Beliefs About Men
Joseph McNair (1998)
Read each statement thoughtfully, and register the strength of your feeling about each item as it pertains to your beliefs. If you don't know what some of the words mean, look them up. Make sure you understand what you are agree or disagreeing with. This survey is for discussion purposes only. Portions of this survey were adapted from Mismeasure of Woman by Carole Tavris, 1992. Copyright © 1996 Joseph D. McNair.
| Name | Ethnicity |
| Gender: Male Female | Nationality |
| Age: 20 and under 20-3030-40 Over 40 | Occupation |
Check the appropriate box for each statement that corresponds to your attitude toward that particular statement.
SA-Strongly Agree, A-Agree, U-Uncertain, D-Disagree, SD-Strongly Disagree
1. Male humor is more often than not gross or offensive.
SA A U D SD
2. Men are unable to respond appropriately to the feelings and needs of others.
SA A U D SD
3. Men overvalue their importance and achievements while undervaluing the importance and achievements of women.
SA A U D SD
4. Men believe that they are entitled to the services of any woman with whom they are associated
SA A U D SD
5. Men are unable to identify and express their feelings or to know how other people feel.
SA A U D SD
6. Men believe that women enjoy suffering.
SA A U D SD
7. Men as adults tend to be too conformist (prone to follow society's norms and mores without question).
SA A U D SD
8. Men need to underscore their importance by appearing with women who are submissive, conventionally attractive, younger, shorter and make less money than them.
SA A U D SD
9. Men believe that the bad things that happen to them are for the most part caused by women
SA A U D
10. Men are by nature more logical than women
SA A U D SD
11.Men don't like to talk about their problems.
SA A U D SD
12. Men don't like being told what to do.
SA A U D SD
13. Men believe that women like to be ordered around.
SA A U D SD
14. Men believe that the good things that happen to them are the results of their efforts and abilities
SA A U D SD
15. Men are preoccupied with the things that can help them express power.
SA A U D SD
16. Men are superior and naturally superordinate to women
SA A U D SD
17. Men are unable to establish and maintain close relationships.
SA A U D SD
18. Men believe that sexual and aggressive impulses are uncontrollable in all males.
SA A U D SD
19. Men have a pathological need for flattery about the size of their genitals.
SA A U D SD
20. Battering by men is a major cause of injury to women.
SA A U D SD
21.Men have a pathological need for flattery about their sexual performance.
SA A U D SD
22. Men during sexual encounters with women believe that women mean "yes" when they say "no."
SA A U D SD
23. Men during sexual encounters with women believe that women mean "yes" when they say "no."
SA A U D SD
24. Men during sexual encounters with women believe that women mean "yes" when they say "no."
SA A U D SD
25. Male promiscuity is rooted in the fear of being unable to pass on their genetic legacy they never know for sure if they are the father of their children.
SA A U D SD
26. It is easier to be a man than to be a woman
SA A U D SD
27. Men tend to be unreasonably threatened by intelligent women.
SA A U D SD
28. Men are more concerned with having a successful career than are women.
SA A U D SD
29. Men use power, silence, withdrawal, or avoidance rather than negotiation in coping with conflict.
SA A U D SD
30. Men should be excluded from certain traditional female occupations such as nurses, secretaries, preschool and early elementary school teachers.
SA A U D SD
31. Men are incapable of raising children without the guiding hand of a woman.
SA A U D SD
32. Men are more likely than women to physically or sexually abuse children.
SA A U D SD
33. There is no difference in the way men and women develop.
SA A U D SD
34. Men perceive reality differently than women.
SA A U D SD
35. A man is unlikely to think that he is committing rape if the woman he forces is his wife, his date or his acquaintance especially if the act is not accompanied by another form of violence.
SA A U D SD
36. The tendency to value power, competency, efficiency and achievement is natural in men.
SA A U D SD
37. The tendency to base moral codes on rational principles is natural in men.
SA A U D SD
38. Men are by nature more moral than women
SA A U D SD
39. Male career paths are too narrow. They don't enjoy the benefits of a variety of different employment experiences.
SA A U D SD
40. Men need to organize to protect against the steady encroachment of their rights.
SA A U D SD
41. Men make moral decisions based on rational principles.
SA A U D SD
42. Men are more conceited than women.
SA A U D SD
43. Men are less likely than women to accuse and attack others when they are unhappy.
SA A U D SD
44. Men don't appreciate unsolicited advice or suggestions because they feel it to be a reflection on their competence; their ability to get things done.
SA A U D SD
45. Men, generally, do not have mood changes. Male emotional states are implacable and steady.
SA A U D SD