Why is it potrayed everywhere that men is the one who should propose for marriage ?

It's just tradition. I proposed to my ex, and he accepted that day.Why is it potrayed everywhere that men is the one who should propose for marriage ?
What do portrayals matter, really, in society? If I am to discount the importance of how women are portrayed in advertising - suggesting that women are responsible for thinking for themselves....then it is equally important for men to think for themselves and not be influenced by the media's portrayal of 'the proposal'...Why is it potrayed everywhere that men is the one who should propose for marriage ?
Women proposed to me in 1976, 1978, 1980, 1984, and I proposed to my first wife in 1986. My wife proposed to me in 2005.





So, I don't think this has been true, at least in my life over the last 30 years, and it hasn't been true in the lives of my friends over the same time period. I think that notion mostly went away 40 or 50 years ago.
It's a tradition that has been kept alive and hardly anyone changed it.





Personally I proposed to my husband on christmas day, got down on my knee and said 'Would you do me the honour' etc.





I also know a lot of women that did the same, it's becomming more popular i nthe UK.





Same with surnames, we personalyl both changed our names to a completely new merged name.
Its been tradition.





Personally i would like to see more women proposing rather than just saying they want to get married and still expect the guy to get on one knee and pop the question. There are no rules that say men have to propose, cause women are just as capable.


















Because once upon a time, women had no rights, and marriage was the transfer of her as her father's property to her prospective husband's property. It takes a while to throw off the shackles of ';tradition.';
It's not so much that way anymore, unless the couple are tradtional.


I proposed to my boyfriend 6 years ago and I tell you what, it was very nerve-wracking! Now I know how guys feel about it.


He didn't want an engagement ring though, lol.
We talked about getting married before my husband propose and i knew he was going to do it. He did it cause he wants to.





Mystic - Its not sexist, most women get on their knees for their men in different circumstances ;)
Would you stop biting my style. As for the answer to your question,


yes the man should step up to the plate. And ask the woman for


her hand in marriage. Why ? Because that is the way it is............
It's still considered ';traditional';





I was the proposer.......sort of.





Me:';When I turn 18, we should get married';


Him:';Okay';





Ahhh...romance.
Because the way women lay down the ultimatum is something like this ,'; You'll propose by November 14th Or Else ! ';





It's tradition.
LOL ! I see/hear it the other way around. I see more women than men, that accuse the other gender of commitment-phobia.
Actually my sunday school teacher proposed to her husband; said that she was as nervous as all get out. He accepted and they had two boys; the two boys are all grown up, the oldest was in my same grade.
Woman supposedly is the weaker of the species. Try using the Spell Checker feature.
Not everywhere... on Gilmore Girls (a show with a strong female lead character) she proposed to the guy.
shakti is the divine feminine force of the universe , now it just doesn't do that the goddess does the asking :)
Because it reflects what the majority of the population wants and enjoys =o)