Are women socialized to lie?

Question

i think it's a double standard in upbringing, but waht's your view?

Answer 1

No, they are not.
I was taught that it is wrong to lie from the age I could understand what the truth is.
Good luck

Answer 2

I don't think women are socialized to lie any more that men are. It seems that lying is acceptable in our society. Actually everyone lies. What they lie about is the important thing
As far as a double standard existing, do you consider it a double standard for males to be born with ascribed status. This double standard is guaranteed to make females less valuable. You insecure little boys. Mercy.

Answer 3

Of course women are socialized to lie, men couldn't handle it if we always told the truth.

The truth is that however much we all claim that we were raised to tell the truth, we are all conditioned that lies are OK. Anyone who has had a visit from the tooth fairy, Father Christmas or the Easter Bunny, finds out that adults lie, and it's OK.

I think that both sexes lie, bit some people lie more than others, that isn't gender specific.

Answer 4

I don't generally see "socialized" used as a verb. Assuming that you really meant "socially conditioned", I would have to say that most PEOPLE - of EITHER gender - would fit that description nowdays.

We see deceitful behavior depicted in the ads for these so-called "reality shows" on TV, as if it were meant to be a SELLING POINT for the program. Why? Because THAT is EXACTLY what it IS!
Virtually all facets of the mass media are RIFE with images of dishonesty, and they are aimed indiscriminately at girls, boys, women, men, EVERYBODY!

When a child lies (provided that child has a normal psyche and is not a sociopath), I believe it is because he or she does not feel SAFE telling the truth. If one child says "I broke that vase" and gets punished, but another says "I didn't break that vase" and doesn't get punished, what is a third child who is watching all of that going to think? Or what is the child who confessed and got punished going to think?
You can tell them that they will be punished more severely if they lie, but why run the risk of even a lighter punishment if they can get themselves believed and escape ANY punishment at all?
Remember the scenes in the old westerns where the hero is pinned down behind a rock with someone shooting at him? So he puts his hat on a stick and pokes it up above his sheltering rock to draw his opponent's fire. If his opponent yelled "I'm just shooting because you are poking your hat up. If you poked your real, actual HEAD up, I wouldn't shoot," do you think he would be likely to do so?
From what I remember of my OWN childhood, that is much of how a child sees telling a lie (sticking the hat up in the air) as opposed to telling a self-incriminating truth (sticking his or her actual HEAD up), and it had NOTHING to do with gender-specific social conditioning.
It may possibly be that the female gender, collectively, has less bravado about sticking their heads up into a potential line of fire than their more macho male counterparts - I don't know.

Child, adult, male or female, a GENUINELY SOCIAL personality dislikes lying and does so (if at all) only under circumstances where they believe it will do less damage than telling a harmful truth.

Social conditiong, though, has its limitations. There is something already in each of us that I have seen referred to as the "basic personality". Some may believe it is the result of whatever genes and chromozomes go into the make up of our individual brain chemistries, some may believe it is the collective character traits of all our past reincarnations, some may believe it is the will of whatever deity they worship, or some may believe it is an accident of pure random chance. But whatever its origins, we come into this life with it already fully intact and set into concrete. "The environment" does nothing more than feed in data via our 5 senses. It is this "basic personality" that determines HOW that data will be processed once it is taken in - what parts of it will be rejected, what parts will be accepted, how those accepted parts will be reacted-to, etc. So, even if the girl DOES happen to receive "social conditioning" that the boy doesn't, it is up to her - as an individual - whether she accepts it or not.

And, while it may seem to the gals that all guys are all alike and to the guys that the gals are all alike, we ARE EACH a unique individual who makes our own choices in spite of "social conditiong".

Answer 5

Your absolutely right !
I think woman are socialized as adults to lie, cause when you guys say things like errrrrrrr " am i the best you've ever had?", would you prefer us to say ......" actually your dick is small , you came too early, and i was just warming up when you stopped?"
Sometimes lying is the only option to stop yourself from hurting the ones you love! :)

Answer 6

Women are taught to be truthful as much as men are. I have no idea where anyone would come up with such a gross generalization. Where is your proof? Without some kind of example this question is daft.

Answer 7

Remember what mom used to say "if you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all'?

It's called a white lie so no ones feelings get hurt. I suppose you could say we are socialized to lie in that asspect but it's better than telling our best friend "you look like lard a** in that outfit".

Answer 8

According to 20/20 women cheat more than men do, and they do a good job of covering it up. So, it's hard to understand, but women are made to be smarter than men. Gotta plug your stick into them and you'll get smarter too.

Answer 9

No. I was brought up to tell the whole truth, and nothing but the truth

Answer 10

I don't think anyone can go through a lifetime without lying.