What do women feel they need protection from?
953144
I'm not sure I can totally explain how I feel,\nbut when a strong man puts his big\narms around me I melt . I feel as if \nnothing can touch me . I feel security ,\nlove , safety , and protected from the \nbig bad world around me .
838251
I know what you mean. When you mention a problem to a woman, they sympathize, but dont neccessarily jump into action. If you tell a man, they always have this need to act and make it better. They take it as a quest or challenge they need to accomplish. Its partly that through time, its been the mans job to act. To hunt, work, fight, find, get and protect their woman and children. Women on the otherhand have often been passive creatures. It is also partly the fact that many men are uncomfortable with or unaccustomed to dealing with emotional matters, to just talking about a problem in order to make it better and just being a shoulder to cry on rather than an arm to hold a sword. They have to act because to just listen or understand would be seen as unmanly. Its culture, its history, its instinct and sometimes its neccesity. As much as I loath giving each gender their own place, often a man needs to push a woman to act and a woman has to remind a man to slow down and think. Ying and yang. And thats all ok, as long as we can also accept those who dont fit this mold.
219806
some people "girl"  need the security like a teddy bear from childhood or they need someone in the house.  Woman have a fear of being alone.
216410
A woman is more worried about home matters than a man. We worry about the bills, food on the table, how to send the kids to school etc.. (all of these things take money)\n \nIn comparison men worry about sex.\n\nThat is why women seem more materialistic.
203616
I think it should be a womans choice. Noone should tell them they have to or they can't. I think the adultery point you mentioned is outrageous compared to other possibilities if you are taking that angle. They do not cover their face to get away with adultery, but for religios and moral reasons. If they could get away with adultery, who's to say they could not get away with robbing a store? Or kidnapping a child? Or murder? But I honestly feel like none of these are serious issues to be concerned with, and having the right to cover your face if you want should be protected.
315230
If women were running things, there would be little or no war. Women are nurturing creatures and some are very senstive, so they wouldn't want anyone to die.
547801
They are running a terrible risk of nasty diseases, for one thing.  Also, there is the issue of self-respect.  A woman in such a situation cannot believe she will be respected by any of the men involved.  If she's not getting paid for it, there's no sense to it.  If she is getting paid for it, then I cannot comment, except to hope that she's using protection and getting tested regularly.
198634
YOu show an awareness of the reason for your discomfort with women.  It could also be a fear of intimacy which is quite common especially if you had some kind of abuse as a child. It is a subconcious fear that you may be hurt somehow. I don't know how you would resolve this without some regular talk therapy. You need to explore it a lot each day and write your thoughts about it in a journal you keep to hlep you figure out and understnad it. Once you understand it completely it will lose its hold on you and you can gradually overcome it.
1051270
DON'T MESS UP MY BODY'S SYSTEM\nJUST WEAR GOOD PROTECTION LIKE TAMPONS AND/OR PADS
609855
I don't know that I would say they scare me off, but they did tend to put me on the "hotseat" so to speak. It may be an instinctive or self-ego defeating impression we have of ourselves, but most men see strong willed, and intelligent women as a type of threat. We have spent so much time in the role as the "stronger sex" we have trouble finding ourselves in the passenger seat. BUT, what we males tend to forget is that women don't have the same tendency to control, so much as not let themselves BE controlled. A smart, strong willed man is more likely to try to control his female counter-part, while a smart, strong willed woman simply takes a stand and doesn't let anyone push her around. Much different case. So, I personally have found that where I had once felt defensive, I am now much more comfortable and secure in myself, so I don't feel as threatened as I once did. I believe you will most likely find that the younger generation is more inclined to be put off than the older, matured generation.
818312
Best for men - We're protectors. We're taught to protect our mothers, sisters, aunt, female cousins, etc. No matter what age we are.\nWorst for men - Our need for sex. We will get ourselves in so much trouble over getting some. We are ruled by sex. We seem so powerless.
671246
Women have MANY, MANY strengths.\n\nHowever, their weaknesses are critical and legendary.\n\n\n1)  Women want to be like men too much. They feel insecure when they appear to be "weak" and then over-compensate when they feel powerful. They want what men want....instead of re-inventing the world of business and culture to make it truly better.\n\n2)  They enslave themselves in debt, bad choices and bad relationships so that they strangle their ability to be self-sufficient at a younger age.\n\n3)  They coerce their daughters into being the same helpless victims that they, themselves, have become. They do not lead by example. They whine and cry......the daughters have to recreate the "revolution" every new generation.\n\n\nWomen are not ready for equal rights until they accept the responsibility to enter the draft in wartime. Female politicians act so much like their male counterparts it makes me sick. Women sacrifice the very family they say they NEED/want so they can work all day for money.....just like their "missing" fathers did when they were growing up.\n\n\nI trust women to fix this screwed-up world.....but I see pathetic leadership and an agenda that is so PC or gay/feminist it makes me shudder.\n\nWhere has NOW been, lately?????\n\nThey're scared as crap to be asked about women being able to vote in Afghanistan and Iraq. They're scared as crap to be asked about the logical "next step" in the abortion rights arena......India and China aborting 95% of their female babies......using cheap ultra-sound technology to target fetuses with no penis. They are afraid to comment on the women in the draft issue during a war on terror. They haven't stepped up on Fox News to debate young girls' rights to drink, gamble and do drugs in Aruba for high school graduation.\n\n\nCome on girls !!!!!!!!\n\n\nPlease help me out here. The men have screwed around and messed things up long enough. You can do a better job than your bra-burning predecessors did in the 60's. You CAN learn by their mistakes.\n\nChange the world. You have the strength and internal compass to do it.
562943
women on the frontlines should be as a last resort. It is very difficult for many men to concentrate when women are around and our "protect the woman" program runs in our brain, which could cause some fatal errors in judgement and this is not the womens fault, it is just human nature.Support roles are very important because a current army can not win for very long without the support troops.
333489
"men have a natural desire to protect women and their presence in combat will get men killed!" [your quote]\n\nI am a 52 year old ♀ who grew up in the 50's & 60's, with the old philosophies & the women's lib philosophies & I am totally against women in combat.  Not only does your quote perfectly coin it, but I'm firmly of the concurrence that it can't help but create sexual tensions, which distract/undermine military efforts....AMEN BROTHER!!!!!!!!!!!!
164674
When your have the house to yourself so nobody can catch you, I mean interrupt (LOL! just kidding).\n\nSafe? It depends on what want to be safe from.  Diseases, there are many and not only strangers carry them, people you know may have them.  "Protection" (and I don't mean guns) works but not always, there's always a chance something could go wrong.\n\nSafe from just being used? Heartbreak?  As far as that's concerned the only way to be safe is to really get to know someone before you fall head over heels (easier said than done).\n\nIn my opinion what's most important is to be ready mentally, not just physically.  It's a feeling of comfort only you can give yourself.  Nobody should talk you into it or pressure you.  You will know when the time is right.  I hope I was helpful!
94705
No, females are strong in many ways and don't need handled with kid gloves at all.  The myth of the weak female that needs protected is just that, a myth.  We are quite strong otherwise we wouldn't be able to give birth.
472910
Hormones!This gives us [as women] a chance to pamper ourselves for a few days and not feel guilty about it! \nWatch movies and ask someone to make you dinner! :)