Comments on: why i like men.

By: Former Male Friend

Former Male Friend — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:35:51 +0000

Nothing like searching the names of old friends to see where they are at these days and come accross this blog. I would like to think I was one of those former high school male friends. Happy to see you are doing well these days. Peace!!

By: damnatory

damnatory — Wed, 28 May 2008 14:45:35 +0000

damnatory says : I absolutely agree with this !

By: Andy Baio

Andy Baio — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:45:28 +0000

But you’re right. While women aren’t going out of their way to make your life worse, men will go out of their way to make your life better. So you definitely have the right strategy. If a women won’t help, hang up and call again until you get a man on the line.

By: Andy Baio

Andy Baio — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:42:21 +0000

Here’s a good review of the academic studies on the subject. The most relevant quote:

“The means for the male subjects’ and the female subjects’ sex-of-victim/requester effect sizes showed that the men were significantly more likely to help women than other men, whereas the women were about as likely to help women or men… The means for the sex-of-subject effect sizes elicited by the male and female victims or requesters showed that the men were equally likely to receive help from women and men, whereas the women were more likely to receive help from men.”

So, it doesn’t sound like anyone’s yet proven a reverse correlation between female helpers and female victims.

By: Andy Baio

Andy Baio — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:31:33 +0000

Funny, Ami has mentioned the same problem in the past. But I’ve never noticed it myself… I usually get treated the same by women or men. I wouldn’t be surprised if this effect could be proven… I suspect that the male customer support people are trying to help the female in distress, while the female support people have no such instinctual need.

(Also, unrelated, it’s “voila,” not “walla.” That made me giggle.)