Should women propose marriage?

Given that tradition is ever changing, should women ever propose marriage? Or is it the man's duty? Women, if you were in a long term relationship and you wanted to be engaged and your man had not yet asked, would you feel comfortable proposing to your man? Men, would you be comfortable if your woman proposed to you? Discuss.

 

I think it would be okay if women did that but id be dissapointed if my woman proposed to me because id want to be the one who proposed

 

pretty sure all lesbians will agree with me when i say that in today's liberal society is absolutely ok for a woman to propose marriage... i do see a certain 'redneck' element that will disagree

 

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Sure why not.

 

Git R Done

 

No

 

Sure they can do whatever they want. If my girl did though, well it would be about time to smackabitch.

 

So out of seven men, 5 say yes, one says no, another says yes but he would smack his 'bitch' if she did so.

 

i wouldn't say "should" because that implies some sort of obligation to do so.

i don't see a problem with it if she wants to though. of course, there's certain men who might be offended by it, but if she's asking him to marry her, she should know that about him by now.

 

I've been engaged 3 times. The first 2 I proposed. The last one she did. I'm still together with the one who proposed to me. Hey it's the 21st fucking century, and I'm all for equality.

Stay Brown,
Rev J

 

i'd choose the third option, but i'm not a woman. like if the guys takin a good while, then yeah go for it. but the girls gotta wait a bit cuz you might embarrass him.

good thing i'll never have to deal with this problem. one reason why gayness makes senseness.

 

I suppose gay couples avoid the traditional stigma of who proposes.

 

This.

 

If society openly allowed women to propose (or even encouraged it), it would sure take a load of pressure off the man. I think that women should be allowed to propose. If she really sees it and she's aching for her man to propose to her and he never does, she should have every reason to take matters into her own hands.

Whats funny is that 30 years ago or more, the man was required to make all the approaches and decisions in the relationship. Women were never allowed to ask men out. What's worse is that the boyfriend was the only one who was supposed to call the girlfriend on the phone. Today, that doesn't make any sense at all.

I think society puts a lot of pressure on men to make all the approaches and decisions while the woman is supposed to accept the offers or turn them down. But today, more women are asking out men, women sometimes pay the bills on the date despite the man's offer to pay. Gender roles are equalizing, and I like the direction society is going in this regard.

 

In my experience, it's always been the guy who's been afraid of commitment, so I probably wouldn't propose. But I wouldn't frown on anyone else that did, to each her own.

 

I really don't know why someone would care who proposed, unless you feel it makes you less of a man or it's less romantic or something equally stupid.

 

This. I would probably feel happy more than anything else.

 

so we've determined that rev jc's shouldn't propose at least...

 

I have rejection issues, so I'd be terrified of proposing, because he might reject me. For example, even if we had been in an 8 year relationship and have talked about it and have had plans of marriage (or civil partnership) and kids for years, I'd still feel weird asking, just incase.