How Men and Women Lie

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"Truth is beautiful without doubt, but so are lies":

Comparison and contrast about how men and women lie

Many critics have tried to distinguish who lies more, men or women. Considering the arguments I read there is no proof of who lies more. Both sexes usually lie to protect themselves, to cover up for somebody else, or to stabilize their image. However, men and women lie differently reasons of lying in different situations. Therefore, it is impossible to say who lies more, men or women.

Both men and women lie to protect themselves or others, but they do so in different ways. Some of them think that the truth will not sound good, so they lie to their friends, family, and co-workers. Those who think that way, have something on their mind that makes them either scared, or uncomfortable about what they have to say. Overall, they prefer to lie to protect themselves and make themselves feel better.

The protective lie is something that both men and women use many times but in different ways. Men lie to protect themselves at work about their family and their accomplishments. Usually he says how amazing his family members are and how wonderful everything is between each other. Regularly he says that because he does not want people to know or even think that he has any problems. Women however mostly lie to protect their children about money issues or about their feelings. Most of all, both men and women lie about relationships with each other. Individually men and women lie about the relationship to make

fewer fights and less argument. They usually lie about events that occurred to them when they were away from each other to stay out of fight. For example woman could get some strangers

phone number to call him som...

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...r. People either make these lies to be more secure, be protective or even because they just want to stabilize their images. Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

Works Cited

Kathllen Kelleher, The truth about lying: "Why we do it and when it might be ok"

Los Angeles Times (3-10-98), 27 Aug. 2004. http://www.mta.net/other_info/ethics/headlines/headlines/truth_about_lying.htm

Rebecca Raphael, the Primetime report originally aired on. "You may lie more often than you realize", ABCNEWS.com March 15, 2001, 27 Aug. 2004 http://abcnews.go.com/sections/primetime/2020/PRIMETIME_010315_lying_feature.html

Judith Viorst. "The truth about lying," "The 75 stories book" 1981

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