Why are women shown more empathy in a relationship and not men?

[TabulaRasa]

Originally Posted by Jello071

Good question. It also seems that males get lower grades than females in school for the same quality of work.

Not really.

There aren't separate grading scales or rubrics for a given assignment that take sex into account. You can argue (though not necessarily prove)that certain teaching methods may favor stereotypically "female" styles of learning over stereotypically "male" styles, but if you are going to argue that identical quality of work is assessed with different criteria depending on student sex, you're going to need to show how quality is assessed to begin with, have control groups with blind experiments For comparison, etc.

Males also get insulted in person more than females.

Data? Criteria?

[leftcoastie]

Geez...
Let's all make blanketed assumptions and state negative generalities and apply 'em to all men and women based on gender—Oh wait. Never mind, y'all are doing that now, huh?

[TMBGBlueCanary]

Originally Posted by Europeanflava

It seems to me like women are shown more empathy in relationships than men. Why is this? Men's feelings matter too right?

If the women you are dating aren't showing you empathy like you are to them, dump them... it's not worth your time. I say the same for women dating men who lack empathy. Those kind of people are self centered and selfish. Who wants that in a relationship?

Now if you are talking about other people showing empathy towards others, that a whole different ball of wax. Everyone is different and you can't control how other people feel about you. Plus there are generational issues as well. The only thing any of us can do is be more empathic towards each other, regardless of gender. Start with the only thing you can change, yourself.

[Frayzer]

Originally Posted by Europeanflava

It seems to me like women are shown more empathy in relationships than men. Why is this? Men's feelings matter too right?

Of course not, men are monsters.