB9lfrTctS8LV3ndJzzznwyckfomfll

But yet, if I (as a male) asked the same question, I would be murdered in the most horrific way possible (well, maybe I wouldn't be greeted with hositility at that level of extremity, but you get the point).

But seriously, it's the same question regardless of who asks it. So why the different reactions?

And just to clear the air, I would not ask a question like that, whereas I don't agree with its premise. This is purely hypothetical.

Answer 1

The reason you'd get different reactions to the same question is because people are not trying to seek truth, but they are only trying to support their beliefs.

It's amazing at how much an opinion will change based upon the person who is speaking.
It is a prejudiced way to think. If you can't react the same way regardless of the speaker, then you're being biased towards the speaker and not directing the content of the words.

It shows the unintelligence and prejudice of the person giving the opinion.

Some people will react the same way and those people are true to themselves.

Answer 2

I just read and answered that question and my emotional reaction didn't depend on whether the asker was male or female. In fact, it would have been the same if a man asked it. Same with my answer.

Answer 3

Possibly because women have a greater stake in the answer. The best people to answer a question about the virtues of subjugation are the potential subjugees.

Answer 4

because it's a question poised to women ABOUT women. a man asking it would be considered sexist. it would be similar if the shoe was on the other foot. while i understand your questioning to a degree when it's a question about a gender specifically, if it comes from the opposite gender it's condisered sexist. kind of like when men use the phrase "it must be her time of the month" or along those lines. when women say it to one another it's becuase it's a "we're in the same boat thing" when men ask it's sexist.

Answer 5

You could ask the same question she did. Nobody could do a thing to you for it on Yahoo. I read the question and told her that this is not the Stone Age. She is probably another evangelical
Christian. And I'm not going to say anything more about that.

Answer 6

It just sounds more empathetic coming from another woman. I figure, whether I agree with her or not, at least she knows what it's like to be a woman, and so she's asking this question with some degree of sincerity and not just out of some weird power trip.

Answer 7

It's like in Islam and I've found this more often than not and I don't practice it. An American woman will go up to an Arab man whom they know is married to an American woman and ask point blank whether or not his wife is obedient. That is none of their concern.

Answer 8

it's just like, considered rude. Women were 1ce treated like that. In some places they still r. I guess, were just acknowledging the fact that we are not anymore and will not b ever again, which makes us more sensitive 2 it. People have always thought men dominated EVERYTHING. It kinda hurts after a-while.

Answer 9

Well it's like a white person saying the "n" word to a black person. It just isn't said! Now it's different when a black says it to a black. It's all good then. Same goes for men and women.

Answer 10

wow I don't even have a polite answer for the chic, but i think If you as a man asked women would assume that is how you are, and how you expect women should act.

The key word being assume.