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Is a woman without a man like a fish out of water?

Women only: Please take my quiz. No names, just your age and your country of origin. I am writing a book. 1. On a scale from 1-10, rate how much you want to have a husband, now or in the future, where 1 means you don’t want a husband and 10 means you would do almost anything to get a husband. 2. On a scale from 1-10, rate how badly you would feel if you never got married, where 1 means you would be fine with no husband and 10 means no husband would ruin your life. 3. Do you sometimes wear sexy but uncomfortable shoes or clothing? 4. Have you had any kind of cosmetic surgery? 5. Have you dieted too much? 6. Have you had sex when you didn’t want to? 7. Have you had an abortion? How many? 8. Does your man ever verbally humiliate you? 9. Does your man ever strike you in anger? 10. Has your man ever cheated on you? Did you take him back? 11. Has your man ever sexually or physically abused your children or grandchildren? Did you stay with him? Thanks so much. Thank you so much for your answers. You’re very kind to take the time and give it the thought that you did. Although I tried to make the questions morally neutral, I seem to have caused some animosity. Just to clarify, I am a rabid feminist and I hate the suffering and abuse of women and children at the hands of their intimate partners. I hate it. The numbers are staggering worldwide and it has been so throughout recorded history. It appears from your answers that you are among the majority of women who are not hell bent to have a man. But, to some women, any man is better than none. Those women and their children are at risk for abuse. Again, thank you for your time and consideration. I will take your advice and post this on a different board.

Public Comments

  1. 1- 3 2-1 3-hell no 4-hell no 5-nope 6-yes ex hubby used to force it 7-never 8-f*ck no 9-he would be dead if he did 10-no 11-no no man has the power to hurt me anymore,,, thanks to my ex hubby who did.
  2. I'm sorry, but I refuse to take your quiz. I think this is a totally inappropriate forum for such questioning and from your initial question, you seem to believe that a women cannot survive without a man. Wrong.
  3. What the hell?!!!
  4. 23 from South Africa 1____Rate 5 2____Rate 4 3____Yes 4____No 5____Never - never did 6____Yes 7____None 8____No 9____Never 10___No 11___No Pleasure - It's your book, I don't understand these questions. But Good Luck!
  5. 1. 5 2. 5 3. Not excruciatingly uncomfortable. I usually try to balance sex appeal and comfort. It's not very sexy to be grimacing in pain. 4. No. 5. I eat healthy. I never diet. 6.No. 7. No but I'm glad I have the choice. 8. No. I would leave him if he did. 9. No- " " 10. No. " " 11. No. I would leave him AND press charges if he did. You're welcome. (Oh and I'm 24)
  6. 1.** 8 **- I love my husband and can't imagine my life without him, but if something happened to him, I think I would be fine alone. 2.**5** 3.No!! 4.No 5.Yes, to no avail! 6. Yes, but rarely. 7.No!! 8.No 9.NOOO!! 10.No, not to my knowledge. 11.NO WAY!!!
  7. No, you under water is like a fish outta water. [My "X" chromosome wrote that]
  8. no we are like free fish inthe water swimming free and happy
  9. Is a fish out of water like a woman without a man? Is a diver without air like a child without a mother? Is an astronaut in space like a bird in the ocean?
  10. We can not live alone, man and woman were created to stay together, imagine a world without a mens, or without a womans, every one of us are in search of our happiness, and one of the biggest happines is love, Unfortunetly the society who most people think is right, they are wrong, if not why there are so many divorces? human been go to universities to learn a proffesion, but no body teach us the science of love and that is why we think if we can live alone, specially womans, NO we can't live alone, we are designed to complete the law of polarity, and learn together one of the most beautiful experience, LOVE
  11. 1) 7 2) 5 3) no 4) no 5) no 6) yes 7) no 8) once & I've never let him forget it 9) never 10) no 11) no 43 years old from the US
  12. First off, let me say that I like the phrasing of your original question. Some of the younger folks may not have heard the 2nd-wave feminist phrase, "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle," which was intended to convey the then-radical (probably still-radical) notion that a man is unnecessary/irrelevent to any woman's happiness. So...that much having been said. I can tell you my age and country of origin. But there is no way that I know of to register with Yahoo Answers without at least having a Yahoo ID. Some people choose to disclose a lot about themselves (whether it's true or not), some disclose nothing whatsoever (they're often the spammers or the "playahs"), and some people disclose a lot of TRUE info--and I happen to be one of the latter. So I'm not "anonymous" on Yahoo. I'm 54 and from the USA. 1-1 2-1 3-No. However, I used to when I was in my 20s. 4-Yes. I had a little bit of lipo done on my (former) double chin over 10 years ago. I'm STILL very happy with the results, even though middle age is starting to bring on a bit of a "turkey wattle" on my neck. It made a huge improvement in my looks, was not very painful, was not terribly expensive, and was done with local anaesthesia in the dermatologist's office. 5-YES! I am totally convinced that dieting MAKES YOU FAT IN THE LONG RUN and that if I'd never dieted that I'd weigh 50-60 pounds less today. I have not dieted in almost 20 years, I eat all I want, and I don't gain weight any longer. However, my weight stabilized at a VERY HIGH LEVEL. I just decided to live with being obese and to never, ever diet again. 6-No. But then I used to want to have sex a lot when I was younger, so I rarely said, "No." Is it possible that some of the guys I slept with might nave been rapists under other circumstances? I don't like to think about that, but it's a possibility. When you have a lot of casual sex, you don't necessarily know all of your partners terribly well. 7-I have never been pregnant. But if I HAD gotten pregnant, I would have done everything in my power to have obtained an abortion. I was fortunate, in that doctors were still willing to sterilize people who hadn't had any children back when I got it done at the age of 21. That's probably a large part of the reason why I didn't have to go through the horror of having a contraceptive failure and having to deal with its aftermath. 8-I don't have a man. Some of the guys I've been with in the past have done that. Obviously, I'm not still associating with them now. 9-I don't have a man. But one did backhand me across the face once. Another one picked me up (and I weighed more than him, too!) and slammed me against a wall once. Another one verbally threatened me and my immediate family, and I am convinced that he was capable of extreme physical violence and had assaulted people in his past. I've since learned to avoid substance abusers and/or angry jerks. And I've learned to be a LOT more-discriminating about the sorts of people with whom I choose to associate. Being that way has required becoming a lot less-liberal and a lot more judgmental and intolerant than I'd been in my youth. 10-That's hardly relevent in my case. Is it "cheating" if you're in an "open relationship"? Let's just say that I've had many relationships where we both "slept around." 11-No.
  13. I live in the US and am young. 1. 8 or 7 2. 6 or 7 3. No 4. No 5 No 6 No 7 No 8 No 9 No 10 No 11 No
  14. 20/. USA First Q- hell no. women sont need men for survival. Think about lesbians, and single parent homes.. I tend to think it's more of the oposite. since men dont know how to cook and clean for themselvesm, they need someone 2 do it 4 them. either their mom or a wife, which makes them more dependent. so its the opposite. 1. 4 2. 2.5 3. Nope.Ocasionally shoes. 4. Hell no. 5. Nope. Happy with my body 6. a couple of times, but were not togethwer n e more. 7. Nope. 8. Hell no. He wouldnt live to talk about it either. 10. Nope. 11. NO! Thanks so much. no problem/
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