Dennis Prenger's Essay 'What Do Women Want?'

What A Woman Wants In Dennis Prenger’s article What Do Women Want? He portrays the idea that the thing men want most is to be admired and what women want most is to be loved by the man they admire. He also says that even feminists are most happy when they’re in a happy marriage to an admirable man. Admiring one’s husband does not make him a lord and her his serf, it makes her fortunate. He implies that young girls are taught that admiring their man is considered “sexist” in today’s society and that it makes the relationship unequal. It’s getting hard for women to even admit to themselves that they want to be loved by a man they admire. Strength is a very important quality for a man to have, and that’s one quality women look for in men. Not always masculine strength, but “exhibiting strength in the outer world and at home as a husband and father.” In order for a man to be admired by his wife he must stand up for what’s right and what he believes in. That’s the kind of strength that most women look for in men, not just a man who will say “Yes, dear” to everything. …show more content…
No woman is going to say “I want a disloyal and dishonest man” because that is simply a lie. No woman in her right mind wants to spend the rest of her life or raise her babies with a man that lies to her everyday. Dennis Prenger says that a strong man without integrity would make a good crook, and he’s right. A strong, dishonest man can use his strength for doing dishonest things. Integrity is more important than strength to me because you can gain strength but getting out of the habit of lying and being disloyal is a harder habit to break once a person makes it apart of their everyday