Topic: It's safe to say - gambling is a guy thing. (Read 1382 times)

Though a lot of young women of today have joined their male counterparts to start gambling, the number of men in gambling is significantly higher than that of women in gambling and that's because of the fact it is believed globally by most people that gambling is a guy thing.
Gambling is a vice that women can't handle because they aren't good in taking risk and that's why more men are gonna be continue to dominate gambling than women will do

Yeah right, when I get money every month it's women who can handle it.
Maybe it's not just you, I see some women playing gambling but it's not traditional gambling but online gambling because now some women are fond of it.

There are many other things that make gambling more male, maybe it could be their ego, maybe it's fun hoping to win big or relieve stress - actually it's the same thing but the dominance of men is greater than women.

Women can still be controlled by men if they are married, while men have every right without their wife's consent.

Aside from the fact that women in nature are not inclined to do gambling just like how men usually don't have
a talent in cooking, the gambling scene in general is a dangerous place.
I asked my female friends if there was ever a point in their life where they liked gambling and there was a person who said yes. However, she does not see herself gambling in the future anymore due to the fact that
gambling is dominated by men. If anything goes wrong, it will be hard for women to protect themselves physically.

It's the same with my officemates before. They all like using their credit cards to get cash or there's like a cult of women that agrees to overuse the credit card until it gets a higher limit so that they can buy anything with it even the expensive ones like home appliances or a newly released smartphone.  

I think women are good at handling money that's why they are not hooked on gambling games. But there are others who are not and I saw a group of ladies playing cards all day every day like there's another cult.
Anyway, regarding men, I think it's also the ego that pulls us to gamble. We love winning and I think that's how we are raised and or it's in our DNA. So winning against the house will be the best competition for us. It's not just about the money but also the fun and the risky environment of gambling.

Since gambling is not a compulsory thing that only men should do it while women being exempted, everyone should gamble as long as they are interested and willing to have fun, however, women are not that active in this aspect just as you could find a larger percentage of men don't like cooking while women does that for run, we can apply this kind of approach as well for women in gambling that only few of them finds it interesting when they have other things to always get busy on.

But gambling isn't for making money, also gambling is different to a beer and a cigarette.

Cigarette make you become more relax and reduce your stress, most of them usually need this everyday because they're working very hard. A beer, it's something that you need when you have a free time to enjoy your life.

While gambling isn't something that you're really need.

This is very reasonable and I think it is in accordance with the facts that have occurred, which basically initially gambling was only for men, or I mean on average most of those who played were men, and I say that before gambling was as popular as it is now. And nowadays gambling is like an activity that seems to be common, people seem to think that this activity is normal, it is none other than that because gambling has reached more and more people through the development of this era. I agree, and honestly for now I would not say that gambling is only men, but maybe the number of female and male gamblers is now balanced if measured, I was also quite surprised when I saw some of my female friends who turned out that they also gambled and there was one of them who fell down to leave a lot of debt, honestly I could not imagine that the impact of gambling was this hard, not seeing men or women, there are all the same, gender does not determine whether the person is a gambler or not.

Of course, there are many factors that influence and also become the reason why they, especially women, participate in gambling, a sense of interest is of course the main reason for them because of the opportunity to win, and also in my opinion the factor of their economic weakness is also very likely to be the reason. Those who do not know fully about the risks in gambling will definitely think that maybe gambling is a solution to multiply the money they bring.

Men are known to provide money for the family but women is the one's who hold/budget it. They can choose to gamble it. Some men can earn sufficient money from their jobs alone and there are some who aren't but they can still treat gambling as a source of entertainment and not a source to get additional income. It's the same on why some guys drinks a bear or buy a cigarette.

These small things can ease their tiredness from the long day/week of work. I don't see it as a problem if there are more men are involved in gambling than in women but in fact I find it good because the men or husband won't worry as gambling can sometimes cause an addiction.

Well, I will have to say that you indeed have a good point, the world have changed and still changing rapidly, maybe several years ago, we would have simply said that gambling is for men or guys alone, but today, this is no longer the case, gambling have become a general activity that knows no man or woman, any gender can engage in gambling without any form of restrictions, as long as the individual, be he or she, is comfortable and find pleasure in gambling.

In the olden days, it was actually a taboo for a woman to gamble in most communities and societies around the world, but todays, things have changed in most of this places, development and civilization have changed the narrative or stigmatization of women in gambling, and this i hope to continue even into the future.

Well for me they are the same. I mean I see women who gamble and it's not just one or two and I see that they are also addicted to gambling because they gamble every day. I can only say what I noticed from the ones I saw,
there are also women who are addicted to gambling but they just have more control than men. Yeah, I'm referring to my aunts because even though they gamble every day, they don't reach the point of being in debt, having a broken family, or anything bad. They control themselves very well.

But it is a fact that men and women must accept that men are the most dominating creatures, the phrase gender equality is bulshit, which only gives a woman to have her own rights to decide in living her life.

But the practice is that to this day even though gender equality has been accepted by the community, it seems that the habits of men who like to take big risks compared to women such as horse riding, hunting, smoking men are more dominant even what we are talking about is in gambling, men are the main consumers of gambling compared to women.

Regarding what you are talking about, it is subjective, and what I am saying is based on field fact data, and it must include the elements.

In earlier times, drinking and smoking were a guy thing, riding or racing was a guy thing, even sports were a guy thing, all financial responsibility was a guy thing, and so on. All these things change eventually, and we learned the word gender equality. Now you understand why this question is really irrelevant and inappropriate. So please stop this male-dominating attitude and be an open-minded individual. Just see a person as a person and cut that gender, race, religion, and all factors, and then you can see a human being and respect every human. It is just as simple as that.

Courage is very positively connoted and should probably not necessarily be used in the gambling environment. Maybe I am too focused on the semantics and rhetorics here, but when we talk about gambling and why it is a men's thing, courage, like courage to do good, to intervene on the streets when someone does something bad, isn't the true reason why men gamble more. I think men also have a talent to suppress the root of the evil and compensate for it by things men shouldn't be doing. Women in contrast would rather talk about an issue and not seek for compensation that harms them even more. This is not to be understood as a basic rule, more like a pattern that does allow for deviation from the norm.

Men have more courage to face the risks they will face, one of which is from a financial perspective, gambling is more popular with men, some people hope that by gambling they can double the money they have in a short time.  Different from women, they are more detailed from a financial perspective, although some are extravagant because they like shopping, but they are not so interested in gambling because they are more concerned about the risks they will face.

Not only do many men gamble for financial responsibility but greed works in them there are many ways to deal with financial responsibility. It is true that men are more likely to have gambling problems than women but this disparity appears to have narrowed in recent years as men are more attracted to strategic forms of gambling such as card games or sports betting high levels of gambling may increase men's risk of gaming addiction. Men may be more prone to problem gambling than women due to their socialization.

Making adjustments must be done so that we can find out what suits us. And when they have lost several times, their emotions will increase along with losing money in gambling. That makes them lose control and not make adjustments for the next game so they will only experience the same result in the next game. And that will only cause a worse gambling addiction because they never thought about it before. Meanwhile, when his emotions increase, it will affect his mentality too, making his bets not win.

well, thats a wrong mindset and I am sure if a married man gambles to try to earn extra money I am sure he has a bad mindset and does not understand how gambling works. so they think that good luck quickly comes from gambling, even though the way gambling works always benefits the gambling owner and beats the user.
and if the man understood how this works there would be no way he would try occasionally to increase his income from gambling and that I consider a very bad mindset and in the long run I am sure he will be addicted.

That is like that because we still have dis-balance in jobs salaries where men still get paid more and normally women are left with no choice but to borrow money,that is also what happens in my city,lately though things are changing for the better as more and more women are getting paid well enough.

Gambling is a guy thing yeah but when women get hooked to it they make guys gambling like amateurs compared to them as women when entered in something they prefer to go further deep down and they don't usually stop so there is this exception to the rule as they say,which makes women gamblers more dangerous when they are hooked to it.

Men likes taking more risks than women and women likes borrowing money, taking loans than men, sorry if any female on here is hurt by this, I am just saying this based on my surroundings, I have seen most women and ladies in general taking loans and even living base on loan than men, I think at this rate it's balanced to me.

The reason why I like female is they know when to stop, once things starts getting out of hand they aren't going back, there is no 'be like a real man' in their dictionary, if a female lost a lot of money in gambling she will easily break free from gambling compare to a man, this gender called men are so stubborn and they never know when to quit.

Female are also into gaming but I accept with OP, that gambling is mostly a guy thing because men have too much responsibility to carry than women, this is also the reason why they are pushed or force to take risks.

It is also possible that women gamble behind the scenes, meaning we never know who is gambling at the back of the computer screen. It can be a man or it can be a woman too. Yes, only the majority of gamblers are men, but since online gambling has evolved, nothing can be said with certainty.

Maybe those casinos that are very strict in maintaining the KYC data can give first hand information as to what numbers of the gamblers are registered as male gamblers and what numbers are registered as female gamblers.

In general, since we see male gamblers dominating in the physical casino, we believe that female gamblers are very low in number.